Coffee Cake- Cranberry Orange Pecan

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Cranberry Orange Pecan Coffee Cake

Coffee Cake- Cranberry Orange Pecan
 
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A guest of mine, Brian Kerestes, took one of our recipes, the Blueberry Almond Pound Cake, and adapted it for the holidays.  He eliminated a few things and added a few.  After trying it, I came up with three suggestions of my own which I have shown in parenthesis.  One comment, don’t wait till the holidays to make it; he came up with a winner! (The only area of real departure-- I missed not having nuts. I’d take 1T of Butter and melt in on the stove, add 1T of brown sugar and stir till bubbly, then add a ¾ C of chopped pecans stirring to coat. Dump out on a piece of waxed paper and let cool for a few minutes. Then, after spraying the bundt pan, spread the pecans on the bottom before pouring the batter on top as directed below.)
Ingredients
Cake:
  • ¾ cup butter softened
  • 6oz cream cheese softened
  • 1 ½ t cinnamon (1 t of cinnamon)
  • ½ t nutmeg
  • 1 t vanilla
  • ½ t orange zest – he used the dried, Valencia Orange zest, which I found at Wal-Mart… (but I didn’t think it was quite strong enough. I would suggest using however much fresh orange zest you can get off of one orange.)
  • 2 C sugar
  • 4 eggs
  • 1 ½ C all-purpose flour
  • 1 ½ t baking powder
  • 1¼ t salt
  • 10 oz fresh cranberries or frozen whole cranberries (not thawed). (I used 6-8 oz of dried cranberries the first time I made this. See photo above. Soaked them in hot water for a few minutes, then patted them dry. I made this in April and couldn’t find fresh or frozen cranberries anywhere. Since then, I buy a mess of cranberries at Christmas and freeze them for this recipe and others. If you use frozen cranberries, I had to bake it for 75 minutes. Using dried cranberries it was ready to come out of the oven at 60 minutes.)
Orange Flavored Glaze:
  • 1-2 C Powder sugar
  • 2 T Orange Juice
Instructions
  1. Heat oven to 350 degree.
  2. Combine butter, cream cheese, sugar and cream/beat until fluffy.
  3. Add eggs one at a time and beat.
  4. Add baking powder, salt;, cinnamon and nutmeg and beat briefly.
  5. Add flour and mix on low speed.
  6. Hand mix in orange zest, or it will all stick to your beaters.
  7. Grease a 12-cup bundt cake pan and pour ½ the batter into it.
  8. Flour the frozen cranberries and fold into remaining batter.
  9. Add remaining batter to bundt pan.
  10. The cranberries have a tendency to sink and most will end up on the bottom, or top of the cake when you flip it. Bake for 60-75 minutes.
  11. Let cool for 10-15 minutes before flipping out of bundt pan.
  12. Drizzle with glaze

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