White Chocolate Cranberry Pound Cake

This moist and tender White Chocolate Cranberry Pound Cake is so decadent and scrumptious. The mixture of candy, wealthy white chocolate and vivid, tart cranberries is so flavorful- it’s the good dessert for fall and winter celebrations, and is so fairly when sliced!

Components at a Look

Yow will discover the complete, printable recipe on the backside of this publish. Here’s a fast on the star elements.

• White Chocolate– We used Ghirardelli white chocolate chips. (We have additionally used Ghirardelli white chocolate baking bars with good outcomes).
• Unsalted Butter– We used unsalted since we added our salt individually. If utilizing salted butter, you’ll be able to omit the salt.
• Heavy Cream– Provides richness and velvety tender texture (simply as with our whipping cream pound cake).
• Cake Flour– The low protein content material of cake flour makes for an tender, tender cake.
• Baking Powder & Salt
• Vanilla Extract– We used pure vanilla extract
• Cranberries (contemporary or frozen) which will likely be sliced into smaller items.

The right way to Make White Chocolate Cranberry Cake

Yow will discover the recipe card is on the backside of this publish, here’s a fast have a look at our steps!

• Preheat oven to 325 levels F. Grease and flour tube pan or 10 or 12 cup bundt pan.
• Chop the cranberries into small items. We positioned the sliced cranberries in a strainer and rinsed them to clean away a lot of the seeds. (Cranberry seeds are tiny & tender, it’s okay to have some seeds.) Gently pat dry and put aside.

• In a microwave secure bowl, pour heavy cream over 5 oz. white chocolate (we used white chocolate Ghirardelli chips) and microwave for 30 seconds. Stir, then proceed in smaller increments till the chocolate is nearly melted. Stir till easy and utterly melted and effectively mixed. Put aside.
• In a separate bowl whisk the cake flour, salt, and baking powder for 30 seconds to mix, put aside for later.
• Cream the softened butter on medium velocity with an electrical mixer (use a paddle attachment if utilizing a stand mixer). Add the vanilla extract. Progressively add the sugar and beat till lightened in colour and fluffy 3 to five minutes.
• Add the room temperature eggs one by one, ready a number of seconds after every addition till yolk has blended.

• With the mixer on low velocity, add the flour combination alternately with the white chocolate/cream combination to the butter, sugar, egg combination. Start and finish with the dry elements. I add the dry elements 3 instances and moist elements twice. Combine simply till blended.
• Gently stir within the sliced cranberries.

• Scoop the batter into the ready bundt pan or tube pan and use the again of a spoon to easy.

• Bake at 325 levels for 70-80 minutes or till a toothpick or lengthy skewer comes out clear or with only a few crumbs connected. Baking instances could differ relying on pan, and so on. and so it’s best to peek in at across the one hour mark and alter time accordingly. 

Adorning the Cake

We topped our cake with a glaze of melted white chocolate. We positioned white chocolate chips right into a microwave secure bowl, and heated in small increments till nearly melted. Then, we stirred till easy.

The melted white chocolate can both be spooned over the cake, or utilized utilizing a disposable piping bag with the tip snipped away.

Extra White Chocolate Truffles

We now have extra white chocolate desserts so that you can attempt! Do not miss our white chocolate velvet cake, white chocolate raspberry cake, and extra!

Additionally, for those who love cranberry desserts, we’ve got a terrific cranberry orange cake and white chocolate cranberry layer cake as effectively!

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