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.
Prep Time 10 minutesmins
Cook Time 40 minutesmins
Total Time 50 minutesmins
Course Sweets and Sweet Baking
Cuisine American
Servings 8slices
Calories 234kcal
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
50gramsdark brown sugar
1teaspoongingerbread spices
100grams cranberriesfresh of frozen
Cranberry cake
100gramsbutterroomtemperature (+some extra for greasing your tin)
100gramsdark brown sugar
2eggssize L
100gramsself-rising flour
⅙teaspoonsalt
100gramscranberriesfresh or frozen
Ingredients you need per step are listed below the step in Italic
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.