Old Fashioned 7-Up Pound Cake
“Old fashioned 7-Up pound cake recipe made from scratch the southern way! Velvety soft, moist and finished off with a classic 7-up glaze!”
My grandma Barb’s homemade 7-up pound cake is THE TRUTH. But mine…is better! *drops mic* Love you grandma but this 7-up pound cake is out of this world good! (No worries, she encourages a lil friendly competition every now and then : )
It still packs in all the flavor of a good old-fashioned 7-up pound cake but the texture is incredible thanks to one of my favorite pound cake ingredients, heavy whipping cream!!
I don’t think my grandmother has discovered the magic of heavy whipping cream in pound cake yet. She made a 7-up pound cake ALL.THE.TIME. when I was growing up.
Like seriously y’all there really was a 7-up pound cake made every doggone week! We ate it plain most of the time but occasionally it was drizzled with a glaze or we’d top it with fresh strawberries and cool whip.
This year was actually my first time ever making a homemade 7-up pound cake. I don’t know what took me so long.
The sweet, comforting, familiar aroma had my house smelling like vanilla, sugar, and lemons all day! This classic 7-up pound cake is a true winner! It only gets better the next day!
If you’ve never experienced a true 7-up pound cake them let me be the first to introduce you to a cake that could easily become your favorite! My little Ethan couldn’t get enough! It’s velvety soft, sweet, and bursting with a lemon-lime flavor. Adding the soda really gives this cake a great texture and flavor.
Don’t worry if you’re not a fan of 7-up because I’m not either, yet this cake is still one of my favs!
Some say that you can replace the 7-up with any kind of lemon-lime flavored soda but to many (Southerners mainly) that is an abomination and it MUST be made with 7-up. Mehh I’m not getting into that one.
Just make the cake Annie-Mae! You might just love me for it!
Watch me make this homemade 7 -Up pound cake from start to finish!
Get the Recipe: 7 Up Pound Cake
Ingredients
- 1 cup unsalted butter, softened
- 1/2 cup butter-flavored shortening
- 3 cups granulated sugar
- 5 large eggs, room temperature
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 teaspoon lemon extract
- Zest of 1 lemon
- Zest of 1 lime
- 3 cups all-purpose flour, sifted
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 cup heavy whipping cream
- 1 cup 7-Up soda
7-UP GLAZE
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 2 tablespoons 7-up
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 325 F.
- Generously grease and lightly flour a bundt pan. Set aside.
- In a large bowl, cream together butter, shortening and sugar.
- Mix in the eggs one at a time.
- Fold in the vanilla extract and lemon extract.
- Fold in the lemon zest and lime zest.
- Gradually add in the flour and salt and mix until combined.
- Mix in the heavy whipping cream and 7-up until well combined and batter is fluffy.
- Spoon batter into bundt pan.
- Bake for 1 hour and 10-15 minutes (check on it after the 1 hour mark) or until knife inserted into middle comes out clean.
- Let cake sit in pan until pan is warm to the touch.
- Remove from pan and place on a cooling rack until completely cooled.
- Drizzle with 7-up glaze if desired.
Video
Making this cake for the second time in a week! First time around, the cake “disappeared!” So many rave reviews. Love the moist inside and the delicious crust on the outside (that’s my favorite part).
This cake was AMAZING!!! It reminded me of when I was a little girl. Thank you divascancook.com for sharing.
Thank you for the recipe. This was the best 7 up pound cake I’ve ever had, I have a question can you change the soda to a sparkling wine or champagne in this recipe? Will it change the chemistry in it?
Thank you very much for this recipe! I made a few changes such as using Land O Lakes European Style Super Premium Unsalted Butter (has A Creamier Texture And Richer Flavor) and I used 2 C AP flour and 1 C Swans Down Cake Flour. The texture was BAKERY QUALITY!!! THANK YOU AGAIN!
Did you sift the AP flour and add the Swans cake flour. I want to make this for my fiancee.
I have made almost all your pound cakes , the brown sugar one, the lemon, & the butter pound cake , & yesterday I made this one and OH MY GOOOOODNESS!! It’s great oh how I love you and these recipes girl ! It’s soooo moist I ended up having to use diet 7-up but it turned out well still & I didn’t do the glaze I feel like it’s perfect without it but I love it and I thankyou for always sharing these gems
hi Diva,
i am a GritS girl, so i’ve had my share of 7 up cake. i have Not been able to make even a decent one. but, i just made this recipe for the 4th, and lemme tell you..
IT IS HANDS DOWN THE BEST!
it’s gotta be the heavy whipping cream, but it is a perfect 7up cake! the family was Thrilled, and i’ve gained 10 lbs inside of 2 days!
thank you so much! i will forever use this recipe!