Cranberry Sauce Upside Down

Cranberry Sauce Upside Down

Is it too early for cranberry sauce upside-down cake? We say NO! This delicious twist on a classic dessert will have your taste buds dancing. This Cranberry Sauce Upside Down Coffee Cake recipe has whole canned cranberries and pecans. This cranberry pecan cake will impress your guests with something unexpected for Thanksgiving or Christmas dinners or holiday parties.

Course Dessert

Cuisine American

Keyword Cranberry Coffee Cake, cranberry pecan cake, cranberry sauce coffee cake, Cranberry Sauce Upside Down Cake

Prep Time 15

Cook Time 40

Total Time 55

Servings

Calories 249kcal

Author Evelyn Osborn

Equipment

Ingredients

Ingredients for the Cranberry Pecan Topping:

1 tablespoon butter softened
⅓ cup brown sugar
¼ cup chopped pecans
1 can whole berry cranberry sauce

Ingredients for the Coffee Cake

1 ¼ cups flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoons ground ginger
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
½ teaspoon ground nutmeg
¼ teaspoon ground allspice
¼ teaspoon ground cloves
½ teaspoon salt
½ cup unsalted butter softened
1 cup brown sugar
2 large eggs
½ tablespoon fresh orange juice
1 tablespoon orange zest
½ cup milk
Powdered Sugar for dusting the top

Instructions

For the Cranberry Sauce Topping

Preheat your oven to 350° F and grease a 9 inch round cake pan with nonstick cooking spray. In a mixing bowl, stir together the softened butter, brown sugar, and chopped pecans.
Spread the butter, brown sugar, pecan mixture in the bottom of the cake pan.
Spoon and carefully spread a layer of the cranberry sauce over the top of the pecan sugar mixture and set it aside.

For the coffee cake

In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder, ginger, cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice, cloves, and salt. Set it aside.
In a separate bowl, beat together the butter, and brown sugar until light and fluffy.
Add the eggs one at a time into the cake batter beating them between each addition.
Mix in the orange juice and orange zest.
Add the dry ingredients and the milk, alternating the two ingredients and beating after each addition, until all the ingredients have been added.
Carefully spread the cake batter over the top of the cranberry sauce in the baking pan. Place the cake in the preheated oven and bake for 40 minutes, until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Remove it from the oven and place on cooling rack.
and carefully invert the pan onto a serving dish and allow the cake to cool completely before serving.
Dust the cranberry sauce coffee cake with powdered sugar before serving, if desired.

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