For several years now I had dreamed about this oh so delicious pound cake called an Orange Crush Pound Cake that I had first tasted at a Christmas Dinner many years before. You see as a small child my Grandfather ran a store and in our area of the south at that time the Orange Crush Soda was one of the most popular soft drinks sold. It was also one of my favorite soft drinks and I remember how good those cold sodas could taste on a hot summer afternoon. I don’t know if you’ve ever had an Orange Crush Soda but they are one of the most delicious soft drinks ever and even after all the soda is gone you can still taste that wonderful orange taste in your mouth. It was truly one of the most wonderful tastes in the world.

I grew up and moved away from North Carolina and I had really almost forgotten how wonderful Orange Crush Sodas taste when about ten years ago I went back home for the Christmas Holidays and at the home of one of my Aunts I discovered she was serving an Orange Crush Pound Cake and I discovered something about myself that I had apparently forgotten for a number of years. I discovered that I was still crazy about the Soda and when it was made into an Orange Crush Pound Cake it was one of if not the most wonderful tastes that I had ever had. But a friend of my Aunts had made the cake at the Christmas Dinner and she wasn’t willing to share the recipe with anyone. Not even when I offered to pay her for the recipe.

So for the next ten years I worked on discovering the secrets of that pound cake and I can’t even begin to tell you how many times I tried to come up with a recipe to reproduce that wonderful cake I had been served at my Aunts Christmas dinner all those years ago. I guess you could say that I became obsessed with making an Orange Crush Pound Cake that would taste like that one I remembered being served at my Aunts house. I refused to give up until I had discovered what made that cake taste so delicious.

I tried many different ingredients but I just could not get the exact taste I was looking for. The cake I had been served was moist and it had the distinct flavor of the soda it had been named after. But when I would try to make the cake I could get close to the taste I was looking for but something wasn’t just quite right. I knew that one of the main ingredients of that cake was the soda but there just had to be an ingredient that I was missing. You would not believe how many different ingredients I tried before I discovered what the one ingredient was that I had been missing.

But once I figured out that one secret ingredient I was able to make an Orange Crush Pound Cake that tasted exactly like that cake I had been served at my Aunts Christmas Dinner ten years before. And over the next year or so I started to make this cake and when people tasted it and I saw their faces when they tasted it I knew that I had one of the most wonderful recipes for a pound cake in the world. I had discovered and developed a recipe that to a lot of people is one of the most wonderful things they had ever tasted. I could have kept the recipe a secret but I think everyone in the world should have the chance to make this wonderful cake and enjoy it like I and the tens of thousands of people I have made it for have enjoyed it. I have now made thousands of these Orange Crush Pound Cakes and along the way I developed an icing for the cake but I think it is just as good with the icing as it is with out so be sure you make it and try it both ways. With and with out the icing.

And guess what? If you want the secret recipe for this delicious cake all you have to do is check the link below and you’ll be able to read the recipe and make the cake for yourself. I hope there is an Orange Crush Pound Cake in your future very soon. If Orange Crush Soda is not available in your area you can use any good quality orange soda but you may want to add a extra half teaspoon of the secret ingredient. And yes when you check out the recipe you will discover the secret ingredient.