Sun Drop® Pound Cake

You get two doses of citrus in this moist Sun Drop® pound cake with Sun Drop® glaze to serve at your next gathering.

• Preparation Time: 20 mins
• Cooking Time: 1 hr 15 mins
• Total Time: 1 hr 35 mins
• Calories: 489 Calories

Ingredients

• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 cup margarine
• 3 cups all-purpose flour
• 5 eggs
• 1 teaspoon lemon extract
• 3 cups white sugar
• 2 tablespoons margarine, melted
• ½ cup vegetable shortening (such as Crisco®)
• 6 fluid ounces citrus-flavored soda (such as Sun Drop®)
• 2 cups confectioners sugar
• 1 fluid ounce citrus-flavored soda (such as Sun Drop®)

Recipe Instructions

Step 1

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour a tube pan.

Step 2

Beat white sugar, 1 cup margarine, and shortening together with an electric mixer until creamy and smooth. Mix flour, 6 fluid ounces citrus-flavored soda, eggs, lemon extract, and vanilla extract into the creamed mixture until well incorporated. Pour batter into the prepared tube pan.

Step 3

Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the cake comes out clean, about 1 hour 15 minutes. Let cake cool for 10 minutes before turning cake onto a serving plate.

Step 4

Whisk confectioners' sugar, 2 tablespoons melted margarine, and 1 fluid ounce citrus-flavored soda together in a bowl until smooth; spread over cake.