An easy recipe for a cake with cranberry topping. The cranberries caramelize in the brown sugar and are deliciously flavored with gingerbread spices. And the cake got a rich flavor. You're likely to want more than one slice.
This is one of my favorite cakes this year. A cake with a caramelized cranberry topping. The cranberries lie in the caramelized sugar, and the flavors are completely balanced.
For me cranberries really belong to winter season, also because of the intense red color. The small fruits make this cake a bit more festive.
And I'm going to make this cake more often for sure.
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📖 Recipe
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Equipment
- A conventional oven is used. When using a convection oven (with air fan) decrease the temperature with 30 °F / 20 °C
- loaf / pound cake tin 6 inches / 15 cm
Ingredients
Cranberry topping
- 50 grams dark brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon gingerbread spices
- 100 grams cranberries, fresh of frozen
Cranberry cake
- 100 grams butter, roomtemperature (+some extra for greasing your tin)
- 100 grams dark brown sugar
- 2 eggs, size L
- 100 grams self-rising flour
- ⅙ teaspoon salt
- 100 grams cranberries, fresh or frozen
Instructions
Preparations
- Preheat the oven to 430 degrees Fahrenheit (200 degrees Celsius).
- Butter the cake tin.
Cranberry topping
- Spread the fresh cranberries on the bottom of the tin.
- Sprinkle the brown sugar and gingerbread spices on top of the cake.
Cranberry cake
- Put the butter and the brown sugar in a bowl and mix for 3 minutes at high speed.
- Add the eggs, one by one (add the next egg when the first is fully incorporated in the batter).
- Sieve the self-rising flour and salt through the batter and mix with a spatula.
- Pour the batter on top of the cranberries.
- Put in the oven and bake for 40 minutes (check with a wooden skewer if the cake is done. The skewer should come out dry).
- Let the cake stand for 5 minutes at room temperature and then remove the tin.
- Let it cool down to room temperature on a wire rack.
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Angela says
Cranberries and gingerbread spice. What a delicious combination.
Ramona says
I made this last week and it was a really nice, I will be making this again with cherries.
Jessica Formicola says
This cake looks incredible! I love cranberry, so I can't wait to make this soon!
Leslie says
I love that your first picture of this cake is next to coffee because that's exactly how I would enjoy this! Carmelized cranberries with gingerbread just sounds heavenly! Great recipe!