Isn’t it pretty? It looks like a giant donut, doesn’t it? If you keep reading, I chat a bit about the cake pan I used to make this cake. But first you need to know… this 7 Up Pound Cake is the most delicious pound cake I’ve ever eaten! The edges are perfectly crispy leading to a dense, sweet, tender cake inside. No ice cream or whipped cream or berries are needed. It’s incredible eaten as is… on its own. I’ve been telling everyone all week… you must try this cake!
Grandbaby Cakes:
This recipe comes from a baking cookbook by blogger Jocelyn Delk Adams: Grandbaby Cakes: Modern Recipes, Vintage Charm, Soulful Memories (Agate Surrey, 2015). I have been looking forward to getting my hands on this book for such a long time. Adams is a skilled baker who grew up watching her grandmother create delicious desserts. In the book you’ll find pound cakes (German Chocolate, Kentucky Brown Butter), layer cakes (Classic Yellow, Red Velvet), sheet cakes (Marble Texas, Snickerdoodle Gooey Cake), cupcakes (Roasted Raspberry, Zucchini), celebration cakes (Peach Cobbler Shortcake, Snickers Cake) and seasonal cakes (Arnold Palmer Cake, Merry Berry Christmas Cake). Grandbaby Cakes is full of great stories introducing the recipes with Southern charm mixed in. If you’re a baker, this is most definitely a book you’ll want on your cookbook shelf! I love it!
It looks so perfect, doesn’t it? I was so afraid to use this new pan for this cake. I thought FOR SURE it would stick to the little nooks and crannies everywhere. It didn’t!
Important ingredient note for this 7 Up Pound Cake:
This recipe doesn’t have a leavening agent, but it doesn’t need one. A significantly longer creaming process adds more air to the batter, giving it the lift it needs. Don’t skip this step!
Here’s the magic pan that makes this 7 Up Pound Cake look so beautiful: it’s the Nordic Ware Platinum Collection Heritage Bundt Pan. When I saw the photo of this cake in the Grandbaby Cakes cookbook, I had to have it! I rushed to order it, and I’m so glad I did. The baked cake slid out perfectly and it gave me a beautiful, perfect cake. Best purchase ever!
I wish you were here so I could give you a slice and stop eating it myself. This cake was sliced up, and I slipped the slices into zip baggies and put them all in the freezer. I thought they’d be SAFE in there… but they’re not. Turns out this cake is good enough to eat frozen too!!
Here are a few more recipes using soda pop that you might enjoy:
Cola Barbecue Sauce Coca Cola Chocolate Cake Root Beer Pulled Pork Dr. Pepper Cake Cherry Limeade Pound Cake
