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Make a sky-high Southern 7UP sour cream pound cake with a soft, moist crumb and bright lemon flavor. This step-by-step baking tutorial combines butter with both powdered and granulated sugar, then adds eggs, sour cream, vanilla, lemon extract, and 7UP. Learn how to mix the batter without overworking it, prepare the pan, bake the cake, and finish it with a pourable 7UP glaze. Cut into generous slices, this impressive cake can serve 20 or more—ideal for family gatherings, birthdays, holiday tables, or sharing at work.
Find a Southern pound cake recipe that brings together classic home baking and a fluffy, tender texture. This 7UP cake tutorial is for home bakers looking for a large-batch sour cream pound cake, a lemon-flavored cake with soda, or a crowd-size dessert for a celebration.
Find a Southern pound cake recipe that brings together classic home baking and a fluffy, tender texture. This 7UP cake tutorial is for home bakers looking for a large-batch sour cream pound cake, a lemon-flavored cake with soda, or a crowd-size dessert for a celebration.
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00:00here's how you make my luscious seven up mile high pound cake this is filled with sour cream
00:06and we're going to be using a new method that i saw on facebook where you use powdered sugar
00:10and replace some sugar i'm going to use a half and half mix in this video and i'm going to
00:14show
00:14you exactly what you need to do to make this pound cake this pound cake was super luscious
00:20it was moist it was it had that seven up lemony flavor and when you cut this pound cake like
00:26this
00:26you can get 20 slices of jumbo pound cake look how big these slices are this can feed a family
00:33of
00:33four a family of five a whole office if need be including birthday parties and more so go ahead
00:39and like this video because i know you're going to enjoy this content and also get my ultimate pound
00:43cake recipe ebook bundle the link will be in my bio where you can get more pound cake recipes just
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00:49this let's get into the video so to make this pound cake i'm going to start with about one and
00:53a half
00:53cups of granulated sugar i am going to be using powdered sugar in this as well but before we do
00:58that i'm going to cream the regular sugar in our butter together until it's white and fluffy and
01:04you can see me adding about four sticks of butter in here and you're just going to turn your mixer
01:08on
01:09high speed and let that cream up for about four to five minutes the reason why i didn't add the
01:13powdered sugar in there as well is because powdered sugar is very fine so we don't have to cream that
01:19together so now i'm just going to uh sift my powdered sugar now with domino's powder sure you don't have
01:25to uh sift it if you don't want to you really can whisk it but i thought you know you
01:30know i just want
01:31to make sure that this is fine as possible this is my first time making this pound cake with this
01:35method
01:35and i'm using half and half because you know um i saw in the post that they use all powdered
01:42sugar and
01:43i know that they can make a you know a dry cake sometime so i just wanted to use half
01:48of
01:48granulated sugar and then half a powdered sugar and kind of test it out so this test did obviously
01:54work so you know that's why i'm giving you guys this recipe but yeah i did one and a half
01:59cups of
01:59granulated sugar and then i did about three and a half cups of powdered sugar in the original recipe
02:05that i saw on facebook she used seven cups of powdered sugar and i know powdered sugar is a little
02:10bit
02:10more sweet than uh granulated sugar so i just didn't want to do that i didn't want no over the
02:15overly sweet pound cake but yeah feel free to test it if you want to do something like that
02:20but that's not what i'm doing in this video so the reason why this went viral on facebook is because
02:24powdered sugar has cornstarch in it and it's very very very fine sugar so it dissolves better into your
02:31batter which can make your cake a lot more fluffy but i'm also going to add a little bit of
02:36sour cream
02:37to make this you know a lot more moist and you know have that you know that creamy fatness that
02:44pound cakes should have and sour cream does that so i want to add sour cream to this recipe as
02:48well
02:49so that's why i wanted to create this recipe but anyway you're going to add in your powdered sugar
02:54to your butter and granulated sugar mixer and you're just going to mix this for about two to three
03:00minutes like i said this is powdered sugar doesn't take long to dissolve into the batter it's already super
03:05super fine and with that added corn starch you're going to see it kind of thicken up a little bit
03:09and i'm just going to beat it till it becomes more aerated i do want to make a pound cake
03:14with all
03:14powdered sugar and if that's something you guys want to see put it in the comment section below
03:18but anyway we're going to add in eight eggs that's it that is a lot of eggs but eggs prices
03:23have gone
03:24down so you know this is exactly what the recipe calls for but we're going to put eight eggs in
03:30here
03:30all of my ingredients are room temperature if i'm not ready to see it the full recipe will be in
03:35the
03:35description below but we're going to add in the eggs one at a time i have my mixer on low
03:39speed
03:39and this is what you want to do when you add it in your eggs if you guys don't know
03:43that egg whites
03:45trap air and if you add too much air into your cake batter sometimes your pound cake can rise and
03:51then
03:51when you cool it'll collapse that's why you kind of see some people who have a cake that has like
03:56the
03:57middle collapsed in and that's because you added too much air into your egg whites and when it cooled
04:02it just collapsed in the middle so you don't want that with your pound cake or any of your
04:06pound cakes that you're making so that's why it's super important that you add in your eggs one at a
04:10time and you don't go more than a low speed on your mixer but if you're enjoying this video so
04:15far
04:15make sure you give this video a thumbs up and also hit that share button and share it on social
04:19media
04:20so other people can make this cake as well spread the love around i know this is a new style
04:25of pound cake but
04:26i think this would be great for the holiday season or any type of party or something like that that
04:31you have to serve a lot of people so once all of my eggs are added in i'm going to
04:35turn the mixer off
04:36i'm going to pull the spatula up and you want to make sure that you get all of that batter
04:41off of
04:42your spatula and around the size of your bowl and make sure it's mixed in and it's well combined
04:47like i said this is going to be a little thicker because of the cornstarch is added to it from
04:51the
04:51powdered sugar so yeah make sure everything is well combined now i'm going to take my seven
04:56up this is about a half cup of seven up and i'm going to add my asterix to that it's
05:00going to be
05:01vanilla and then it's going to be lemon asterix and my seven up is room temperature i forgot to add
05:06that
05:06but you know you're going to add that and you're going to mix that together and if you see the
05:10scale
05:10in my video just know that i weigh all of my ingredients so that's why you've been seeing it i
05:14don't go by cups i go by the metric system so if you're somewhere like the uk you will be
05:19able to
05:20use this recipe because the grams will be in the description below so i'm just going to sift in my
05:25white lily all-purpose flour um i wanted to use cake flour in this but i feel like you know
05:30since
05:30we added the cornstarch you know if you don't have if you don't have cake flour at the house
05:34they tell you to mix white flour i mean all-purpose flour and cornstarch and that'll make cake uh
05:39flour so i didn't feel like i needed to add cake flour onto this and it's already going to be
05:44soft
05:44and fluffy and all of that but i did sift it one time you don't i don't think you need
05:49to sift it
05:49twice but just sift it one time and uh this is about four and a half cups of all-purpose
05:55flour
05:55this is like i said a big cake but whatever bowl that you're putting your cake batter in you want
05:59to make sure it's big enough because this is a lot of cake batter so trust me you want to
06:03have a big
06:04bowl to put all this stuff in so now i'm going to add about a teaspoon of baking powder and
06:08a teaspoon
06:09of salt that's all that's important to balance out that sweetness and i'm going to whisk that together
06:14to make sure all of that salt and baking powder spreads through the flour evenly and you know you just
06:19want to do this to get all those lumps out of there if you have lumps in there mine didn't
06:22have that
06:23because we did sift oh and i also forgot to add the sour cream to the seven up and asterisks
06:29so that's
06:30what i'm doing now but you want to do that at the beginning um it didn't make a difference but
06:34i just
06:34did forget about that but you want to kind of add that in there it's going to kind of liquefy
06:38with the
06:39seven up and it's going to make it easier to combine when we alternate between flour and the seven
06:44up and sour cream mix we're going to serve that until everything is well combined and you see no
06:49more big chunks of sour cream and we're going to put our mixer on low speed and we're going to
06:54add
06:54in our flour salt and baking powder mix you want to start and end with flour and you know i'm
07:00doing
07:00three scoops at a time with this big spoon and then i want to pour in some of that liquefied
07:06sour cream
07:07seven up and asterisk and then i'm going to do three scoops again now you want to alternate with this
07:13to make sure everything is being coated and well combined you don't want to over mix this
07:18so like i said keep this on low speed and just ahead it one at a time nobody likes those
07:24gluten
07:24streaks in your cake when your cake cools so you know you see those gluten streaks in your cake they're
07:29like little wet spots no one likes it in their cake and that the way to prevent that is to
07:34not add
07:34too much gluten to this pound cake and i know a lot of people they mix on either two or
07:39three just
07:40because they want to get the pound cake done and what they don't understand when they're adding in
07:44those that flour is creating what's called gluten and the more gluten that you add the more bready
07:50your pound cake is going to taste and also those gluten streaks so just take your time you don't
07:55want to rush you to made it this far with this pound cake recipe and you want to make sure
07:59this
07:59pound cake turns out right now if you want more of a crust on your pound cake or you want
08:03it to be
08:04extra have that extra crunchy top then i suggest you try my seven up uh cream cheese pound cake
08:09recipe that'll be in the link below in my ultimate pound cake bundle along with 50 other pound cake
08:15recipes but that's in southern pound case one if you guys want that one but yeah that pound cake recipe
08:20is a classic and it's one of the greatest of all time in my opinion but this seven amount how
08:24pound cake
08:25is really good as well because it's going to feed a lot of people and yeah you guys will be
08:29happy with
08:29this so you just see me adding in the last bit of this flour and then i'm going to turn
08:33off my mixer
08:34and i'm just going to get the rest of of the pound cake batter with my spatula so i'm going
08:38to combine
08:39it with my spatula um and this just ensures that i do not over mix my pound cake batter so
08:44you kind
08:44of see me going around the edges and i'm putting this in my square pound cake pan that i got
08:49from old
08:49country kitchen and i'm just going to spray it down with some pan baking spray now you can use some
08:54cake goop i think i was out so that's why i ended up using the spray and as you can
08:58see it did come out
08:59clean this is my first time using this pan i'm going to be using this pan a lot more and
09:04probably
09:04since it was my first time it didn't have any stickies but you know as you continue to use your
09:08pan you know it's going to have some stickies but since this was my first time i was excited to
09:13use it
09:13but i am heavily coating this with some pam yeah you definitely want to do it like this because like
09:18i
09:18said having a pound cake stick is one of the worst feelings that i've had in my life so yeah
09:23this is my
09:24spray of choice i know a lot of you guys like baker's joy i do not know why i have
09:28always had a pound
09:29cake stick when i use any type of pan with baker's joy baker's joy is just not the best spray
09:33for me
09:33but anyway you're going to add in your pound cake batter and you want to kind of mix it well
09:38thoroughly
09:38once you get to the bottom just make sure everything is nice and combined and then i'm going to add
09:43this
09:43and i'm going to shake this a little bit and this is going in a preheated oven on 325 for
09:48about an hour
09:49and 20 minutes do not shake your cake into an hour into your bake but yeah once it comes out
09:54the oven
09:54it's going to look like this excuse the shirt i didn't have my oven miss and i did not know
09:59where
09:59they were but i let this cool for about 10 minutes and then i'm going to take it out and
10:03as you can
10:04see it looks clean so i'm just going to take another cake board and i'm going to flip it over
10:08this is a 12
10:09inch square cake board by the way so you definitely want to use that size but just for so you
10:15guys can
10:15see the length i put my spatula beside it and as you can see this pound cake is really really
10:19tall
10:20it looked nice and now all i'm going to do is add in my seven up glaze to the cake
10:25and this is more
10:26like a heavy donut glaze i'm going to spread it out a little bit at the end so you guys
10:30can see it
10:30but you know it is super super super glassy once it cools it's going to look really really good but
10:37i'm just going to spread it out with my spatula so you can see some of the cake in there
10:40as well
10:41it's not as thick as you know some people like their glaze it's just like in the middle it's
10:46pourable it reminds me of a thicker crispy cream glaze and as you can see it looks really really
10:51really nice on this cake any anytime you put this on a table or if you take this to work
10:57or any party
10:57this is going to be a showstopper i promise you guys and you're going to get a lot of slices
11:02to
11:02this so i'm just cutting these slices medium lengthwise because this cake is so so so tall you
11:08know people are going to be getting a lot of cake for a small slice so yeah i'm just cutting
11:13it into
11:14about that type of length and width these are how those cake slices are going to look
11:18yeah so if you guys enjoyed this video give this a thumbs up
11:21also my pecan cake ebook will be in the bio and i'll talk to you later