You’ll love my Clementine Cranberry Pound Cake with a Clementine Glaze. It’s perfect for your next brunch, breakfast or dessert!
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As always I get started by gathering my ingredients aka mise en place.
This was a pretty easy cake to make and the glaze added an extra layer of orangy flavor to the cake!
It really is a wonderful pound cake recipe, pretty simple and adapts easily if you wanted to use something other than cranberries. Pecans would have been a nice addition!
If you like this recipe, you may like these:
- Meyer Lemon Pistachio Pound Cake (Starbucks Copycat Recipe)
- Peach Pecan Pound Cake
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Clementine Cranberry Pound Cake with a Clementine Glaze
Ingredients
Pound Cake
- 4 tablespoons clementine juice (or tangerine)
- 1 ½ cups cake flour
- ¼ teaspoon baking soda
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- 4 ounces butter- softened
- 1 ½ cups sugar
- 3 large eggs warmed 10 minutes in hot tap water
- ½ cup Greek yogurt
- 1 tablespoon tangerine zest
- 1 cup cranberries
Tangerine Glaze
- 1 ½ cups confectioners sugar
- 3 tablespoons clementine juice (or tangerine)
- 1 teaspoon tangerine zest
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees and butter and flour one standard size loaf pan
Pound Cake
- Using a zester or grater carefully remove the zest of the two tangerines, being careful not to get into the white part of the skin.
- In the bowl of a food processor, add the sugar and tangerine zest and pulse until well blended (5 or 6 times) You can do this by hand if you like.
- Allow this to set for 5 minutes to build the aromatics.
- Sift together the flour, salt and baking soda and set aside
- beat the butter in the bowl of your electric mixer for two minutes on medium to high speed (scrape down the bowl as needed)
- add half the sugar mixture and whip for an additional minute, then add the remainder and continue to whip the butter /sugar mixture for four more minutes, scraping down the bowl and blade as needed.
- Remove the eggs from the water, dry them off and add the eggs one at a time, beating for about 30 seconds in between each addition.
- On a very low-speed add in the flour mixture, mix until just blended.
- Add in the Greek Yogurt and clementine juice , mixing just enough to incorporate them.
- Add in cranberries, mixing just enough to incorporate and pour batter into prepared pan
- Place the cake on the center rack of your oven and bake for 55-60 minutes. (start checking your cake at around 50 minutes. It should be browned on top and a tester stuck in the middle should come out clean when the cake is done)
- Allow cake to cool on a wire rack for 15-20 minutes then remove from pan.
Clementine Glaze
- mix the clementine juice with the confectioners’ sugar and mix until well blended, then add zest.
- Allow glaze to set for 10 minutes before using.
- Top pound cake with glaze adding and additional coat as it drys.
- Slice pound cake and enjoy!
Nutrition
Grace
Hi, did you use fresh cranberries? or where they cooked to soften them?
Thank you
Chef Dennis Littley
I used fresh cranberries but you could use sugared cranberries
Laura Hall-Schordje
This sounds wonderful! Could I substitute all-purpose flour for the cake flour? Should I cut the flour down a little? Thanks for your help
Chef Dennis Littley
yes, you can use all-purpose flour the cake will just be a little denser. If you want to make your own cake flour remove 3 Tablespoons of flour and replace it with cornstarch. Make sure to sift the two ingredients together.
Toni | BoulderLocavore.com
How delicious! Perfect for the upcoming winter season too.
Charlene Williamson
I can see this made in a Bundt pan and served at Thanksgiving or Christmad. Thanks, Chef Dennis!
Chef Dennis Littley
it would great in a bundt pan!
liezel Fernandez Francisco
I want to learn more to ur recipes….
Tinh
Hi, how much flour do we use?
Chef Dennis Littley
Sorry about that Tinh, its 1 1/2 cups of cake flour