Orange cake with dried cranberries

Orange Cake - A recipe made with orange juice and orange zest and cranberries.

Ingredients

• Butter, unsalted (softened) - 1 1/2 cups
• White sugar - 1 1/2 cups
• Eggs - 4 pcs.
• Sour cream - 1 cup
• Orange juice - 1 glass
• Orange peel - 2 tbsp. l.
• Vanilla sugar - 1 tsp
• Flour - 4 cups
• Baking powder - 1 tbsp. l.
• Salt - 1/2 tsp
• Dried cranberries - 1 1/2 cups
• Powdered sugar - 2 cups
• Orange liqueur - 7-8 tbsp. l.

Directions

1. Turn on the oven to preheat to 180 degrees. Heat-resistant form, about 15x25 cm in size, grease with oil. (You can also use muffin tins.)
2. With a mixer on medium speed, beat the butter, sugar and vanilla sugar until fluffy, about 3 minutes. Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each. Then add orange juice, sour cream and zest, mix well on low speed.
3. In another bowl, combine flour, baking powder and salt, mix. Pour this mixture into a liquid mass, pour cranberries there and mix everything until smooth.
4. Pour batter into prepared ovenproof dish, place in preheated oven and bake until a clean stick, about 70-75 minutes.
5. Meanwhile, in a small bowl, mix the icing sugar and orange liqueur.
6. Leave the finished cake to cool directly in the mold at room temperature for 10 minutes. Then take the cake out of the mold and put it on the wire rack. With a long skewer or needle, make deep cuts in the cupcake. Drizzle icing over orange cake. Allow the cake to cool completely, then cut into slices and serve the orange cake immediately.