Recipe(tried): Fabulous Seven Up Pound Cake

I found this recipe in Taste of the South, a fabulous "foodie" mag with incredible recipes. It is a dense poundcake with great "dunkability" in cold milk or a cup of coffee. Very lemony tasting, very good!

7-UP POUND CAKE

1 cup butter or margarine, softened
1/2 cup shortening
3 cups sugar
5 eggs
1 1/2 teaspoons lemon extract
1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
3 cups all-purpose flour, sifted
7 fluid ounces lemon-lime soda, such as 7-Up
Directions

Preheat oven to 300 . Spray 1 (10-inch) tube pan or 2 (8-inch) tube pans with nonstick baking spray with flour; set aside.

In a large bowl, beat butter or margarine, shortening, and sugar at medium speed with an electric mixer until creamy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Add lemon and vanilla extracts, beating to combine.

Gradually add flour and 7-Up to butter mixture in three batches, beating well after each addition and ending with 7-Up. Spoon batter into prepared pan.

Bake for 1 hour, or until a tester inserted in cake tests done.
Let cool for 30 minutes. Invert onto a cake plate and let cool completely.

Yield: 12 - 16 servings
Recipe courtesy of Jeanne Robertson
Source: Taste of the South, Feb/Mar 08