Actually, this is really a pound cake, but it tastes so good!! Buttery & lemony!!! It only requires 6 to 7 ingredients.
It's kind of heavy & dense, as most pound cakes usually are. Careful preparation and precise measurement is key to a successful product that you'll want to make again and again!
3 sticks butter softened at room temp.
3 cups sugar.
5 or 6 eggs at room temp.
3 cups sifted flour*.
1 cup 7-Up.
1 teaspoon pure lemon extract.
1 teaspoon lemon zest (optonal).
Preheat oven to about 325 degrees.
Grease a 10-inch tube pan and dust with flour, or use a cooking spray designed for baking only and coat interior of pan evenly. Set aside.
Using electric mixer, cream butter on medium speed until it is smooth, shiny and almost opague, about the color and consistancy of mayonaise. Add sugar and continue beating until smooth, light and fluffy, scraping bowl periodically.
Add lemon extract, lemon zest if desired, then add eggs one at a time, beating thoroughly after each.
Gadually add flour in about three stages until it is all incorporated. Reduce speed of mixer to low.
Slowly add 7-Up. Mix well on low speed.
Pour batter into prepared tube pan. Tap pan lightly on surface once or twice to remove any air pockets that might have formed in batter during pouring.
Move rack in oven to lower third. Bake cake in oven for about 90 minutes or until toothpick or cake tester inserted in center comes out clean and dry with only a few crumbs on it.
Cool cake in pan on wire rack for 15 minutes. Invert pan and remove cake. Continue cooling it on rack until just barely warm. Enjoy!
*Do NOT use self-rising flour in this recipe. It will be a disaster!!
~~~~~~~~~~~~
An important note;
In order to get that real Southern-style down-home buttery lemony goodness, in cakes that the South is widely & very famous for, please do not substitute margerine and imitation lemon extract in place of the real thing. It won't work and you will NOT get that taditional buttery lemony flavor!
You might just as well not bother making it until you have the real things for it.
Attached Images
Reply With Quote
Originally Posted by brigid
