A beautiful and festive dessert, Easy Cranberry Cake with Hard Sauce will make a unique sweet ending for your Christmas meal. Full of fresh tart cranberries, this cake has it all; the colors of the season, a winning combination of flavors and textures, and the creamy, blissful yumminess of a decadent hard sauce.
2-½cupsfresh cranberriescan use frozen cranberries
Hard Sauce Ingredients:
1cupunsalted butter
1-⅔cupsgranulated sugar
1cupheavy cream
Instructions
Cranberry Cake Directions:
Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F.
Add butter, sugar, vanilla, flour, salt, milk, and cornstarch to a large bowl and mix with an electric mixer for 2-3 minutes.
Fold in cranberries and gently stir to combine with the cake batter.
Pour the cake batter into a 2-quart casserole dish which has been sprayed with non-stick cooking spray and bake for 30 minutes or until the batter is just set and the top has started to brown.
Hard Sauce Directions:
While the cake bakes, combine butter, sugar, and cream in a small saucepan over medium-low heat. Stir occasionally until the butter melts and the mixture is smooth and creamy.
To Serve:
To serve, pour a healthy amount of the Hard Sauce over each piece of cake.