Recipe for cooking orange crush pound cake

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Orange Crush Pound Cake

1 c. (2 sticks) butter, at room temperature
1/2 c. shortening
2 3/4 c. sugar
5 eggs
1 c. Orange Crush or other carbonated orange drink
3 c. cake flour
1/2 tsp. salt
1 Tbsp. orange flavoring
1 tsp. vanilla extract or flavoring
Icing

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease and flour a tube pan.

Cream butter, shortening and sugar until fluffy. Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition.

In a second bowl, sift flour and salt together. Add dry ingredients to butter mixture, alternately with orange drink. Add flavorings. Pour batter into tube pan and bake for 1 hour and 10 mins. or until cake is golden brown.

Cool cake in pan about 10 mins.. Remove from pan and let cake cool completely on wire rack. Frost cake with icing.

NOTE: Some cooks prefer the softer crust of a Pound Cake baked in an oven that is not preheated. If oven is not preheated, the baking time may vary slightly.

Icing
1/4 c. (1/2 stick) butter, softened
8 oz. cream cheese, softened
1 box powdered\sugar
1 tea. orange flavoring

Cream butter and cream cheese in mixer, gradually add sugar. Add flavoring and combine well.