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Cranberry Pomegranate Pound Cake With Orange Cream Cheese Glaze – holiday flavors, festive. fluffy and delicious.
Pomegranate cake
The combination of fluffy pound cake, tart cranberries, orange and pomegranate makes this cranberry pomegranate pound cake perfect for the holidays. And because it looked a little plain, I added a citrusy orange cream cheese frosting.
How was your weekend? Mine fast awesome, I had some great time Downtown Chicago on Friday and Saturday, but yesterday we got into a car accident. Our car got hit, nobody was hurt, but the car needs to be fixed. So today’s post will be short, because I’ve got too many things going on. I guess when it rains it pours! Can anyone else relate to that?
Now on this gorgeous cranberry pomegranate pound cake! I made it two days ago and now it is gone. It was so good! I love bundt cakes, because they are so easy to make and always look great.
This cake will be the perfect addition to your holiday menu, any party or potluck.
I adapted the recipe from my Lemon Blueberry Bundt Cake Recipe, which I often make for Thanksgiving and Christmas.
I hope you like it!
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Cranberry Pomegranate Pound Cake With Orange Cream Cheese Glaze
Ingredients
For the cake:
- ¾ cup butter
- 2 cups granulated sugar – can reduce it to 1 3/4 cups
- 3 large eggs
- zest from 1 orange
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- ¾ cup buttermilk
- ½ tsp salt
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 2½ cups all-purpose flour
- 2 cups fresh or frozen cranberries, (do not thaw, if using frozen)
- 1 cup pomegranate seeds
For the glaze:
- 4 oz cream softened
- 1/4 cup powdered sugar
- juice from 1 orange
- zest from 1/2 orange
Other:
- pomegranate seeds for garnishing
Instructions
For the cake:
- Preheat oven to 350 F (177 C). Grease and flour bundt cake pan and set aside.
- In the bowl of a stand mixer cream together butter and sugar for 3-4 minutes.
- Add eggs, one at a time and beat at least one minute per egg.
- In a bowl combine salt, flour and baking powder.
- Add dry ingredients, alternatively with the buttermilk to the butter/sugar/egg mixture.
- Add orange zest. Carefully fold in cranberries and pomegranate seeds.
- Transfer to bundt cake pan and bake for 60 minutes or until toothpick inserted comes out clean. Let it cool inside the pan for 10 minutes then transfer to a cooling rack to cool completely.
For the glaze:
- In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with paddle attachment, mix together cream cheese and sugar combined. Add orange zest and slowly add orange juice. Beat until incorporated.
- Thin the glaze with water if needed.
- Pour on top of the cake. Top with pomegranate seeds.
- Store in the fridge in air-tight container for a week.
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
More Cakes
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I am so sorry about the accident 🙁 And I live in Chi town!!! Would have loved to give you some great restaurants to hit 🙂 This cake looks so perfect!!! Like it would shine at a holiday party!!! Gorgeous Mira…hope everything works out for you honey!
Thanks so much Mila! Everything is ok now 🙂
Oh no, I’m sorry to hear about your car and SO glad you are okay. And I love this festive and delicious bundt cake, it’s gorgeous!
Thanks so much Kelly!
This sounds delicious and especially the cream cheese glaze. Thanks for linking up and sharing with us at #anythingoes
Thanks Sue!
There’s something about pomegranates that get me every time — they’re so pretty! This pound cake is completely holiday-worthy and I would love to try it! Pinned.
Goodness – so glad no-one was hurt! This cake screams holiday, my dear…I can actually hear carols as I write! 😉 So beautiful, Mira!! Pinned!
Oh no!!! Mira! What a painnnn! But I’m so glad no one was hurt…. Most important! This cake is not only gorgeous, but packed with delicousness! I’m loving that orange zest and juice in the glaze too. I know it packs a punch! Delicious work, Mira!
Wow this cake is absolutely beautiful Mira! I love the pop of color from the pomegranate seeds! I need to make this over the Holidays!
Hey Mira, this cake looks fantastic! Certainly colourful and festive, perfect for the Christmas table!
Hi, the recipe shows campaignIcon as the second ingredient. Is this a typo or can it be ignored. I don’t want to leave out a key element. Thanks!
Hi Valerie, this was a typo, sorry about it. You can now proceed with the recipe.
When do you add the vanilla? I was following the directions and it wasn’t until the cake was in the oven that I realized I never added the vanilla. 🙁
Sorry, it is not in there, you add it to the eggs and sugar.