Cranberry Cake with Warm Vanilla Butter Sauce

Never tried it, but looks promising.

Ingredients

  • 2 cups all-purpose flour
  • 3 teaspoons baking powder
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 3 tablespoons butter, melted
  • 1 cup granulated sugar
  • 2 eggs, beaten
  • 1 cup milk
  • 2 cups fresh cranberries

Sauce

  • 1 cup butter
  • 2 cups sugar
  • 1 cup cream or half-and-half
  • 2 teaspoon vanilla extract

Candied Cranberries

  • 1 cup water
  • 1 cup sugar
  • remaining cranberries 1-2 cups

Instructions

  1. Preheat your oven to 350.
  2. Mix together all cake ingredients but the cranberries. Start with the dry ingredients and then add the wet ingredients. After your cake batter is combined (don’t over mix) fold in your cranberries.
  3. Divide into greased loaf pans. You can use 1 large and two small or two large loaf pans or a large 9x13 glass pan.
  4. Bake for 25-30 minutes until a toothpick comes out clean. The smaller pans will bake faster.
  5. After baking, let cool for 5 minutes in the pan. Invert the cakes from the loaf pan onto a cooling rack.
  6. If you used a 9x13, just let it cool in the pan.
    This cake is served room temperature. The sauce will bring the warm element.

Sauce

  1. Combine all ingredients in saucepan over medium low heat and cook 10 minutes or until sugar is melted, stirring frequently. (Hint: After the sauce cools a bit, put it in a squeeze bottle for drizzling). (Hint: You can make the cake and sauce the day before you serve it. After the cakes cool wrap them up in plastic wrap for the next day. Make your sauce and then keep it in the fridge in Tupperware or squeeze bottle. Then reheat in microwave before serving.)

Candied Cranberries

  1. Add equal parts water and sugar to a pan and simmer leftover cranberries from baking the cake for 10 minutes. Cool on wax or parchment paper. Use for garnish

Plating your Cake

  1. Slice the small loaves and plate them with 3 slices together.
  2. Heat up your sauce and drizzle all 3 slices with plenty of the sauce. Place a few candied cranberries on/around the cakes for garnish.

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