Okay. So I know the whole world is on a diet now that the holidays have passed and I should have posted this recipe earlier. But copy it and tuck it away. Then, when you have your next dinner party and want something easy yet impressive and a bit out-of-the-ordinary to serve, try this 7 Up Cake with Orange Sauce.
7 UP Cake is not new. I think the recipe first circulated in the late 1960s. But this particular recipe for 7 Up Cake is a bit different (most other recipes call for lemon flavoring) and most of them don't include the Orange Sauce (I think I came up with that).
I used to make this cake and serve it with orange sauce when I was a teenager. My mother didn't particularly enjoy baking, so whenever she'd throw a dinner party I'd offer to make the dessert. She usually requested this cake with orange sauce because it was an unusual, flavorful, and elegant way to end the meal.
The cake is delicious without the orange sauce but the sauce makes it even better.
7 UP CAKE
1 c. butter, softened
1/2 c. shortening
3 c. sugar
5 eggs (at room temperature)
3 c. flour, sifted 3 times
3/4 c. 7 Up
1 tsp. vanilla extract
1/2 tsp. butternut flavoring
Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
Cream butter, shortening, and sugar together. Add eggs, one at a time, and beat well. Add sifted flour and 7 Up (alternately), beating well. Add vanilla extract and butternut flavoring. Mix well. Pour into greased bundt pan or angel food tube pan and bake for 1 hour and 15 minutes, or until toothpick inserted in center of cake comes out clean.
Let the cake completely cool before serving.
ORANGE SAUCE
2 c. powdered sugar
1/4 c. orange juice (more or less)
Put powdered sugar in a saucepan. Add enough orange juice to make a paste. Heat the mixture until the powdered sugar dissolves and the paste becomes more of a sauce. Add a little more orange juice, if needed.
Pour a tablespoon or so of warm Orange Sauce over each slice of cake right before serving or put the orange sauce in a heat resistant pitcher and let everyone pour the sauce over their slice of cake themselves.
"You can't have your cake and eat it too." - Proverb
1 comment:
WHERE CAN I PURCHASE "BUTTERNUT" FLAVORING? MY GRANDMOTHER MADE THIS CAKE FOR US WHEN I WAS SMALL BUT THE ONLY FLAVORING I HAVE BEEN ABLE TO FIND IS "VANILLA, BUTTER & NUT". THIS IS NOT WHAT SHE USED.
HER'S WAS "THICK RED" FLAVORING. DO YOU KNOW THIS KIND? PLEASE ANSWERE SOONEST, WE ARE TO MAKE MY DAUGHTERS WEDDING CAKE THIS FLAVOR.
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