Seven-Up Sheet Cake

I love this recipe, but I hate coconut. I just leave that out.

Made this just like the original recipe. This recipe is a keeper!

I made this recipe and everyone loved it. It was moist and delicious. I picked holes in the top if it before adding the topping and it was awesome. I used lemon pudding instead of vanilla and left the coconut off because my family, including myself, doesn’t care for coconut. The topping took twice as long as the recipe said but I didn’t mind. Even my 2 year old picky eater loved it. I’m gonna make it for her birthday party.

I made a few adjustments after reading a few of the reviews. I used a lemon pudding mix and followed the cake directions as above. For the topping I used 1 1/4 C white sugar, used cornstarch rather than flour and used crushed pineapple with no added sugar. I cooked it over medium heat stirring with a whisk. I let the cake cool for quite some time before putting the slightly cooled topping on. It is a great cake. I would also put a cherry on top prior to serving.

Great recipe. Fallowed ingredients as is. Fruit filling/topping only took 15 min to thicken but I cooked it at a higher temp. I recommend tempering the eggs.

The cake itself was of course easy to make, and it had a somewhat dense moist texture; in between a sponge cake and pound cake. I think the cake recipe would work for many other things as well. The topping/frosting was a bit disappointing. It tasted good, but for the effort I wasn’t that impressed. I thought the sweetness was a bit too much and wished I had just used 1 cup of sugar instead of 1 1/2. It took FOREVER to thicken and I was afraid of walking away else I burn it! It took over 30 minutes to get it thick, starting it at a low 3 setting and then kicking the heat up to 4.5 to seal the deal. Part of the problem is that there is no frame of reference for how thick the topping should be. Mine was about the consistency of warm lemon curd, before it sets, or cook & serve pudding before it sets. I am taking one star only for the sweetness of the topping, with a suggestion of reducing the sugar to 1 cup. I hope this helps.

The cake was fabulous, wouldn’t change a thing. The topping tasted great, but the consistency was too runny. I cooked it a lot longer than it called for on medium and still had to add a lot of flour to get it to thicken up. Maybe making it without the pineapple juice would help.

I really hate to give a bad review, but I just couldn’t get past the oily taste the cake had. Next time I will use only 1/2 cup of oil. Also, the frosting was so sweet. Next time I will add 1 cup of chopped pecans to off-set the sweetness. I make a lot of cakes and should have known not to add that much oil, but I make the recipes exactly as written , so I can give an honest review. I noticed a lot of people had problems getting the frosting to thicken, Make sure you use real butter or margarine. If it doesn’t have 100 calories per Tablespoon, it is a spread (even if it is in sticks) not real margarine.

I used the ingredients, except I used diet Sprite. I also baked this cake as a layer cake instead of a sheet cake, using a round 8 x 4 pan. I baked for about 55 minutes to compensate for the height of the pan. Then I cut it in half to make two layers and filled it with strawberry preserves and a layer of thinly sliced fresh strawberries. A very nice take on strawberry shortcake. I then added lemon extract to the traditional butter cream icing. The cake was moist, and the flavor and moisture from the filling really set this off. So for those of you who don’t want to cook the topping for 45 minutes, fill it with low-sugar, high quality fruit preserves and fresh fruit. A chocolate pudding or bananas and a banana pudding snack cup would probably also do well as a filling. Thanks for this great cake recipe. This is a really moist, tasty cake. Mine did not come out light and fluffly, but probably because of the size of the pan I used. Love at first bite.

I took 45 minutes to thicken the frosting. Started on number 3 and ended on 4.5 on electric stove to get this to thicken. And as for the cake as it cooled it sunk and shriveled up. Frosting very sweet. But taste good. Labor intensive frosting and I will see what pple say tonight about it

This cake is so delicious. So easy to make. Our family has put this cake at the top of the list as one of our very favorites. Thank you for sharing.

If u hate pineapple and/or coconut, skip this recipe. Everyone else, cherish it!!!. You know what? Try it regardless. It’s super simple and inexpensive and someone u kno will gladly take it off your hands if u don’t want it. I know very little about baking yet the results were a very moist and oh so flavorful cake. (It was even delicious despite me adding the coconut to the saucepan instead of after as the recipe states). A few things in the recipe weren’t clear to a juvie like myself so to clarify: I used Betty Crocker Sup Moist Butter Yellow Cake Mix and I used real butter vs. marg. The “pineapple tidbits” were too big (imo) so I put them in a food proc on low. I used a 9 x 13 glass pyrex dish sprayed w/ Pam. Baked 40 min vs. 35. The topping only took 15 min to thicken for me, altho other reviewers said it took much longer for them (maybe bcuz I added coconut in the beginning and/or because I pureed the pineapples) but it was a perfect thick creamy consistency after 15 min. Also I don’t like thick icings on a cake so I put 1/4 of icing on the btm of a different dish and placed the cake on top, then frosted w/ remaining 3/4 icing. Everyone LOVED IT!!!! Someone else suggested two round pans with icing in the middle. I’m trying that next.

I made this for my dad’s birthday and everyone was delighted and impressed. My grandma commented that the cake made her think of being in Hawaii. 🙂 I made just a couple of changes: I used lemon cake mix, and I baked it in two 9-inch round pans and put some of the frosting both on top of the cake and between the two layers. I refrigerated the cake overnight, and right before the party, I covered the whole cake in whipped cream, which made it look pretty and tasted great with the tropical flavors. Simple recipe that’s unique enough to get rave reviews. Thanks so much!

This cake is very sweet, chances are you won’t be able to have more then one or two pieces, but otherwise it’s a very unique and tasty cake!

This cake was delicious. The topping is what gives it that “wow” factor. The key for the topping is cook it like 10-15 mins on low, then increase the temp to med-high until it thickens up.

Absolutely delicious! This cake is super moist. I made it for an extended family dinner. All my girls loved it! (And the adults did to.) I used Diet 7Up because that’s what I keep in the refrigerator.

Great moist cake. Bring this to work and co-workers will go crazy. Make sure you follow the directions exactly, when making the frosting, otherwise you will get scrambled eggs in it. However, so worth the work. Yummy, yummy in my tummy.

I made this following the recipe exactly. It was awesome. Everyone loved it.

I remember my mom making thisa, and it was just as good as I remember.. My husband liked it maybe even more than the coconut poke cake, which is (or was) his favorite… This is “comfort food”..

I made this cake it was very moist and fluffy. I had to tweak the topping I used 2.5 tsp of cornstarch, instead of flour, to thicken the pineapple topping, no eggs and only 3/4 c. of sugar. I added 1/4 c. butter and 4 oz of flaked cocounut – the topping came out great! I spread whipped cream on top, to make the cake more presentable. I would make again. My co-workers LOVED it and wanted the recipe.

I often cooked for approx. 100 seniors at the senior activity center I manage. This easy and delicious cake was served at a recent luau and I am still getting requests for the recipe.