Cranberry Sauce Over Pound Cake A La Mode Recipes

CRANBERRY SAUCE OVER POUND CAKE A LA MODE

Steps:

• Place a small saucepan, over moderate heat and add butter. Work close to the stove and add apples and pear to the pot as you chop them. Sprinkle the fruit with brown sugar, a teaspoon of lemon juice and nutmeg. Add cider and raise heat a little. Allow liquid to come to a boil, then add cranberry sauce to the pot. When sauce returns to a boil, turn heat back to moderate, and cook sauce 5 minutes until apples and pears are softened but sauce remains fairly chunky in consistency. Spoon the warm fruit sauce over pound cake slices and top with scoops of vanilla ice cream.

CRANBERRY POUND CAKE WITH CRANBERRY GLAZE

Steps:

• Cake: Preheat oven to 350F with shelf in middle of oven.
• Butter and flour 3-quart bundt cake pan.
• In large bowl of electric mixer, cream butter; add sugar, a little at a time, until light and fluffy; add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each.
• Sift flour, baking powder, baking soda, ginger and salt; add to creamed mixture alternately with buttermilk (begin and end with flour); fold in cranberries; spoon batter into prepared cake pan; smooth the top.
• Bake 1-1/4 hours or until tester comes out clean; cool on rack 10 minutes; turn out; allow to cool completely.
• Glaze: In heavy saucepan, over moderate heat, cook sugar and water; stir and wash down crystals on side of pan with brush dipped in water; add cranberries; bring to a boil; boil, undisturbed, until mixture reaches 250F;.
• strain through fine sieve, pressing hard on solids;.
• allow to cool slightly; brush on cake.

CRANBERRY SAUCE BUNDT CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• In a large mixing bowl, cream together butter and sugar.
• Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition.
• Stir in extract.
• Combine flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt.
• Add to the creamed mixture alternately with the sour cream, beating well after each addition.
• Spoon one-third of the batter into a greased and floured 10-inch Bundt pan.
• In a small bowl, pour out whole berry cranberry sauce and stir ingredients together as in the can they are separated.
• Top the cake mixture with one-third of the cranberry sauce (make sure not to bring it to the sides as it is difficult to remove from the pan).
• Repeat layers two times.
• Sprinkle top with finely chopped pecans.
• Bake at 350 degrees for 65-70 minutes or until toothpick inserted near the center comes out clean.
• Cool for 10 minutes before removing cake from pan onto a wire rack.
• Cool completely then place on cake plate.
• Combine icing ingredients until smooth.
• Drizzle icing over cake.
• Let set before serving.