One of my favorite of the flavored pound cakes is Orange Soda Pound Cake. It's a creation by one of the women at our sister church. Around here, small churches often share a minister and are called sister churches. Several times each year, the sister churches get together and share food, a good time, and recipes.
Orange Soda Pound Cake
- 1 cup Crisco
- 1/2 stick butter or margarine
- 2 3/4 cups sugar
- 5 eggs
- 1 cup Orange Crush soda (or other orange soda drink)
- 3 cups plain flour
- 1 tsp orange flavoring
- 1 tsp vanilla flavoring
Direcions:
Cream Crisco, butter, and sugar well. Add eggs one at a time and cream each egg well. Mixing well at this stage is what gives pound cake some air and makes it rise high.
Rotate adding a little orange soda with flour. Mix after each until smooth.
Add the orange and vanilla flavorings and do the final mix.
Bake at 325 degrees F for 1 hour and 10 minutes. Times may vary a bit. Use a toothpick to make sure the cake is done. The toothpick should come out clean when the cake is ready.
Orange Soda Pound Cake is especially good frosted. Here is a good frosting for this cake.
Orange Pound Cake Frosting
- 1/2 stick butter of margarine
- 3 oz. cream cheese
- 1 cup confectioners sugar
- 1 tsp orange flavoring
- 1/2 tsp vanilla flavoring
Frosting Directions:
Cream butter and cream cheese.
Mix in confectioners sugar and flavorings.
Stir or use a blender and mix until this looks like frosting.
Spread on warm Orange Soda Pound Cake. It will run a bit which is what it's supposed to do. Remember that this is a glaze and not a traditional frosting which is a bit heavy for most pound cakes.
Other favorite southern desserts to check out:
