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Cake butter light brown sugar eggs vanilla ginger salt flour cranberries white chocolate Frosting cream cheese powdered sugar lemon juice vanilla cranberries powdered sugar milk vegetable shortening
Viewed: 0 - Published at: 7 months agoIngredients
- Cake
- 1 cup (2 sticks) butter, softened
- 1 1/4 cups light brown sugar, packed
- 3 eggs
- 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla
- 1 teaspoon ginger
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 3/4 cup diced dried cranberries
- 6 ounces white chocolate, cut into chunks
- Frosting
- 4-ounces cream cheese, softened
- 3 cups powdered sugar
- 4 teaspoons lemon juice
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/4 cup diced dried cranberries
- Drizzled Icing
- 1/2 cup powdered sugar
- 1 tablespoon milk
- 2 teaspoons vegetable shortening
Method
- 1. Preheat oven to 350°F.
- 2. Make cake by beating butter and brown sugar
- together with an electric mixer until smooth. Add
- eggs, vanilla, ginger, and salt and beat well.
- Gradually mix in flour until smooth. Mix 3/4 cup
- diced dried cranberries and white chocolate into
- the batter by hand. Pour batter into a
- well-greased 9x13" baking pan. Use a spatula to
- spread the batter evenly across the pan. Bake for
- 35 to 40 minutes or until cake is light brown on
- the edges. Allow cake to cool.
- 3. Make frosting by combining softened cream
- cheese, 3 cups powdered sugar, lemon juice and
- vanilla extract in a medium bowl with an electric
- mixer until smooth. When the cake has cooled, use
- a spatula to spread frosting over the top of the
- cake.
- 4. Sprinkle 1/4 cup of diced cranberries over the
- frosting on the cake.
- 5. Whisk together 1/2 cup powdered sugar, 1
- tablespoon milk, and shortening. Drizzle icing
- over the cranberries in a sweeping motion or use
- a pastry bag with a fine tip to drizzle frosting
- across the top of the cake.
- 6. Allow cake to sit for several hours, then
- slice the cake lengthwise (the long way) through
- the middle. Slice the cake across the width three
- times making a total of eight rectangular slices.
- Slice each of those rectangles diagonally
- creating 16 triangular slices.
- From: http://www.topsecretrecipes.com
