Spiced Cranberry Bundt Cake
A festive bundt cake featuring fresh and dried cranberries, enriched with almond flour and warming spices like Chinese five-spice, cinnamon, and ginger. Topped with a sweet orange glaze, this moist cake combines Greek yogurt and butter for perfect texture.
Ingredients
- •2 cups all purpose flour
- •¾ cup almond flour or almond meal* (about 2 1/2 ounces)
- •2½ teaspoons Chinese five-spice powder
- •1 teaspoon baking powder
- •½ teaspoon baking soda
- •½ teaspoon salt
- •½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
- •½ teaspoon ground ginger
- •1 cup unsalted butter
- •1 cup sugar
- •1 cup golden brown sugar
- •3 whole large eggs
- •1½ teaspoons vanilla extract
- •1 cup plain reduced-fat Greek-style yogurt
- •1 cup chopped toasted almonds
- •1 cup fresh or frozen cranberries
- •½ cup dried sweetened cranberries
- •⅔ cup powdered sugar
- •4 teaspoons orange juice
Cooking Instructions
- 1.
Preheat oven to 350°F. Butter and flour 12-cup Bundt pan. Whisk first 8 ingredients in medium bowl to blend. Using electric mixer, beat butter in large bowl until smooth. Add both sugars and beat until fluffy, about 3 minutes. Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating 1 minute after each addition. Beat in vanilla extract, then Greek-style yogurt. Add dry ingredients; beat just until blended. Fold in almonds and all cranberries. Transfer batter to prepared Bundt pan.
15 min
- 2.
Bake cake until tester inserted near center comes out clean, about 1 hour 10 minutes. Cool cake in pan 10 minutes. Turn cake out onto rack and cool completely.
80 min
- 3.
Stir powdered sugar and 2 teaspoons orange juice in small bowl until sugar dissolves. Mix in more juice by 1/2 teaspoonfuls to reach consistency of heavy cream. Spoon icing over cake, allowing it to drip down sides. Let stand until icing sets, at least 30 minutes. DO AHEAD: Can be made 3 days ahead. Cover with cake dome and store at room temperature.
35 min
- 4.
Sometimes labeled "ground almonds"; available at specialty foods stores and natural foods stores.
- 5.
** A spice blend that usually contains ground fennel seeds, Szechuan peppercorns, cinnamon, star anise, and cloves; available in the spice section of most supermarkets and online at penzeys.com.
- 6.
Greek-style yogurt is especially thick and rich, even the reduced-fat variety.
