This moist and comfortable White Chocolate Cranberry Pound Cake is so decadent and scrumptious. The mix of candy, wealthy white chocolate and shiny, tart cranberries is so flavorful- it’s the good dessert for fall and winter celebrations, and is so fairly when sliced!
Elements at a Look
Yow will discover the complete, printable recipe on the backside of this submit. Here’s a fast on the star components.
- White Chocolate– We used Ghirardelli white chocolate chips. (We have additionally used Ghirardelli white chocolate baking bars with good outcomes).
- Unsalted Butter– We used unsalted since we added our salt individually. If utilizing salted butter, you’ll be able to omit the salt.
- Heavy Cream– Provides richness and velvety comfortable texture (simply as with our whipping cream pound cake).
- Cake Flour– The low protein content material of cake flour makes for an comfortable, tender cake.
- Baking Powder & Salt
- Vanilla Extract– We used pure vanilla extract
- Cranberries (recent or frozen) which will probably be sliced into smaller items.
How one can Make White Chocolate Cranberry Cake
Yow will discover the recipe card is on the backside of this submit, here’s a fast have a look at our steps!
- Preheat oven to 325 levels F. Grease and flour tube pan or 10 or 12 cup bundt pan.
- Chop the cranberries into small items. We positioned the sliced cranberries in a strainer and rinsed them to clean away many of the seeds. (Cranberry seeds are tiny & comfortable, it’s okay to have some seeds.) Gently pat dry and put aside.
- In a microwave protected bowl, pour heavy cream over 5 oz. white chocolate (we used white chocolate Ghirardelli chips) and microwave for 30 seconds. Stir, then proceed in smaller increments till the chocolate is nearly melted. Stir till clean and utterly melted and nicely mixed. Put aside.
- In a separate bowl whisk the cake flour, salt, and baking powder for 30 seconds to mix, put aside for later.
- Cream the softened butter on medium pace with an electrical mixer (use a paddle attachment if utilizing a stand mixer). Add the vanilla extract. Step by step add the sugar and beat till lightened in coloration and fluffy 3 to five minutes.
- Add the room temperature eggs separately, ready a couple of seconds after every addition till yolk has blended.
- With the mixer on low pace, add the flour combination alternately with the white chocolate/cream combination to the butter, sugar, egg combination. Start and finish with the dry components. I add the dry components 3 instances and moist components twice. Combine simply till blended.
- Gently stir within the sliced cranberries.
- Scoop the batter into the ready bundt pan or tube pan and use the again of a spoon to clean.
- Bake at 325 levels for 70-80 minutes or till a toothpick or lengthy skewer comes out clear or with just some crumbs connected. Baking instances could fluctuate relying on pan, and so forth. and so it’s best to peek in at across the one hour mark and modify time accordingly.
Adorning the Cake
We topped our cake with a glaze of melted white chocolate. We positioned white chocolate chips right into a microwave protected bowl, and heated in small increments till nearly melted. Then, we stirred till clean.
The melted white chocolate can both be spooned over the cake, or utilized utilizing a disposable piping bag with the tip snipped away.
Extra White Chocolate Truffles
We’ve extra white chocolate muffins so that you can strive! Do not miss our white chocolate velvet cake, white chocolate raspberry cake, and extra!
Additionally, if you happen to love cranberry muffins, we’ve got an amazing cranberry orange cake and white chocolate cranberry layer cake as nicely!
Thanks a lot for stopping by in the present day! We hope you take pleasure in this white chocolate cranberry pound cake as a lot as we’ve got. Make sure that to take a look at our full assortment of cake recipes in addition to cake adorning tutorials!
For the White Chocolate Glaze
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Preheat oven to 325 levels F. Grease and flour tube pan or 10 or 12 cup bundt pan.
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Chop the cranberries into small items. We positioned the sliced cranberries in a strainer and rinsed them to clean away many of the seeds. (Seeds are comfortable, it’s okay to have some seeds.) Gently pat dry and put aside.
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In a microwave protected bowl, pour heavy cream over 5 oz. white chocolate and microwave for 30 seconds. Stir, then proceed in smaller increments till the chocolate is nearly melted. Stir till clean and utterly melted and nicely mixed. Put aside.
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In a separate bowl whisk the cake flour, salt, and baking powder for 30 seconds to mix, put aside for later.
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Cream the softened butter on medium pace with an electrical mixer (use a paddle attachment if utilizing a stand mixer). Add the vanilla extract. Step by step add the sugar and beat till lightened in coloration and fluffy 3 to five minutes.
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Add the room temperature eggs separately, ready a couple of seconds after every addition till yolk has blended.
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With the mixer on low pace, add the flour combination alternately with the white chocolate/cream combination to the butter, sugar, egg combination. Start and finish with the dry components. I add the dry components 3 instances and moist components twice. Combine simply till blended.
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Gently stir within the sliced cranberries.
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Scoop the batter into the ready bundt pan or tube pan and use the again of a spoon to clean.
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Bake at 325 levels for 70-80 minutes or till a toothpick or lengthy skewer comes out clear or with just some crumbs connected. Baking instances could fluctuate relying on pan, and so forth. and so it’s best to peek in at across the one hour mark and modify time accordingly. This recipe makes roughly 8 cups of batter.
Making use of the White Chocolate Drip
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Soften the white chocolate within the microwave in very small increments (15-20 seconds or much less), stirring in between, till nearly utterly melted. Then stir till clean.
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You’ll be able to spoon over the cake, however we utilized ours with a disposable piping bag with the tip snipped away.
Bundt Pan or Tube Pan: We used a ten inch bundt pan for this recipe. In case your bundt pan is smaller than this, simply just remember to don’t fill your pan greater than ¾ of the best way full. In any other case, it could overflow when baking.