In a delightful fusion of flavors, the Orange Cranberry Date Pumpkin Cake captivates taste buds with its moist and tender crumb, bursting with a symphony of citrusy oranges, tart cranberries, chewy dates, and the comforting warmth of pumpkin. This culinary masterpiece offers a delightful balance of sweetness and tanginess, making it an ideal treat for any occasion. Alongside this star attraction, the article unveils a treasure trove of equally enticing recipes, promising a tantalizing culinary journey. Discover the secrets behind the luscious Orange Cranberry Cream Cheese Frosting, the delectable Cranberry Date Chutney, and the irresistible Brown Butter Cranberry Sauce. Each recipe is crafted with precision and passion, ensuring a delightful culinary experience that will leave you craving for more.
Here are our top 11 tried and tested recipes!
CRANBERRY-PUMPKIN SPICE CAKE
Even though this is a light dessert, my kids love it. Since it's so popular, I stock up on canned pumpkin in the fall when it's on sale so I can make it all year long. -Cami LaForge, Murray, Utah
Provided by Taste of Home
Categories Desserts
Time 40m
Yield 9 servings.
Number Of Ingredients 16
Steps:
- Preheat oven to 350°. Coat a 9-in. square baking pan with cooking spray., In a large bowl, beat egg and egg white until foamy. Add pumpkin, melted butter, oil and vanilla; beat until well blended. In another bowl, whisk flour, brown sugar, baking powder, cinnamon, baking soda and salt; stir into egg mixture. Stir in cranberries, walnuts and orange zest. Transfer to prepared pan. , Bake 20-25 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool completely in pan on a wire rack. Sprinkle with confectioners' sugar before serving.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 208 calories, Fat 7g fat (2g saturated fat), Cholesterol 30mg cholesterol, Sodium 192mg sodium, Carbohydrate 34g carbohydrate (22g sugars, Fiber 1g fiber), Protein 4g protein. Diabetic Exchanges
ORANGE-CRANBERRY-DATE PUMPKIN CAKE
Try this soft fruity pumpkin cake. When I saw the contest ingredients that could be used in baked goods, orange and pumpkin immediately came to mind to tie them all together. What I came up with is extra special for you to bake and give to family and friends during the Holidays. You can easily make this in 12 muffin tins or double it in a bundt pan. For gift giving, mini loaf pans are nice. I'm giving you a choice of 3 delicious toppings: dust with confectioner's sugar, frost it with neufchatel frosting or ice it with white chocolate icing. Or you can make multiple loafs and try all 3! This gets even better after it sits for a couple of days, the spice and orange flavors come out more.
Provided by Engrossed
Categories Dessert
Time 1h20m
Yield 1 loaf, 8 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 35
Steps:
- Preheat oven to 350°F Grease a loaf pan.
- In a large bowl, beat together pumpkin, eggs, oil, vanilla, sugars, orange zest and grated ginger. Be sure to scrape the sides and bottom of the bowl.
- In a small bowl, whisk dry ingredients together. Beat into wet mixture until well combined. Be sure to scrape the sides and bottom of the bowl.
- Stir in cranberries, dates, and pecans, if desired.
- Pour into greased loaf pan and bake for 60-70 minutes, until tests clean.
- Let cool in pan for 10 minutes and then loosen edges with a butter knife and turn out onto a cooling rack.
- To serve: Dust cooled cake with powdered sugar or frost with frosting or drizzle with icing.
- Optional Frosting: Cream neufchatel and butter together. Beat in vanilla, orange zest and nutmeg. Beat in confectioner's sugar until right consistency is reached. Add orange juice if it becomes too thick. Frost cake with frosting and sprinkle pecans over the frosting, if desired. You can also cut the loaf in half and frost in between layers.
- Optional Icing: In a 1-2 cup pyrex, melt butter and white chocolate chips in the microwave for 60 seconds. Stir until smooth with a fork. Stir in nutmeg and orange zest. Stir in milk and confectioner's sugar until smooth. Drizzle over cake.
- Wrap cooled loaf with plastic wrap or foil and store at room temperature or refrigerate. Refrigerate if frosted or iced.
- To freeze: Wrap cooled loaf tightly with plastic wrap or foil and place in a Ziploc bag and freeze it for gift giving at a later date. If you frost or ice it, you can put it on a cookie sheet and freeze it until firm, then wrap it and place in a Ziploc bag.
PUMPKIN-CRANBERRY-ORANGE GINGERBREAD LOAF
Packed with all the flavors of Thanksgiving and Christmas, this will be a great addition to your holiday fare. Pumpkin, pecans, orange, cranberry, and of course ginger, all blend together for a tasty treat for the holidays, but so yummy you'll want it anytime of the year. Also great as muffins.
Provided by Naomi Boyko
Categories Bread Quick Bread Recipes Pumpkin Bread Recipes
Time 1h45m
Yield 12
Number Of Ingredients 15
Steps:
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a 9x5-inch loaf pan and lightly dust the bottom with flour.
- Zest the entire orange, avoiding the white (pith). Peel and section the orange and remove all seeds. Chop orange pulp in the bowl of a food processor or blender until fine. Reserve with the zest.
- Cream sugar and butter together in a large bowl with an electric mixer until very well combined. Beat in eggs, one at a time, until thoroughly incorporated. Stir in pumpkin, reserved chopped orange and zest, orange juice, and grated ginger.
- Whisk flour, ginger, baking soda, cinnamon, baking powder, and salt together in a separate bowl. Stir into the wet batter until almost all is moistened, but do not overwork. Fold in dried cranberries and pecans. Turn into the prepared loaf pan.
- Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, about 1 hour. Let cool in the pan, on a wire rack, for 15 minutes. Remove from the pan and let cool completely on the wire rack before wrapping.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 353.5 calories, Carbohydrate 55.7 g, Cholesterol 51.3 mg, Fat 13.6 g, Fiber 3.2 g, Protein 4.5 g, SaturatedFat 5.6 g, Sodium 315.1 mg, Sugar 36.2 g
TUSCAN SUN ORANGE CRANBERRY CAKE
This recipe came to be through much trial and error. Growing up, my family used farina flour in desserts, and I thought it would lend a nice texture to this cake. It's an Old World Italian-style cake, delicious but not too sweet. The orange-cranberry combination is perfect! -Ninette Holbrook, Orlando, Florida
Provided by Taste of Home
Time 45m
Yield 8 servings.
Number Of Ingredients 16
Steps:
- Preheat oven to 350°. Grease an 8-in. round baking pan., In a large bowl, beat sugar, oil, eggs, orange zest and juice until well blended. In another bowl, whisk flour, cream of wheat, salt and baking powder; gradually beat into oil mixture. Stir in cranberries., Transfer to prepared pan; sprinkle with almonds. Bake until a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean, 20-25 minutes., Combine glaze ingredients; pour over warm cake. Cool 10 minutes before serving. If desired, sprinkle with orange zest.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 263 calories, Fat 12g fat (1g saturated fat), Cholesterol 47mg cholesterol, Sodium 182mg sodium, Carbohydrate 36g carbohydrate (25g sugars, Fiber 1g fiber), Protein 4g protein.
HOLIDAY CRANBERRY PUMPKIN CAKE
The perfect cake for Thanksgiving or Christmas. It is full of all the wonderful ingredients we use during the holidays with a beautiful glaze and bright cranberries for garnish (makes 1 bundt cake or 2 loaves)
Provided by southern chef in lo
Categories Dessert
Time 1h15m
Yield 1 bundt cake
Number Of Ingredients 14
Steps:
- Preheat the oven to 350°F Spray 1 bundt cake pan or 2 loaf pans with cooking spray.
- In bowl, combine sugar, pumpkin, oil, eggs, and vanilla; mix well.
- In large mixing bowl, combine the other ingredients except the cranberries.
- Make a well in the center of the flour mixture and pour in the pumpkin mixture. Mix well. Fold cranberries into batter and spoon into cake pan.
- Bake for 1 hour or until cake test done with toothpick inserted in center and coming out clean.
- Let cakes cook for 10 minutes before removing from pan. Cool completely before applying the glaze.
- Glaze: In small bowl, combine the sugar and milk until smooth fold in 1/3 cup of the cranberries.
- Place cake on wire rack with wax paper under rack. Spoon the glaze over the cake to completely cover the top.
- Sprinkle remaining cranberries on top of glaze.
PUMPKIN ORANGE CAKE
"This moist make-ahead spice cake with its flavorful orange frosting is popular at family gatherings," shares Shirley Glaab of Hattiesburg, Mississippi. "It's simple to prepare and it tastes so good, everyone asks for the recipe."
Provided by Taste of Home
Categories Desserts
Time 55m
Yield 12 servings.
Number Of Ingredients 22
Steps:
- In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating well after each addition. In another bowl, beat pumpkin, orange juice, milk and orange zest. Combine dry ingredients; add to creamed mixture alternately with pumpkin mixture, beating well after each addition. Fold in nuts., Pour into a greased 13x9-in. baking pan. Bake at 350° for 30 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool on a wire rack., For frosting, in a large bowl, beat butter and confectioners' sugar until smooth. Beat in the milk, orange juice and zest. Frost cake. Garnish with candied peel if desired.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 445 calories, Fat 17g fat (9g saturated fat), Cholesterol 71mg cholesterol, Sodium 395mg sodium, Carbohydrate 70g carbohydrate (51g sugars, Fiber 1g fiber), Protein 5g protein.
ORANGE-CRANBERRY-DATE CAKE
-With the holidays coming, this is a cake that can be made in small bundts for gifts and can also be completed, frozen and retrieved for a family get together at another holiday function. -This recipe came from a coworker Dee Alonso at AMD in 1975 and she told me she got it from a friend of hers, Mady Valmoja. -I have made many...
Provided by Warrenette Dailey
Categories Cakes
Time 2h
Number Of Ingredients 14
Steps:
- 1. Sift first 5 dry ingredients together. I am sorry I have no pictures, but this only seems difficult the first time, but you really have to try hard to not have this taste wonderful. The ingredients are simple combinations and baking 2 at a time works well for future time-saver.
- 2. Add the next 4 items to dry ingredients. Mix together next 3 (wet) ingredients. Add wet ingredients to dry ingredients and mix well. Pour into a greased tube or bundt pan and bake for 1 hour at 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
- 3. While cake is baking, mix together 1 cup orange juice and 1 cup sugar until sugar is dissolved.
- 4. Pour OJ/sugar mixture over warm cake, wrap tightly and refrigerate (in baking pan) for 24 hours or at least over night. Easy removal can be done by lowering pan into warm watger for a few seconds and inverting onto serving platter.
- 5. This is the point where you can wrap up the cake and freeze for later retrieval. To speed up the absorption of OJ into the cake, an ice-pick can be used to poke holes into the cake and also run gently down pan creases to assure OJ totally encompasses the cake with moisture.
CRANBERRY ORANGE CAKE
A yummy fall cranberry cake with a hint of orange! Dust with powdered sugar, if desired.
Provided by Bringhomethebakin'
Categories Desserts Fruit Dessert Recipes Orange Dessert Recipes
Time 2h10m
Yield 12
Number Of Ingredients 11
Steps:
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a 10-inch fluted tube pan (such as Bundt®) with baking spray.
- Combine flour, sugar, oil, eggs, orange juice, baking powder, vanilla extract, and salt in a bowl using an electric mixer until thoroughly incorporated. Stir in cranberries and orange zest. Pour into the prepared pan.
- Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, about 1 hour.
- Remove from the oven and turn cake out onto a cooling rack; let cool for 1 hour.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 430.5 calories, Carbohydrate 60.3 g, Cholesterol 62 mg, Fat 19.9 g, Fiber 1.5 g, Protein 5.3 g, SaturatedFat 3.4 g, Sodium 242.6 mg, Sugar 36.5 g
CRANBERRY-PUMPKIN COOKIES
Soft, cake-like cookies.
Provided by Lucy Randall
Categories Fruits and Vegetables Vegetables Squash
Time 32m
Yield 36
Number Of Ingredients 13
Steps:
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Grease cookie sheets.
- In a large mixing bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in vanilla, egg and pumpkin. Sift together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt and cinnamon; stir into mixture until well blended. Cut the cranberries in half and stir into mixture along with the orange zest and walnuts. Drop by teaspoonfuls onto cookie sheets.
- Bake for 10 to 12 minutes.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 89.7 calories, Carbohydrate 12.9 g, Cholesterol 11.9 mg, Fat 3.9 g, Fiber 0.7 g, Protein 1.3 g, SaturatedFat 1.8 g, Sodium 131.1 mg, Sugar 6 g
CRANBERRY-ORANGE BUNDT® CAKE
I bought the cutest little 4.5-cup capacity Bundt® pan to bake smaller cakes for just me and my husband. This recipe fit perfectly in it, and was just the right amount for us. Cranberries and orange peel are finely chopped and beat into the batter, so you get those flavors throughout the cake. Decorating with the sugared cranberries is optional, but makes for a beautiful presentation.
Provided by Kim's Cooking Now
Categories Desserts Cakes Bundt Cake Recipes
Time 1h15m
Yield 4
Number Of Ingredients 18
Steps:
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Using a pastry brush, thoroughly brush the insides and center tube of a 4.5-cup fluted tube pan (such as Bundt®) with the melted shortening. Sift 2 tablespoons cake flour over the greased pan, making sure that all surfaces are well coated. Shake out any excess flour over the sink. Set the pan aside.
- Using a sharp paring knife or vegetable peeler, remove the orange part of the orange peel, leaving behind the white bitter pitch. Place the strips of orange zest in the bowl of a food processor. Add cranberries and process until finely chopped. Set aside.
- Cream sugar and butter together in a bowl with an electric mixer until light and fluffy. Beat in egg and almond extract. Add 1 1/4 cups cake flour, baking soda, and salt and mix until just combined. Beat in buttermilk and chopped cranberries and orange zest. Spread batter evenly into the prepared pan.
- Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean, 35 to 37 minutes. Cool for 20 minutes and invert onto a serving platter.
- While cake is cooling, combine cranberries, 3 tablespoons sugar, and water in a small glass bowl. Microwave on high for 1 minute to dissolve sugar and soften cranberries. Stir until all of the cranberries are coated with the sugary mixture. Remove the cranberries with a slotted spoon onto a waxed paper-lined baking sheet. Allow to dry for 30 minutes. Roll the cranberries in the remaining 2 tablespoons of sugar.
- Combine powdered sugar, orange juice, and orange zest in a small bowl. Drizzle glaze over the cooled cake and garnish with the sugared cranberries.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 613.9 calories, Carbohydrate 111.6 g, Cholesterol 77.6 mg, Fat 16.6 g, Fiber 2.8 g, Protein 6.7 g, SaturatedFat 8.6 g, Sodium 419.9 mg, Sugar 70.3 g
ORANGE DATE CAKE
When it's time for dessert, this rich cake with orange syrup is a special treat for our farm family.
Provided by Taste of Home
Categories Desserts
Time 1h50m
Yield 16-20 servings.
Number Of Ingredients 13
Steps:
- Sift together flour, baking soda and salt; combine 1 cup with dates and walnuts. Set both mixtures aside. , In a large bowl, cream shortening and sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Add orange zest. Add reserved flour and date mixtures. Stir in buttermilk just until blended. , Spoon into a greased and floured 10-in. tube pan. Bake at 300° for 1-1/2 to 1-3/4 hours or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. , For syrup, in a small saucepan, heat orange juice and sugar until sugar is dissolved. Let stand for 30 minutes. Cool cake in pan for 10 minutes before removing to a wire rack. Cool 10 minutes more before pouring syrup over cake.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 377 calories, Fat 15g fat (3g saturated fat), Cholesterol 43mg cholesterol, Sodium 283mg sodium, Carbohydrate 56g carbohydrate (35g sugars, Fiber 2g fiber), Protein 6g protein.
Tips:
- Mise en Place: Before you start baking, ensure all your ingredients and equipment are ready. This will help you stay organized and prevent any setbacks during the baking process.
- Use Fresh Cranberries: Fresh cranberries add a delightful tartness to this cake. If fresh cranberries are unavailable, you can substitute them with frozen or dried cranberries.
- Orange Zest and Juice: Orange zest and juice provide a vibrant citrus flavor to the cake. Use organic oranges for the best flavor and to avoid any bitterness from pesticides.
- Quality Dates: Choose high-quality, plump dates for a rich and chewy texture. Medjool dates are a popular choice, but you can use any variety you prefer.
- Baking Time: Keep an eye on the cake during baking. The exact baking time may vary depending on your oven, so start checking the cake for doneness a few minutes before the recommended time.
- Cream Cheese Frosting: The cream cheese frosting is optional, but it adds a delicious and creamy touch to the cake. If you prefer a less sweet frosting, you can reduce the amount of sugar or omit it altogether.
Conclusion:
The orange-cranberry-date-pumpkin cake is a delightful treat that combines the flavors of pumpkin, cranberries, orange, and dates into a moist and flavorful cake. With its vibrant color and festive spices, this cake is perfect for Thanksgiving, Christmas, or any special occasion. Whether you choose to frost it with cream cheese frosting or enjoy it plain, this cake is sure to be a hit with your family and friends. So gather your ingredients, preheat your oven, and let's bake a delicious and memorable cake together!
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