Cranberry Cake with Lemon Butter Sauce

By jadedrosie

Old recipe that my mom used to make during the Holidays. I loved it, my siblings did not!

Ingredients

• lemon butter sauce:
• 1 c sugar
• 3 Tbs butter, room temperature
• 1 c milk
• 2 c cake flour
• 2 tsp baking powder
• pinch salt
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 2 c cranberries, cut in half (fresh is best or frozen)
• 1/2 c butter
• 1 c brown sugar
• 1 pt boiling water
• 2 Tbs flour
• juice of one lemon
• 1 tsp pure vanilla extract

Preparation

Step 1

Beat sugar and butter until creamy. Add vanilla.
2
Sift flour, baking powder and salt together.
3
Alternating add milk and flour to sugar/butter mixture until combined.
4
Mix cranberries in.
5
Pour into a greased and floured square 8 or 9 inch pan. Bake in a 375 degree oven for 30 minutes.
6
While cake is baking you can prepare the sauce.

In a sauce pan combine the butter, brown sugar, flour and boiling water. Bring to a boil. Boil 1 minute or until thickened. The sauce should be thicken like a gravy, not too thick. Remove from heat. Add lemon juice and vanilla.
7
Cool the cake. Cake can be served warm from the oven or cool. Serve cake with hot sauce.
8
Mom always made the cake and sauce ahead of time. She stored the sauce in a glass jar in the refrigerator and reheated it when she served the cake.