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Cranberry Upside Down Cake

Servings:

16

prep time:

45 mins

cook time:

50 mins

Total time:

1 hours 35 mins

Ingredients

Directions

Ingredients

CAKE

  • 1 ½ cups all-purpose flour

  • ½ teaspoon baking powder

  • ¼ teaspoon baking soda

  • ½ teaspoon salt

  • Vermont Creamery Unsalted Cultured Butter - 82% Butterfat

    ½ cup softened

  • 1 cup sugar

  • 2 eggs

  • 1 teaspoon orange zest

  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

  • ½ cup milk

  • Vermont Creamery Mascarpone

    1 cup

  • BROWN SUGAR AND CRANBERRY TOPPING

  • Vermont Creamery Unsalted Cultured Butter - 82% Butterfat

    ½ cup

  • 1 cup brown sugar

  • 1 ½ cups cranberries

  • SPIKE CRèME FRAîCHE

  • Vermont Creamery Crème Fraîche

    ½ cup

  • 2 tablespoons powdered sugar

  • 1 teaspoons aged whiskey

  • Directions

    1. Heat oven to 350º
    2. Generously butter an 8- to 9-inch round cake pan and set aside
    3. Whisk together flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt in small bowl. Set aside.
    4. Cream butter and sugar in large bowl with an electric mixer until pale and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating after each addition. Stir in orange zest, vanilla, and milk until well mixed. Add flour mixture; stir until just combined. Gently whisk in mascarpone. Set aside
    5. Place 1/2 cup butter and brown sugar in small saucepan. Cook over medium-high heat, stirring occasionally, until butter has melted and incorporated with the sugar. Pour into bottom of prepared cake pan; use a spoon to spread evenly onto bottom of pan
    6. Sprinkle cranberries in an even layer over the brown sugar sauce.
    7. Pour cake batter over cranberries and gently smooth batter into an even layer. Bake 40-45 minutes or until cake is set, lightly browned and slightly pulling away from edges of pan
    8. Cool cake in pan for 10 minutes, then invert onto cooling rack. Cool completely
    9. Combine crème fraiche, powdered sugar, and whiskey in small bowl. Gently stir until smooth
    10. Serve thick wedges of the cake topped with a generous dollop of spiked crème fraiche.