Southern SunDrop Soft Drink Pound Cake Recipe
Citrus Flavored Pound Cake with SunDrop Soda Drizzle Icing
Sep 19, 2009
Pound cake is a common and favorite cake in the South. The name comes from the old recipes (also called receipts) which listed ingredients out by pounds – pound of butter, pound of flour, pound of sugar etc.
Variations on Southern Pound Cakes
Over the years, Southern cooks have experimented with variations on the pound cake which typically has a faint vanilla flavor. In some cases, Southerners add different flavorings or a combination of flavorings.
In other cases, Southern cooks switch out the milk and use various other liquids in the pound cake to add new flavors. For example, Sun Drop soft drink or soda may be used as the liquid in the recipe, giving the pound cake a nice but light citrus twang.
SunDrop – A Very Southern Soft Drink
SunDrop soft drink was created by Charles Lazier, a beverage concentrates salesman, in St. Louis, Missouri in 1949. Today, SunDrop Bottling Company is headquartered out of Pulaski, Tennessee. The company also makes a variety of other soft drinks including RC Cola, but SunDrop is, far and away, the biggest selling drink manufactured by the Southern soda company.
SunDrop Pound Cake Recipe
Ingredients:
- 2 sticks of butter (or margarine)
- ½ cup Crisco (or other solid vegetable fat)
- 3 cups sugar
- 5 eggs
- 1 tsp vanilla flavoring
- 1 tsp lemon flavoring
- 3 cups cake flour (or plain flour minus 3 TBS)
- ¾ cup SunDrop soft drink
Directions:
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees F and grease and lightly flour a tube cake pan or bundt cake pan.
- Cream together sugar, Crisco, and butter (softened to room temperature before mixing).
- Add eggs one at a time and beat well so that the case will be light and rise high. Since the cake does not have a rising ingredient, using cake flour and beating well ensures a lighter texture.
- Add vanilla and lemon flavorings and beat well.
- Alternate adding the cake flour and Sun Drop soda and beating well after each addition.
- Pour cake mixture into tube pan. Wipe any drips away from the inside of the tube pan. A paper towel wrapped around the index finger works well for this.
- Bake for 1 hour and 15 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean at 325 degrees F.
- Frost cake with SunDrop Drizzle Icing over cake while still warm.
SunDrop Drizzle Frosting Recipe
Ingredients:
- 2 cups confectioners sugar (also called 10 x powdered sugar etc)
- 2 TBS softened butter (or margarine)
- 4 TBS SunDrop (add tiny bits more if or as needed)
Directions:
- Combine sugar, butter, and Sun Drop soft drink and mix well until light and creamy.
- Spoon icing over warm cake using a spoon. If frosting does not drip slowly from spoon onto warm cake, add just a tiny bit more SunDrop soda. The warm cake makes the icing run down the sides, so do not add too much SunDrop, or it will all end up puddled around the bottom of the SunDrop Pound Cake.
More Favorite Southern Pound Cake Recipes:
Carolina Peach Pound Cake – Enjoy the flavor of fresh Southern grown peaches with this wonderful pound cake popular in South Carolina.
Lemon Pound Cake – Buttermilk makes this pound cake rich and yummy. This is an old fashioned Southern pound cake which has been baked for years.
Orange Crush Soft Drink Pound Cake – Try another soft drink flavored pound cake. This one has a great orange flavor plus a little color.
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