Cranberry Pecan Pound Cake
From zena824 16 years ago
- 55 minutes to make
- Serves 12
This is an excellent recipe for company....goes so well with coffee. It appears light but it rich with flavor..
Ingredients
- 1 cup chopped pecans (about 5 oz) shopping list
- 1 1/2 cups cranberries shopping list
- 2 cups sugar shopping list
- 1 cup unsalted butter, at room temp shopping list
- 5 large eggs shopping list
- 1/4 cup sour cream shopping list
- 1/4 cup orange liqueur (Grand Mariner or triple sec) shopping list
- 2 teaspoons vanilla shopping list
- 1 teaspoon grated orange peel shopping list
- 1 1/4 cups all purpose flour shopping list
- 1 cup cake flour shopping list
- 1/2 teaspoon salt shopping list
- powdered sugar shopping list
How to make it
- Postion rack in center of oven and preheat to 350 degrees.
- Butter and flour a 2 1/2 quart tube cake pan or two 8 1/2 x 4 1/2 loaf pans.
- Place pecans on cookie sheet and bake unitl lightly colored and fragrant; about 10 minutes; cool
- Chop cranberries.
- Beat together sugar and butter in a large bowl until light and fluffy with an electric mixer, scraping sides of bowl once.
- Beat in eggs, one at a time.
- Beat in sour cream, then liquer, vanilla and orange zest.
- Sift all purpose flour, cake flour and salt together.
- With mixer on low speed, add dry ingredients to egg mixture and
- stop when all flour has been added.
- Mix by hand until just combined.
- Fold in pecans and cranberries.
- Pour batter into prepared cake pan.
- Tap pan on counter to release any air bubbles.
- Bake for about 45 minutes for loaf pans and about an hour for a tube pan until wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean.
- Cool cake in pan for 10 minutes.
- Turn out onto rack and cool completely.
- Wrap in plastic and refrigerate at least one hour and up to 3 days.
- Dust cake lightly with powdered sugar before serving.
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The Rating
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Ok! Another cranberry dessert for me to die for!
Thanks!
Signed:
"The Cranberry Fan" (Debbie~)
LOL!!! :D
pinkpasta
in Upstate loved it
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