Cranberry Upside Down Cake
Servings:
16
prep time:
45 mins
cook time:
50 mins
Total time:
1 hour 35 mins
Ingredients
CAKE
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1 ½ cups all-purpose flour
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½ teaspoon baking powder
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¼ teaspoon baking soda
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½ teaspoon salt
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Vermont Creamery Unsalted Cultured Butter - 82% Butterfat, softened
½ cup
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1 cup granulated sugar
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2 large eggs
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½ cup milk
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1 teaspoon freshly grated orange zest
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1 teaspoon vanilla extract
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Vermont Creamery Mascarpone
1 cup
BROWN SUGAR AND CRANBERRY TOPPING
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Vermont Creamery Unsalted Cultured Butter - 82% Butterfat
½ cup
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1 cup firmly packed brown sugar
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1 ½ cups cranberries
SPIKEd CRèME FRAîCHE
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Vermont Creamery Crème Fraîche
½ cup
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2 tablespoons powdered sugar
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1 teaspoons aged whiskey
Directions
- Heat oven to 350ºF.
- Generously butter 8- to 9-inch round cake pan; set aside.
- Whisk together flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt in small bowl. Set aside.
- Cream 1/2 cup butter and granulated sugar in large bowl with electric mixer until pale and fluffy. Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating after each addition. Stir in milk, orange zest and vanilla until well mixed. Add flour mixture; stir until just combined. Gently whisk in mascarpone. Set aside.
- Combine 1/2 cup butter and brown sugar in small saucepan. Cook over medium-high heat, stirring occasionally, until butter has melted and incorporated with sugar. Pour into bottom of prepared cake pan; use spoon to spread evenly onto bottom of pan.
- Sprinkle cranberries in an even layer over the brown sugar sauce.
- Pour cake batter over cranberries; gently smooth batter into an even layer. Bake 40-45 minutes or until cake is set, lightly browned and slightly pulling away from edge of pan.
- Cool cake in pan 10 minutes, then invert onto cooling rack. Cool completely.
- Combine crème fraîche, powdered sugar and whiskey in small bowl. Gently stir until smooth.
- Serve thick wedges of cake topped with generous dollop of spiked crème fraîche.
