Has anyone ever made one?

If you didn't you're missing out on a real treat!! It's a pound cake made from scatch and is very easy to make. It also has a luscious lemony / buttery taste and is oh, so good!!!

You should try it soon. It requires no milk, baking powder or baking soda. Just straightfoward sugar, butter, eggs, flour, lemon extract and 7-up soda.

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I made one to take over to my sister's house on Thanksgiving, and I made another one last week.

Give us a recipe why don'tcha ? :]

I thought that I did. I'll do it this weekend.

Hi Daquan..
what about this 7-up cake...is it ok for diabetics..I would probably replace the sugar with spenda..but its all sugar in the long run..was thinking about a Mississippi Mud cake too. I know that diabtics use their insulin to benefit the readings of the sugar levels, for the moment I am still on pills, and I dont think you are suppose to be doing that..re-adjusting your insulin..I thought you are to be eating all the timd properly and then the insulin remains the same..Now..if you eat this what do you do..because I love sweet stuff..and this sound light and safe..well relatively..

Sherri

Hi, delilahjed44!

It's good for me. I'm also a diabetic, but I suffer from low blood sugar levels.

I gues you could use Splenda or Domino De'Lite, even though I never did yet. But be careful. If you use too much of it, your food and dessrts could end up tasting like medicine!! That's the terrible side effect to these low-cal sweeteners.

You wouldn't want that, as it might become too unbearable to try to eat!

I'm on pills also - Glyburide.

Here's the recipe for anyone who might be thinking about doing it;

3 sticks butter

3 cups sugar

5 - 6 eggs

3 cups sifted flour

1 cup 7-up

1 teaspoon lemon extract

Grease a 10-inch tube pan, dust with flour. Or use Pam baking Spray. It has flour already in it.

With electric mixer, cream butter until smooth and shiny. Add sugar, continue beating until smooth and fluffy. Add lemon extract.

Then add eggs one at a time, beating thoroughly after each.

Add flour in three stages, beating until blended. Add 7-up, mix well.

Pour batter into prepared tube pan. Bake in preheated oven at about 325 for approximately 1 hour or until toothpick or cake tester inserted in center comes out clean.

Let cake cool in pan for 20 minutes. Invert cake onto rack. Finish cooling for about 20 minutes more.


Notes:

Make sure that butter and eggs are at room temperature.

Do NOT use margerine for this cake, or you won't get that heavenly buttery taste.

Do NOT use imitation extract, or you won't get that delicious lemony taste.

You can add some grated lemon peel to enhance the lemon flavor.

I was once told by firends who gave me this recipe that they had trouble with the cake. They told me that theirs kept falling after it was taken out of the oven!

But I've never had that problem, and I've been making the cake since the summer of 1979.

Enjoy!

Hey Daquan

thanks for the info, ya I know that sugar replacement garb can taste kind of nasty at time...I have this diabetic book with a carrot cake recipe if your interested...man I am tortured by not eating what I want..I really have to work overtime to keep my numbers down..I have dropped down to 134 but its not my desire...just eating protein and drinking lots of water..so when I visit mom for mothers day I am making that carrot cake.

YUMMM..

torured in Mo...

Sherri

Hope that it's good!!

Hey Daquan...

Hey I was thinking..hope you dont mind me saying this but..you know what..thats alot of sugar..two cups..are you suppose to be consuming that amount..I guess if your sugar is low then its ok..boy I much rather that than the other..but when my sugar drops I am become very disoriented to the point of not even knowing who I am..yeppers its bad..I have that carrot cake recipe all made out of natural sweets..no sweeteners..bought a diabetic book and learning it well. Truth is I have been a diabetic forever in a day but just started treating it the last 5 years,,so I will live to be 65 instead of 55 see..he-he..

Sherri

I hope you live even longer than that.

Well, I wouldn't be eating all of the cake at one time.

And I mainly only do it for gatherings, dinners, cookouts and other specil events. So that most of it is eaten by attending guests.

Hey Daquan
Good deal on that then..thats when the goodies are to be saved for the cheat days..he-he...just have to take a lil more meds..thats what I am doing saving the carrot cake recipe for Mothersday as I will go to her house and cook a big meal for everyone. I usually am the hostess for the entire family here at my home, but mom and step dad are 3 hours away and its a bit to much traveling for them anymore...

Sherri

Yeah, and besides, I don't do this cake very often. Only when I know that it's going to be practically devoured by friends or family.

Hey, check out my latest post in the thread that I started; Tutoring Small Children at School. I think your heart will be warmed by it!

Hey Daquan..I am at a place where seriousness draws the line for me so I can only dream or take one little ioda bite of anything sweet. For several days now my sugar has been low in the morning, though I do not eat after 6:00 pm unless its very little like nuts..but ya my reading this morning was 88, never in years has my numbers been this low, so for me its excellent..its also a drag to live with this sickness, I eat every two hours something small yet nutritional to make sure I have no spells..even with my low weight I struggle..its an imbedded gene, nothing I can do to change that.. ( sigh )

Sherri

Good for you!

Yesterday, I hadn't eaten for a while, went out to the corner store and started feeling sick and weak. Bought a honey bun to get the glucose level back up, but on the way home, I got even weaker and could friggen barely climb the stairs!!

Had to stop for a while. Had some apple juice when I got upstairs and a piece of candy, sat down for a while, and my strength had started coming back!

Yeah, that's a good idea to eat a little something every 2 hours to avoid getting sick!

De, have you tried the cake yet?