Spiced Orange and Cranberry Cake is so warm from the mild spices, a bit tart from the juicy cranberries and has a citrusy aroma from the oranges! These flavors come together so beautifully in this cake, making it the most perfect bake for the Holiday season! 🙂 

Spiced Orange and Cranberry Cake

Spiced Orange and Cranberry Cake is moist from the orange juice and the splash of milk. It keeps fresh for almost a week if stored correctly, wrapped in some cling inside an airtight container. This cake also makes for the best sort of edible gift for friends and family. Minimal efforts, for one thing and it is so pretty! I mean, you can make it look so Christmassy ;p All I did was dust the cake with some icing sugar for the fresh snowy look and took it from there as to how I wanted it to sit on my table 🙂 Easy, peasy and breezy!

Spiced Orange and Cranberry Cake

Spiced Orange and Cranberry Cake is also a great recipe for people who avoid baking boozy cakes or do not wish to soak the nuts and fruits in alcohol. This gets done in hour or so! I chose to add cranberries because the spices and the citrus flavors from the orange juice works well the tartness of the berries. However, you may replace those for prunes, raisins or some blueberries too! 🙂

Spiced Orange and Cranberry Cake

Spiced Orange and Cranberry Cake has the most beautiful texture on slicing it down. This cake holds it shape and that makes it easy for the cake to travel! Besides, I love a slightly dense cake because the crumbs just make a big mess and a cake which is dry and crumbly is not a cake that I personally like!

Spiced Orange and Cranberry Cake

Spiced Orange and Cranberry Cake is to be baked low and slow. That is how you end up with that beautiful brown crust on the cake. However the top may dome a tiny bit, you can slice that right off so the you get a lovely flat top. You can then decorate the cake as you like or keep it plain.

A few other things you can bake for Christmas are
Egg free Tutti Frutti cake (Britannia Style)
Egg free Tutti Frutti cookies/ Karachi cookies
Vanilla Marshmallows
Chocolate Truffles (eggless)

Spiced Orange and Cranberry Cake

Let’s start.

Preheat the oven @180’c. Line the base of the tin with parchment paper/ baking paper and grease and dust the sides well.

Spiced Orange and Cranberry Cake

In a medium size bowl, sieve together the flour, ground nutmeg, ground cloves, ground cinnamon, baking powder and baking soda. Set it aside. Dust the cranberries with some flour and set them aside.

Next, in a large mixing bowl, whisk together the butter and powdered sugar until light and fluffy. I used an electric whisk and it took me about 3-4 mins of whisking. Now add one egg at a time and whisk the butter and sugar mixture with the eggs until light and fluffy once again.

Spiced Orange and Cranberry Cake

Now, add the sieved flour mixture and milk in the egg-butter-sugar mixture alternately and fold the mixture with a silicon spatula. Do not mix with a heavy hand else all the air whisked in the eggs will escape. Then add the orange juice and the cranberries. Mix well.

Spiced Orange and Cranberry Cake Spiced Orange and Cranberry Cake Spiced Orange and Cranberry Cake

Pour the batter in the tin and bake @ 170’c using the lower heating rods/ coil for 60 mins approximately or until a skewer inserted in the center of the cake comes out clean or with a few moist crumbs. Note that every oven works differently so keep an eye on the temperature and the duration of the bake.

Spiced Orange and Cranberry Cake

I prefer baking my cakes low and slow, low temperature takes longer to bake the cake but ensures it rises well without any cracks on the top.

Once the cake is baked, remove it from the oven and cool it on a rack for 15 mins in the tin, then unmould it and cool it for a further 30 mins. Dust the top with some icing sugar. Slice it and serve.

Spiced Orange and Cranberry Cake

Spiced Orange and Cranberry Cake

Spiced Orange and Cranberry Cake is so warm from the mild spices, a bit tart from the juicy cranberries and has a citrusy aroma from the oranges! These flavors come together so beautifully in this cake, making it the most perfect bake for the Holiday season! 

Course Christmas, Dessert, Tea Time
Cuisine American
Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 1 hour
Total Time 1 hour 20 minutes
Servings 1 7 inch cake
Author Shreya Ashish Tiwari

Ingredients

  • 2 cup all purpose flour (Maida)
  • 1.5 cup powdered sugar
  • 4 nos. eggs @ room tempearture
  • 100 grams unsalted butter @ room tempearture
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • 1/2 tsp ground clove
  • 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
  • 1/4 tsp ground nutmeg
  • 1/4 cup milk
  • 1/2 cup fresh orange juice
  • 1/2 cup dried cranberries
  • icing sugar to dust the cake optional

Instructions

  1. Preheat the oven @180'c. Line the base of the tin with parchment paper/ baking paper and grease and dust the sides well.

  2. In a medium size bowl, seive together the flour, ground nutmeg, ground cloves, ground cinnamon, baking powder and baking soda. Set it aside. Dust the cranberries with some flour and set them aside.

  3. Next, in a large mixing bowl, whisk together the butter and powdered sugar until light and fluffy. I used an electric whisk and it took me about 3-4 mins of whisking. Now add one egg at a time and whisk the butter and sugar mixture with the eggs until light and fluffy once again.

  4. Now, add the seived flour mixture and milk in the egg-butter-sugar mixture alternately and fold the mixture with a silicon spatula. Do not mix with a heavy hand else all the air whisked in the eggs will escape. Then add the orange juice and the cranberries. Mix well.

  5. Pour the batter in the tin and bake @ 170'c using the lower heating rods/ coil for 60 mins approximately or until a skewer inserted in the centre of the cake comes out clean or with a few moist crumbs. Note that every oven works differently so keep an eye on the temperature and the duration of the bake.

  6. I prefer baking my cakes low and slow, low temperature takes longer to bake the cake but ensures it rises well without any cracks on the top.

  7. Once the cake is baked, remove it from the oven and cool it on a rack for 15 mins in the tin, then unmould it and cool it for a further 30 mins. Dust the top with some icing sugar. Slice it and serve. 

Love,
Shreya💖

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10 comments on “Spiced Orange and Cranberry Cake”

  1. Hi, Read the recipe of spiced orange and cranberry cake. Looks beautiful and delicious. However I don’t have eggs. What can I use instead of eggs? If you can give me an alternative , I shall try to bake one for my kids. Thank you in advance 🙂

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    • Hi Manisha, thank you stopping by!! Glad you liked the cake. Try replacing each egg with 1/4 cup of thick yogurt. Make sure it doesn’t have any water. Hope it works, let me know how it goes😊 Happy Holidays!! ☃️

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