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7Up Pound Cake

The Perfect 7Up Pound Cake - From the Queen of Soul Food Cooking

Course: Dessert
Cuisine: American

Ingredients
  

  • 3 Cups All-Purpose Flour
  • 3 Cups Sugar
  • 1-1/2 Cups Butter
  • 5 Eggs
  • 1 tsp Vanilla Extract
  • 1 tsp Lemon Extract
  • 1 Tbsp Lemon Juice
  • 3/4 Cup 7Up Soda
  • For the Glaze:
  • 1-1/2 Cups Confectioners Sugar
  • 1 Tbsp Lemon Juice
  • 2 Tbsps 7-Up Soda

Method
 

  1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees
  2. Make sure the eggs and butter are at room temperature before using.
  3. Using a stand mixer cream together the sugar and butter.
  4. Add the eggs one at a time.
  5. Add the lemon juice, lemon extract, vanilla extract and continue mixing.
  6. Alternately add the flour and 7up and continue mixing until well combined.
  7. Add the batter to the bundt pan then transfer to the preheated oven and bake for 50 minutes or until a toothpick placed near the center of the cake come out clean.
  8. After removing the cake from the oven, place it on a wire rack to cool for 15 to 20 minutes before attempting to move it from the pan.
  9. After 15 minutes remove the cake from the pan and place it on the wire rack.
  10. To make the glaze, combine the confectioners sugar, lemon juice and 7up.
  11. Drizzle over the cake the allow it to sit for 15 minutes before serving.

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