Old Fashioned 7 Up Cake Recipes

7 UP POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325 F.
• Generously grease and lightly flour a bundt pan. Set aside.
• In a large bowl, cream together butter, shortening and sugar.
• Mix in the eggs one at a time.
• Fold in the vanilla extract and lemon extract.
• Fold in the lemon zest and lime zest.
• Gradually add in the flour and salt and mix until combined.
• Mix in the heavy whipping cream and 7-up until well combined and batter is fluffy.
• Spoon batter into bundt pan.
• Bake for 1 hour and 10-15 minutes (check on it after the 1 hour mark) or until knife inserted into middle comes out clean.
• Let cake sit in pan until pan is warm to the touch.
• Remove from pan and place on a cooling rack until completely cooled.
• Drizzle with 7-up glaze if desired.

7 UP® CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Generously grease a fluted tube pan (such as Bundt®).
• Beat white sugar and butter together in a bowl using an electric mixer until creamy and smooth; add eggs, 1 at a time, mixing well after each addition. Stir flour, 1 cup at a time, blending well after each addition until batter is smooth; stir in lemon extract. Mix lemon-lime beverage into batter and pour into the prepared pan.
• Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted in the center of the cake comes out clean, about 1 hour 15 minutes. Remove cake from pan immediately.
• Beat confectioners' sugar, milk, and vanilla extract together in a bowl using an electric mixer on medium until glaze is smooth. Pour glaze over warm cake.

CLASSIC 7-UP POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Set oven to 300 degrees F.
• Grease and flour a 10" tube pan.
• In a large bowl combine butter, shortening, 3 cups sugar (use only 3 cups sugar) vanilla and almond extract; beat using an electric mixer until light and fluffy (about 5 minutes).
• Sift the flour and salt together.
• Add eggs, 7-up, and the flour mixture to the butter mixture, using the following directions:.
• This method must be followed; add 1 egg in at a time; then add a bit of Seven-Up, then a bit of the flour mixture, then a bit more of Seven-Up; repeat until all the eggs, flour mixture and 1 cup Seven-Up is used up (you will use the remaining 1/4 cup for glaze).
• Spoon mixture into prepared baking pan.
• Bake at 300 degrees for 1 hour and 40 minutes, or until cake tests done.
• Cool in pan on a wire rack for 10 minutes.
• Remove from pan.
• Mix the remaining 1/2 cup sugar and the 1/4 cup Seven-Up soda.
• Spread the glaze mix over cake.