Description
An easy pound cake from scratch is livened up with the addition of soda pop.
Ingredients
- 1 cup butter
- ½ cup shortening
- 2 cups white sugar
- 4 eggs
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 teaspoon lemon extract
- 7 fluid ounces lemon-lime flavored carbonated beverage
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Grease and flour a 10-inch Bundt pan.
- In a large bowl
- cream together the butter
- shortening
- and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in the eggs one at a time
- then stir in the vanilla and lemon extracts. Beat in the flour alternately with the lemon-lime soda
- mixing just until incorporated.
- Pour batter into the prepared pan. Bake in the preheated oven for 70 minutes
- or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean. Allow to cool on a cake rack for 30 minutes before removing from the pan.
Prep Time: 20 mins
Cook Time: 1 hr 10 mins
Total Time: 1 hr 30 mins
Servings: 14