Dessert; 7-Up Pound Cake with Limoncello

Copyright by The Old School Housewife

If you like pound cake and you like Limoncello, you will love this cake.  I got this recipe from a good friend of my, Barbara from Ohio.  It called for lemon flavor, but I substituted Limoncello instead.  Limoncello is a liqueur of Sorrento, Italy.  It's a little strong for me to drink but it's the best lemon flavor in any dessert recipe that calls for lemon flavor.  Even if it doesn't in some cakes.
Recipe to follow:
7-Up Pound Cake with Limoncello

2 sticks of butter
1/2 cup of Crisco or other shortening
3 cups of sugar
2 tsp. Limoncello
1 1/2 tsp. vanilla
3 cups all purpose flour
5 eggs
7 oz. 7-Up

Preheat oven to 300 degrees.  Cream butter, shortening and sugar.  Add Limoncello and vanilla; add eggs one at a time, beating after each addition.  Alternate adding flour and 7-Up beating after each addition; finishing with 7-Up.
Spray 10" tube pan with baking spray.
Cook at 300 degrees for one hour or until it tests done.
Let sit for 30 minutes before removing from pan.