Mama Harris' Infamous 7-Up Cake

You can never have too many cake recipes, as much as we go back to our favorite recipes time and time again, there is always room for a new recipe especially with so many to choose from! This "Mama Harris' Infamous 7-Up Cake," might sound like an unusual combination, but make no mistake it's irresistible.

This 7-Up cake recipe is great to make in a bundt pan, and is perfect as you can slice them thin, great for lunches or snacks. This lemon 7-Up cake is bursting with flavor, it might seem strange to put 7-Up in cake, but it helps make the cake extra moist and adds to the great flavour, any lemon lime soda will do. There is a sweet lemon taste throughout this lemon 7-Up cake recipe. This cake recipe is made from scratch with butter, sugar, eggs, flour, lemon extract, vanilla, 7-Up (or lemon/lime flavored soda), you will mix the ingredients, bake and let the cake cool. This is when you can make the perfect lemon glaze recipe, its simple with powdered sugar milk and lemon extract, just pour over cake and there you go, its like sunshine on a plate.

Dawn, who is also known as "Mama Harris," got the moniker as she was a single mom to two boys at the young age of 22 years old, so she spent many years as a single mom. She worked hard, sometimes two jobs, and went back to school for a few years, before meeting her now husband, who also had children, along with adopting two more children later on, so the name definitely fits. This mom has plenty of experience cooking for a group of people everyday. On her site you will find lots of recipes from breakfast recipes, lunch recipes, dinner recipes, dessert recipes, slow cooker recipes, tortellini pesto pasta salad with sun dried tomatoes recipes, chicken recipes, rice recipes and lots more.

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