7up cake overflowed in the oven

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.

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

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).

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.

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.

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?

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...

As well as 7Up which has sugar in it.

Make it in a metal bucket?

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

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.

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

How can anyone help?