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Big Mama’s 7Up cake Ara Hayes
Big Mama’s 7Up cake
Submitted by: Ara Hayes, Eligibility Support Clerk Workforce & Benefi ts Administration - Eden Area Multi-Service Center
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My Big Mama made this cake every week for Sunday Dinner. After her passing, my oldest sister kept up the tradition. The torch has passed to me, the youngest of 10, and now every Sunday I make the same cake.
Big Mama in her early 30s, during the 1940s in Carmel, California.
INGREDIENTS
3 sticks of butter (soft) 3 cups of cake fl our 3 cups of sugar 3/4 can of 7Up 5 eggs 1 tablespoon lemon extract
INSTRUCTIONS
1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees. 2. Blend the butter and sugar until it is smooth. Add the eggs and blend until you see no yellow yolks. Add the 7Up and blend. Slowly add the fl our.
Blend until it is smooth. Add lemon extract. 3. Grease and fl our a bundt cake pan.
Pour the cake mixture into the pan.
Shake the pan to make the cake even. 4. Place on the top shelf of the oven for baking. Bake for 1 hour 15 minutes. PRO TIP: The butter must be soft. I leave mine out overnight in my mixing bowl.
