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This is the perfect dessert to use up that leftover holiday cranberry sauce!
Author: Jackie
Ingredients
  • Cake:
  • 1 cup Plugrá unsalted butter , softened
  • 1 ½ cups sugar
  • 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
  • 1 tablespoon freshly grated orange zest
  • 2 whole eggs
  • 3 egg yolks
  • 2 cups cake flour
  • ½ teaspoon baking powder
  • ½ teaspoon baking soda
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 1 cup buttermilk (or 1 cup milk with a splash of white vinegar)
  • Frosting:
  • 1 ½ cups Plugrá unsalted butter , at room temperature
  • 1 teaspoon freshly grated orange zest
  • 4 ½ cups powdered sugar
  • 3 - 4 Tablespoons heavy cream
  • 1 ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1 and ½ cup cranberry sauce
Instructions
  1. reheat oven to 350 degrees. Make sure all your ingredients are room temperature.
  2. In a separate bowl, combine flour, salt, baking powder and soda, and mix.
  3. In your mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, blend butter, sugar, orange zest, and vanilla at medium speed until pale and fluffy.
  4. Add eggs, one at a time, scraping the bowl after each addition.
  5. Reduce speed to low and add a cup of flour followed by ⅓ of the buttermilk. Repeat this 3 times, until you have incorporated all the flour and buttermilk.
  6. Grease two 8in cake pans or 3 6in pans.
  7. Bake at 350 degrees for 20 minutes or until a knife comes out clean. Cool for 10 minutes then remove from pan and allow to completely cool on a cooling rack.
  8. To make the frosting, beat the butter and orange zest on medium high until pale.
  9. Mix in powdered sugar, cream, and vanilla on low until incorporated.
  10. Increase mixer speed to medium high and beat for 5 minutes.
  11. To assemble the cake, spread ¼ cup of frosting on the first layer of cake.
  12. Top the frosting with ½ cup of cranberry sauce, then top with next cake layer. Repeat with all of the layers.
  13. Frost the outer part of the cake and top with fresh or sugared cranberries and freshly grated orange zest.