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Prep time
15 minutes
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Cook time
40 minutes
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Serves
6-8
Author Notes
This is a lovely cake for anytime, but especially Thanksgiving or Christmas. It has a soft, yet sturdy crumb that tastes like sweet cream dotted with tart bits of dried cranberries, yet it is not cloyingly sweet. The cake gets balanced with decadent buttercream that has been scented with the seeds of two split vanilla beans and piled on top like a cloud. Such a good cake! —HeidiMoyer
Ingredients
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1 3/4 cups
all purpose flour
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1/2 teaspoon
baking powder
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1/2 teaspoon
baking soda
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3/4 cup
Greek yogurt- plain
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3/4 cup
sugar
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2
eggs
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2 teaspoons
vanilla extract
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1/2 cup
neutral oil
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1/2 cup
dried cranberries- chopped + 1 tbsp.
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1 tablespoon
rum
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3 cups
powdered
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1/2 cup
butter- softened
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2 tablespoons
milk
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2
vanilla bean pods
Directions
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1. Preheat oven to 350* and grease and line a 9-inch round cake pan.
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Put 1/2 cup chopped dried cranberries into a small bowl, stir in 1 tbsp. rum. Set aside.
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Whisk the flour, baking powder, and baking soda in a bowl. In a separate bowl, whisk the yogurt, sugar, eggs, vanilla, and oil together.
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Add the wet ingredients to the dry, and mix until smooth. Fold in the cranberries. Pour into the pan and bake for 35-40 minutes, or until a tester comes out clean. Cool completely
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Make frosting: Beat the butter until smooth, add the powdered sugar a little at a time along with the milk and vanilla extract. Combine until frosting is well whipped. Split the vanilla beans and scrape out the seeds with the tip of a knife. Add all the seeds you can to the frosting, mix to distribute well.
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Frost the cooled cake by piling all of the frosting on top. Decorate the top with a few chopped cranberries.
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