1 cup butter
1/2 cup vegetable shortening
2-3 cups sugar
1 teaspoon baking powder
5 eggs
3 cups all-purpose flour
1 cup 7-Up soda (any lemon-lime soda will suffice)
1 teaspoon lemon extract or vanilla extract
1 teaspoon butter flavor extract
Preheat oven to 350-degrees. Coat a 9 x 5 x 2-inch loaf pan with cooking spray and dust with flour. Sift together flour and baking powder. Set aside. Cream butter and sugar in a large mixing bowl. Add in eggs, vanilla or lemon extract, and 7-UP. Gradually add in flour mixture. Beat until mixture is smooth either by hand or with a mixer.
Bake 40 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool in pan for 10 minutes. Turn onto a wire rack. Remove the pan and cool. Dust with confectioners’ sugar.
1 hour 30 minutes