Christmas Cranberry Pound Cake
Description
Looking for perfect, delicious and easy Christmas dessert recipe? Then you should try this decadent pound cake with cranberries, white chocolate and cream cheese frosting! Your family would love to have this cake for Christmas, for sure!
Ingredients
For the Cake:
- 187 grams cake flour-sifted (it’s about 1 1/2 cups plus 3 Tablespoons cake flour before sifting but you better measure it on kitchen scale because the cake could be dense or dry if you overdo it with the flour )
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- Pinch of salt
- 1 cup cranberries (fresh or thawed)
- 140 grams (5 oz.) white chocolate chunk
- 115 grams (1/2 cup) unsalted butter-softened at room temperature
- 300 grams sugar ( 1 and 1/2 cups)
- 1/2 cup heavy cream
- 1/2 cup mascarpone cheese
- 3 eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 Tablespoons browned butter
Frosting:
- 56 grams (1/4 cup) unsalted butter-softened
- 112 grams (4 oz.) cream cheese-softened
- 1 and 1/2 cups powdered sugar (or more to make it thick enough to spread on top of the cake)
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Garnish:
- handful dried cranberries
- 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
- 1/2 cup white chocolate chips