Ingredients
- 1 cup butter, softened
- • 1/2 cup shortening
- • 3 cups sugar
- • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- • 1/2 teaspoon almond extract • 5 eggs, at room temperature • 3 cups all-purpose flour • 1/2 teaspoon salt
- • l cup 7UP
- For the Glaze
- • 1/4 cup 7UP
- • 1/2 cup sugar
Preparation
Step 1
Preheat oven to 300°F. Grease and flour a 10-inch tube pan.
Combine butter, shortening, sugar, vanilla and almond extract in the bowl of an electric mixer. Beat until light and fluffy, about 5 minutes. Add eggs,3one at a time, beating well after each addition.
In a separate bowl, combine the flour and salt, and add to butter/sugar mixture alternately with 1 cup 7 UP, beating well after each addition.
Spoon batter into prepared 10-inch tube pan, and bake for 1 hour and 45 minutes, or until cake tester comes out clean. Cool in pan on a wire rack for 10 minutes, then invert on serving plate and remove pan.
While cake is cooling, make the glaze by stirring together the 1/4 cup 7 UP and 1/2 cup sugar in a saucepan. Bring to a boil over medium heat, and boil 1 to 2 minutes or until sugar is cdmpletely dissolved. Punch holes in top of warm Cake with a toothpick. Spoon glaze over cake, and cool completely before serving.