Orange Crush pound cake
Orange Crush pound cake recipe in the cake category
Recipe ingredients:
- 1 cup, 2 sticks, butter, at room temperature
- 1/2 cup shortening
- 2 3/4 cups granulated sugar
- 5 eggs
- 1 cup Orange Crush or other carbonated orange drink
- 3 cups cake flour
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 tablespoon orange flavoring
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- Icing:
- 1/4 cup, 1/2 stick, butter, softened
- 8 ounces cream cheese, softened
- 1 box confectioners sugar
- 1 teaspoon orange flavoring
Recipe method:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
- Grease and flour a tube pan.
- Cream butter, shortening and sugar until fluffy.
- Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition.
- In a second bowl, sift flour and salt together.
- Add dry ingredients to butter mixture, alternately with orange drink.
- Add flavorings.
- Pour batter into tube pan and bake for 1 hour and 10 minutes or until cake is golden brown.
- Cool cake in pan about 10 minutes.
- Remove from pan and let cake cool completely on wire rack.
- Frost cake with icing.
- Icing: Cream butter and cream cheese in mixer, gradually add sugar. Add flavoring and combine well.
- Some cooks prefer the softer crust of a pound cake baked in an oven that is not preheated. If oven is not preheated, the baking time may vary slightly.
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