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7 Up Pound Cake- So moist and delicious with light lemon lime flavor!
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4.58 from 19 votes

7 Up Pound Cake

This retro 7 Up Pound Cake is a tried and true favorite- known for it's light lemon lime flavor and for the 7 Up used in the batter! It has wonderful flavor, soft texture, and a fine crumb.
Prep Time15 minutes
Cook Time1 hour 10 minutes
Course: Dessert
Cuisine: American
Servings: 15

Ingredients

  • 3 sticks (339g) unsalted butter, softened
  • 3 cups (600g) sugar
  • 5 large eggs, room temperature (If in a hurry, place the eggs in a bowl of warm water.)
  • 3 cups (374g) all purpose flour (not self-rising)
  • zest of 1 lemon and 1 lime
  • ½ teaspoon (2g) baking powder
  • 1 cup (242g) 7 Up
  • 1 teaspoon (4g) vanilla
  • 2 teaspoons (8g) lemon extract

For the Glaze

  • 2 Cups Powdered Sugar sifted
  • 2 Tablespoons Lemon Juice
  • 1 Tablespoon Lime Juice

Decoration

  • We added a few lemon and lime slices to the top of the cake

Instructions

  • Preheat the oven to 325 degrees and grease and flour a tube pan
  • In a separate bowl add the flour, baking powder and the zest of 1 lemon and 1 lime. Whisk to blend and set aside.
  • In the bowl of your mixer, mix the butter until smooth, gradually add the sugar and mix until lightened in color and fluffy, 3 to 5 minutes.
  • Add the eggs one at a time, mixing after each egg until the yellow of the yolk has blended in.
  • Add the vanilla and lemon extract.
  • Alternately add the 7-UP and the dry ingredients to the butter, sugar, egg mixture.  Begin and end with the dry ingredients  (3 additions of dry and 2 additions of 7-up).
  • Bake at 325 degrees for 1 hour and 10 minutes or until a wooden skewer or toothpick comes out clean or with just a few crumbs attached.
  • Allow to cool in the pan for about 10 minutes before turning out.

For the Glaze

  • Add 2 cups powdered sugar, sifted to a mixing bowl.   
  • Add  2 Tablespoons lemon juice and 1 Tablespoon lime juice.  Mix with a spoon until blended and smooth. 
  • Add additional lemon juice to thin out the glaze or more powdered sugar to thicken it.  You will have approximately 1 cup of glaze.