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7-Up® Cake
A.K.A. Leadbutt Cake
Dense, lemony pound cake baked in a tube or bundt pan.

Submitted By: Lisa Nichols
Serves: 8
Prep. Time: 1:45

1 cup real butter
1/2 cup vegetable shortening
5 eggs
2 cups granulated sugar
3 cups all-purpose flour
1 Tbls. lemon extract
7 oz. 7-Up® soda (a little less than a cup)

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-Cream butter and shortening together.
-Add eggs, one at a time, beating after each addition.
-Sift flour and sugar together and beat into wet mixture.
-Beat in lemon extract and 7-Up®.
-Pour into greased and floured tube (angel food cake) or bundt pan.
-Bake in a 350 degree oven for 90 minutes.

this cake is the best pound cake we have ever tasted!! You must have your ingredients at room temperature. Thanks so much!
Good recipe Lisa. Keep up the good work.
my mother and i have been making this cake for over30 years it is the families favorite pound cake . we use all butter and a cup of soda my cousin uses the whole can the cake is still the best its really quick and easy oh and big\
Lisa this is the exact recipe that my grandma gave me 13 years ago. It is the BEST EVER!!!
I tried this recipe and found the cake to be a little bland. I used a a tube pan and had a real nice crunchy top.

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