Cranberry Cake With Caramel Sauce Recipes

CRANBERRY-APPLE CAKE WITH SALTED CARAMEL GLAZE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a tube pan.
• Place flour, white sugar, oil, eggs, vanilla extract, baking soda, and salt in a mixing bowl. Beat using an electric mixer until smooth. Stir in apple, pecans, and cranberries until well blended. Pour batter into the prepared pan.
• Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, about 1 hour. Remove from the oven and set aside.
• Combine brown sugar, butter, and milk in a small saucepan. Bring mixture to a rolling boil over high heat; continue to boil, stirring occasionally, for 5 minutes. Remove from heat. Stir in vanilla extract and salt.
• Pour glaze over the hot cake. Let cake sit in the pan to cool and for glaze to set, about 2 hours.
• Remove cake from the pan. Place onto a plate, top-up; the glaze may puddle around the bottom edge of the cake. Serve when completely cool.

CRANBERRY CAKE WITH ALMOND-BUTTER SAUCE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°. Grease an 8-in. square baking pan., Beat butter and sugar until crumbly. Beat in milk. Whisk together flour, baking powder and salt; stir into butter mixture. Stir in cranberries. Transfer to prepared pan., Bake until a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean, 35-40 minutes. Cool in pan on a wire rack., For sauce, in a saucepan, melt butter over medium heat. Add sugar and cream; cook and stir until sugar is dissolved, about 5 minutes. Remove from heat; stir in extract. Serve warm with cake.

FRESH CRANBERRY CAKE WITH CARAMEL SAUCE

Steps:

• In a small bowl, beat butter and sugars until crumbly. Add egg and mix well.
• In a separate bowl, combine the flour, salt and baking powder and whisk well.
• Add the dry mix to the butter mixture, alternating with the milk.
• Fold in the cranberries.
• Pour into a well greased 9 inch square baking pan and bake at 350 degrees for 55 minutes or until a toothpick in the center comes out clean.
• SAUCE:.
• In a small saucepan, melt the butter then stir in the sugar and cream.
• Bring this to a boil, stirring constantly until mixture thickens.
• Remove from heat and serve over the warm cake.

CRANBERRY AND CORNMEAL CAKE WITH CARAMEL-WALNUT TOPPING SAUCE

Steps:

• Put an oven rack in the center of the oven. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Butter and flour a 9-inch round cake pan.
• In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, cornmeal, baking powder, salt, and orange zest. Measure 3 tablespoons of the flour mixture into a small bowl. Add the chopped cranberries and toss until coated. Using a stand mixer fitted with a paddle attachment, beat the butter and sugar on medium speed until light and fluffy, about 2 minutes. Beat in the vanilla extract. Add the egg yolks and whole eggs, 1 at a time. Gradually add the flour mixture and mix until just incorporated. Using a spatula, gently fold in the cranberries.
• Pour the batter into the prepared cake pan and smooth the surface with a spatula. Bake until the cake is golden brown, and a cake tester inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean, about 40 minutes. Cool for 20 minutes. Remove the cake from the pan and transfer to a wire rack to cool completely. Cut the cake into wedges, arrange on a serving platter and serve with the Caramel Walnut Sauce. (The cake can be made 1 day ahead. Store airtight in a plastic container.)
• In a medium saucepan, mix together the cream, brown sugar, and butter over medium-high heat. Bring the mixture to a boil, stirring constantly. Reduce the heat and simmer until the mixture thickens, about 25 to 30 minutes. Stir in the walnuts and sea salt, if using. Allow the mixture to cool to room temperature before serving.

CRANBERRY CARAMEL SAUCE

Steps:

• In a food processor purée cranberries and transfer to a small bowl.
• In a dry heavy saucepan cook sugar over moderate heat, stirring with a fork, until melted and cook, without stirring, swirling pan, until a golden caramel. Remove pan from heat and carefully add water and cranberry purée (caramel will steam and harden). Return pan to heat and simmer sauce, stirring, 10 minutes, or until caramel is dissolved. Pour sauce through a fine sieve into a heatproof bowl, pressing hard on solids, and cool completely. Sauce may be made 4 days ahead and chilled, covered. Bring sauce to room temperature before serving.