Make a delicious treat by swirling in cranberries and making this Cranberry-Orange Coffee Cake. A perfect way to start the day for your family and guests.
Is there anything better a nice piece of coffee cake in the morning with your coffee or tea? There isn’t for me. This cake is such the perfect mix of sweet and crunch with the toasted pecans. In fact, I liked it so much, I knew I had to get this cake out of the house…so I gave all of it away. Minus this delicious piece. I would have eaten the whole thing otherwise.
It’s the perfect, perfect treat for this time of year!
Well, I have to run as Thanksgiving Day preparations must begin and the snow has begun to fall outside….a perfect evening.
Preheat oven to 350o F. Grease and flour (really well) a 12 cup tube or Bundt pan. In a bowl, whisk flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt. In a separate bowl, mix sour cream and vanilla.
In a large bowl using an electric mixer on medium speed, cream butter, both sugars and orange zest until fluffy and light, about 2 minutes. Beat in eggs, one at a time. Scrape down bowl. Beat in half the flour mixture, then all of the sour cream, then remaining flour, beating until just combined. Fold in pecans.
In a medium saucepan, warm cranberry sauce over medium-low heat, stirring, until softened. Spread 1/3 of the batter in the pan. Spread 1/2 of cranberry sauce over. Repeat layers, ending with last 1/3 of cake batter.
Gently run a skewer or thin knife through batter to swirl cranberry sauce in a marble pattern. Bake cake until skewer inserted in center comes out clean, 55 to 65 minutes. Let cake cool in pan on a wire rack for 10 minutes; unmold onto rack to cool completely.
When cake is cool, whisk together confectioners’ sugar and juice until glaze is smooth and has desired consistency (add more juice or sugar if too thick or thin). Drizzle glaze over cake. Let stand until glaze sets, about 10 minutes.
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Cranberry-Orange Coffee Cake
Ingredients
Cake:
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
- 1-1/2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon table salt
- 1-1/2 cups sour cream, room temperature
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 12 Tablespoons unsalted butter, softened
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1/2 cup packed dark brown sugar
- zest of one orange
- 3 large eggs, room temperature
- 3/4 cup chopped pecans, toasted
- 1 (14 oz) can whole berry cranberry sauce
Glaze:
- 1 cup confectioners' sugar
- 1-1/2 Tablespoons orange juice
Directions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease and flour (really well) a 12 cup tube or Bundt pan. In a bowl, whisk flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt. In a separate bowl, mix sour cream and vanilla.
- In a large bowl using an electric mixer on medium speed, cream butter, both sugars and orange zest until fluffy and light, about 2 minutes. Beat in eggs, one at a time. Scrape down bowl. Beat in half the flour mixture, then all of the sour cream, then remaining flour, beating until just combined. Fold in pecans.
- In a medium saucepan, warm cranberry sauce over medium-low heat, stirring, until softened. Spread 1/3 of the batter in the pan. Spread 1/2 of cranberry sauce over. Repeat layers, ending with last 1/3 of cake batter.
- Gently run a skewer or thin knife through batter to swirl cranberry sauce in a marble pattern. Bake cake until skewer inserted in center comes out clean, 55 to 65 minutes. Let cake cool in pan on a wire rack for 10 minutes; unmold onto rack to cool completely.
- When cake is cool, whisk together confectioners' sugar and juice until glaze is smooth and has desired consistency (add more juice or sugar if too thick or thin). Drizzle glaze over cake. Let stand until glaze sets, about 10 minutes.
Laura says
Baking powder is listed twice in the ingredients. I’m sure one is supposed to be baking soda. Which one?
Sara in NY says
I love the idea of using whole-berry cranberry sauce in here,as it’s already sweetened. Very nice. I can’t wait to try it.
Noble Pig says
Thanks for noticing, I’ll correct it!!
Banana Wonder says
Love how this has actual cranberry sauce in it!
theUngourmet says
Such a gorgeous cake. I love the combination of orange and cranberry. I made mini loaves with this same combination. Have a wonderful Thanksgiving!
jancd says
I made this cake tonight, so we could have it for breakfast in the morning and we could hardly wait for it to cool to try a slice tonight. It smelled wonderful while it was baking and the wait was worth it. Thanks for the great pre-Thanksgiving snack.
Chris S says
I made this cake as part of our Thanksgiving festivities, and it was absolutely wonderful. I have a secret addiction to the cranberry orange muffins at Target’s bakery, and have searched for a recipe with a similar flavor and texture. This is it! This cake lived up to my expectations and then some. I think I’ll make mini ones for teacher gifts this year.
Chris S says
I made this recipe into muffins today for a bake sale, and they were a huge hit. The recipe makes 24 regular sized muffins with about a 25 minute bake time. I filled the muffin cups about halfway with batter, then added cranberry sauce (about 3 berries plus some sauce in each), then filled nearly to the top with batter. I made the glaze a little thicker than normal for the tops so that it wouldn’t run down the sides. Thanks again for such a great recipe!
carol says
I tried this but it separated into layers so I also tried it swirling the cranberry sauce into the batter b4 putting into the muffin pans & liked that better. Did yours do that?
Cathy says
No, I’ve never had that issue. You did use cranberry sauce and not jellied cranberry right?
LOUISE says
BEST EVERCOFFEECAKE MY FAMILY LOVED IT IS VERY MOIST AND DID NOT DRY OUT. TOTALLY AWESOME.
Christine (CookTheStory) says
Wonderful flavor combination. This cake would be a great way to use my left over cranberry sauce.
Nancy Hopkirk says
I made this wonderful bundt cake this afternoon…Fantastic, only change is I had my own homemade cranberry-orange sauce, I always keep some in the freezer for turkey sandwiches, I stock up on fresh cranberries in the fall and freeze them.
Thank you ! Delish !
Sam says
This was SO good! I’m not a great baker nor am I really comfortable baking. This sounded so good, I wanted to serve it for my family Christmas celebration. It was outstanding!
Cathy says
So glad to hear it.
Nelvis says
can this be baked and freeze, then add glaze before serving?
Cathy says
I’ve never done it, but I don’t see why not.
pauline says
Could I use fresh made cranberry sauce ?
Cathy says
You can try it. I can’t promise it will turn out perfectly since all recipes are so different, especially the sugar content.
Dotty says
what is the nutrient chart – calories – total fat etc?
Melissa says
Can I use a regular cake pan to make this? I don’t have a bundt cake pan at the moment.
Aunna says
This cake is fabulous! I had to make some substitutions because I was not able to run to the store. I used granulated orange peel because I had no fresh orange. I only had 1 cup sour cream so I used that plus 1/2 cup half & half. I only had jellies cranberry sauce so I used half the can plus 1/2 cup dried cranberries. The taste, color and texture were all perfect! I’ll be adding this recipe to my favorites file!
Lisa says
Hi, I love cranberry and orange baked goods. I was wondering, since the cranberry sauce is sweetened and the glaze is sweet…have you tried it with less sugar in the cake recipe? If so, how did it turn out? Thanks.
Cathy says
I have not, sorry.