Seven-Up Cake

Seven-Up Cake

Photo by Barbara Whiting
This recipe for Seven-Up Cake is adapted from a recipe book from my mother.

Ingredients:

• 2 cubes margarine, softened
• 1/2 cup shortening
• 3 cups sugar
• 5 eggs
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 teaspoon butter flavoring (found near vanilla in grocery stores)
• 3 cup flour
• 7 oz. 7-Up

Cream margarine and shortening until fluffy. Add sugar slowly. Add eggs one at a time. Mix in vanilla and the butter flavoring. Alternately add the flour and the 7-Up. Bake in greased, floured bundt pan or 10-inch tube pan at 350 degrees for about 1 hour. If desired, glaze with powdered sugar icing (below).

Powdered Sugar Icing

• 1/2 cup powdered sugar
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
• 1-2 tablespoons water

Mix all ingredients until smooth and of desired consistency. Drizzle over cooled cake.