This Sugared Cranberry Cake is the holiday-supreme version of my most popular recipe of all time – French Strawberry Cake.
Sugared cranberries are indubitably a side in case you don’t know. They are indubitably lovely however they delight in a whereas to scheme. And in my skills they are though-provoking a little bit too tart. The sugar itself doesn’t penetrate to the center of the cranberry with the sugared contrivance. They secure a little bit sweeter when baked in a cake.
My French Strawberry Cake is up to now my most viewed recipe of all time. It’s a whimsical cake. Straightforward to scheme however with a hideous presentation. With the sugar topping it translates indubitably well to the addition of cranberries. Sugared cranberries change into the topping of the cake with none extra effort to your phase.
That you would per chance well bake this cake in a 9-trip solid iron skillet and use that as the serving dish. Otherwise you can bake it in a 9-trip round cake pan and nick it correct out of the pan. It’s no longer rather as lovely to space on a buffet or your table that contrivance so I’d suggest a ceramic baking dish to bake it in and reduction from.
This cake most unquestionably capabilities as a dessert. But it completely would be a gorgeous holiday addition to a brunch table with a breakfast casserole too. It is a long way a cake that might well secure your company soliciting for the recipe.
Sugared Cranberry Cake
Direction Dessert
Delicacies American
Prep Time 10 minutes
Prepare dinner Time 40 minutes
Total Time 50 minutes
Servings 8
Substances
- 1 stick (8 tbsp) unsalted butter softened
- 1 1/4 cup granulated sugar divided
- 2 wide eggs
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 1/3 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 1/4 tsp baking powder
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1/2 cup sour cream
- 16 oz new cranberries
Instructions
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Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray a 9-trip solid iron skillet OR a round cake pan with cooking spray and space aside.
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In the bowl of a stand mixer, whip together the butter and 1 cup of the sugar till faded and fluffy, 5 to 7 minutes.
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Add the eggs, one at a time and beat well after each addition. Beat in the vanilla.
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In a medium bowl, run together the flour, baking powder and salt. Gradually add the flour mixture to butter mixture alternately with sour cream, foundation and ending with flour mixture, beating though-provoking till blended after each addition.
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Fold a form of the cranberries into the cake batter. Spread the batter in the animated skillet or cake pan. Evenly dwelling the final cranberries (about 10-12) on high of the batter, urgent them in calmly to stay.
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Sprinkle the final 1/4 cup of sugar evenly over the high of the cake batter.
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Bake till a picket decide inserted in the center comes out neat, 35-40 minutes.
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Let the cake wintry entirely in the pan and nick and reduction the cake from the pan.
Notes
Some folk secure reported desiring to bake the cake longer than the advised time of 35 – 40 minutes. Pans, skillets and particular person ovens will all facet into the supreme baking time.
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