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7up cake overflowed in the oven

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buffyfly9 Thu 02-Jun-22 23:05:06

We're you trying to make a cheaper version of the now notorious Jubilee Trifle?? My advice, for what's it's worth is to throw it in the bin. sad

crazyH Thu 02-Jun-22 22:33:05

Never heard of a 7Up cake. Mind you, I don’t bake anyway ?

geekesse Thu 02-Jun-22 22:30:11

It’s sickly sweet, and not to my taste, but that is the recipe. The mistake was to use self-raising flour. The 7Up is the raising agent, so you should use plain flour (I think it’s called ‘all purpose flour on the other side of the pond).

Callistemon21 Thu 02-Jun-22 22:28:12

There is a lot of sugar in the recipeand I wonder if that's why it sank.

I made a chocolate cake once with a whole jar of Hellman's Mayonnaise. It was very good.
No-one guessed the secret ingredient.

Farmor15 Thu 02-Jun-22 22:22:11

It seems to be the correct recipe for this cake - American. Except recipes I saw used plain flour, not self raising. Must be very sweet, though.

twiglet77 Thu 02-Jun-22 22:19:59

I’ve made scones with lemonade, double cream and flour, but your recipe sounds incredibly wet for cake mix - 5 eggs AND fat AND fizz?

Zonne Thu 02-Jun-22 22:19:16

Just cut the top level, and cover it with icing (frosting) to hide any wobbly bits. Can't see how even more sugar could hurt...

Callistemon21 Thu 02-Jun-22 22:14:46

As well as 7Up which has sugar in it.

Make it in a metal bucket?

Germanshepherdsmum Thu 02-Jun-22 21:47:06

It’s a wind up. No sane person would use that much sugar.?

Allsorts Thu 02-Jun-22 20:28:53

So much sugar! Have you ever tasted the made cake? I don’t like the sound of it but as long as it was cooked I would fashion something out of it or use it as base for a trifle or similar . I hate waste.

Blossoming Thu 02-Jun-22 20:26:54

Did you want help with an acronym? I think SNAFU fits the bill here grin

Germanshepherdsmum Thu 02-Jun-22 20:21:41

How can anyone help?

cooberpedi Thu 02-Jun-22 19:39:42

My 7up cake overflowed in the oven. 5 eggs, 3 cups sr flour, 3 cups sugar, 1 1/2cups margarine & lemon essence and 1/2 can 7up. Huge cake baked at 325 F in large fluted tin. It not only rose, overflowed and sank but was lopsided. Help!