7-Up Pound Cake

Doesn't it look delicious?  It reminds me of a pound cake my southern neighbor I called Aunt Dot made when I was a kid.  She called it a "soda pound cake" and through the years I have regretted never getting that recipe, so I was thrilled to have found it while surfing the internet.

These old TNT recipes that have been handed down from generation to generation are the best!

• 1-1/2 cups shortening
• 3 cups sugar
• 5 eggs
• 1 teaspoon EACH of vanilla and lemon extracts
• 3 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 cup 7-UP soft drink OR Sprite or SunDrop

Cream together the shortening and sugar. 

Add the eggs, one at a time, beating well as they are added. 

Add the extracts. 

Add the flour alternately with the 7-UP, beginning and ending with flour. 

Turn into a greased and floured tube pan and bake at 300 degrees for 1-1/2 hours or until cake tests done.



While cake bakes, prepare the glaze:

1 stick butter
2 cups sugar
1 tall can evaporated milk

Place in a saucepan and cook over low heat until thick (consistency of buttermilk), about 10 minutes. Be careful to not overcook. Pour over the cake while cake is hot.

Recipe and photo source 

Link to a similar pound cake, often called Baptist Pound Cake since it is bathed in glaze or State Fair Pound Cake since it appeared at the NC State Fair in 1981.