Cranberry Upside Down Cake

This is probably TMI, but for years I’ve harbored a fantasy of creating a holiday card of me lying in bathtub covered with cranberries. Sort of like that Annie Lebovitz portrait of Whoopi Goldberg in a tub of milk, but holiday themed, with cranberries.

It’s a fun idea visually, in my mind, which is where it will likely stay. (How many cranberries does it take to fill a bathtub?)

You too can fantasize about swimming in a sea of cranberries, especially if they are baked into an upside down cake like this one. Cranberry jewels surrounded by a caramelized sauce cover the surface and bleed their tart sweet flavor into a dense, orange-zest speckled cake.

INGREDIENTS
Topping

• 3/4 cup firmly packed brown sugar
• 4 Tbsp (1/4 cup or 1/2 stick) unsalted butter
• 12 ounces fresh or frozen cranberries

Cake

• 1 3/4 cups all purpose flour
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
• 1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• Scant pinch ground cloves
• 1/2 cup (1 stick) butter, room temp (plus more for buttering the pan)
• 1 1/2 cups white granulated sugar
• 3 large eggs
• 1 Tbsp orange zest
• 1/2 cup sour cream (or greek yogurt)
• 1/4 cup of milk
• Equipment
• A 9-inch cake pan with at least 2-inch high sides

METHOD

1. Butter a 9-inch cake pan: Generously butter the bottom and sides of a 9-inch diameter cake pan.
2. .................................................

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