Orange Crush Pound Cake
Created by NightBaker on August 6, 2012
- Servings: 14
- Prep Time: 20m
- Cook Time: 65-70m
- Recipe #6135
Ingredients
- 1 cup butter, room temperature
- 1/2 cup shortening
- 2 3/4 cups sugar
- 5 eggs (large eggs)
- 1 cup Orange Crush or other carbonated orange drink (room temperature)
- 3 cups cake flour
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 tablespoon orange extract flavoring
How to Make
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Step 1: Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease and flour a tube pan.
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Step 2: Cream butter, shortening and sugar until fluffy. Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition then continue beating 3 minutes.
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Step 3: In a second bowl, sift flour and salt together. Add dry ingredients to butter mixture, alternately with orange drink. Add orange flavoring. Pour batter into tube pan and bake for 1 hour and 10 minutes or until cake is golden brown.
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Step 4: Cool cake in pan about 10 minutes. Remove from pan and let cake cool completely on wire rack.
Nutritional Facts
- Serving Size: 1 (128 g)
- Calories 490.7
- Total Fat - 23.6 g
- Saturated Fat - 4.5 g
- Cholesterol - 60.4 mg
- Sodium - 137.8 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 65.1 g
- Dietary Fiber - 0.5 g
- Sugars - 41 g
- Protein - 4.4 g
- Calcium - 37.4 mg
- Iron - 2.6 mg
- Vitamin C - 4.4 mg
- Thiamin - 0.3 mg