Cranberry Orange Vanilla Cake is an experiment when I needed a Christmas Cake recipe for an upcoming event and to create a new recipe for Christmas Cake for an upcoming Holiday Cake Roundup of blogger recipes. I knew that I have had cranberry bread with orange flavoring and orange peel in it and cranberries and oranges seem to naturally compliment each other. So I decided that Cranberry Orange Vanilla Cake would be a perfect cake and certainly be perfect for the holiday season.
Cranberry Filled Cake with Orange Icing
On the day I was planning to make the Cranberry Orange Vanilla Cake I was asked to babysit for the “little sweet one” below and being the grammy that I am, of course I said yes. I had the cake made before she got there and all I had to do was make the cranberry sauce and the orange frosting and assemble the cake, the hard part but fun part.
WHERE’S THE CAKE?
Somehow when I wasn’t looking a piece of cake went missing ? What? I’m calling it “The Case of the Missing Piece of Cake”. I’m not saying she is guilty but she sure looks suspicious!!!
The cake is a three layer cake and with one piece of the cake missing it would not be easy to decorate but somehow I pulled it off by using extra orange frosting in the missing area.
CRANBERRY ORANGE VANILLA CAKE
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Cranberry Filled Cake with Orange Icing
First make the cake and let it cool. This cake recipe is an adaptation of The Best White Cake Recipe at Add A Pinch. While the cake is cooling make the cranberry sauce. Use a large bag of cranberries, sugar, water, orange juice and orange peel and let it cook until it is the consistency of jam. The cranberries will break apart as they cook and become jam like. You will be looking for a sweet and tart taste with a hint of orange.
MAKING THE CRANBERRY JELLY
It reminds me of homemade cranberry sauce that you would eat for Thanksgiving. It was so good that I ended up making another batch and using it for cranberry sauce for our Thanksgiving dinner. It was pretty popular.
CRANBERRY AND ORANGE TOPPED VANILLA CAKE
CRANBERRY AND ORANGE TOPPED VANILLA CAKE
That looks fabulous. I’ve made several cranberry upside down cakes, but nothing as spectacular as this.
Oh, thank you Choclette. My husband loved it. It was a large cake and we ended up freezing half of it and it was just as good when it thawed.
Looks amazing! I love the combination of cranberry and orange. The vanilla cake just takes it over the top. Pinned!
Thanks Jerry. We loved it!
Well at least your suspect is adorable. I have my own culprit around these parts too. Love the flavors in this cake, I know I’d enjoy it thoroughly.
Yes she is adorable (sometimes) 🙂 The cake was a big hit!
I love the cranberry sauce on this cake. It is perfect for Christmas
True, it is the perfect Christmas cake. Thank you Christie!
How pretty! This looks absolutely delicious!
That’s Marye, it was very good!
How adorable the missing cake piece suspect is though 🙂 This cake looks so festive and perfect for the holidays! I’m not a huge fan of cranberries on their own, but the flavor combo with orange and vanilla sounds wonderful.
Lol, she is adorable sometimes! I’m not a huge fan of cranberries either but this combination seems to work well and was delicious!
Very pretty and I/m sure it’s delicious too, As for the missing part, my darling brother could teach your granddaughter a thing or two about that. He always ate my cakes from UNDERNEATH–so his pranks couldn’t be spotted until I cut into the cake. 🙂
Lol, that is a funny prank from your brother! She isn’t that sneaky yet but it’s coming I can tell.
Cranberries are a seriously underrated fruit. The orange cream cheese frosting sounds like a perfect compliment to the cranberry sauce and cake!
We really enjoyed the combination. Thanks Kirsten.