The best baked goods with cranberries: from simple muffins to holiday cakes

Baking with cranberries is very popular today, not only in home cookery, but also in the restaurant menu. Bright acidic fruits perfectly sound in many desserts: cakes, pies, cakes and buns. And you can use this filling throughout the year - just collect the berries in season and freeze them for the winter. In autumn, fresh cranberries you can find in the markets and supermarkets.

Baked cranberries

Cranberries contain a huge amount of vitamins, minerals, useful acids and other biologically active ingredients that give baking from it special properties. In addition, these berries include pectin, due to which the filling will always be thick and dense, and, therefore, will not leak out and burn. In addition, this property allows you to use the minimum amount of starch in the recipe.

Baking with cranberries will never be sweetly sweet, on the contrary, because of the sour taste of fruits, such dishes are very pleasant to taste - refreshing. And this characteristic sour is attractive for children, and it's pretty good, because not every kid will eat fresh berries.



A special love for baking with cranberries is fed not only by us, but also by the Americans. In their kitchen there is a huge number of recipes for dishes with this berry, and in most cases it is recommended to cut the cranberries in half - so the pulp is much better suits the pies of other dishes with its delicious taste and aroma.

Note! For this reason, today in America and Canada, mainly large-berry cranberries are grown, the berries of which are equal in size to cherries. You can find such a product in our markets, just use it!

So, let's consider the best recipes for baking with cranberries.

Cranberry desserts for the whole family

It's quite simple to make such baking, since there is no need to divide the dough into portions. It is necessary only to mix the base, fill it with a fragrant filling and send it to the oven. Let's get started!

Cake "Cranberry"

Baking with cranberries is quite capable of becoming the main decoration of any table, even a festive one. And in this version, it is sure to please all your guests. To prepare this dish you will need such products:

• 380 g of cranberries in sugar;
• 210 g of butter;
• orange( juice);
• 40 g of powdered sugar;
• 310 g glass of sugar;
• 3 eggs;
• incomplete spoonful of soda;
• a couple of glasses of flour;
• half-bottles of condensed milk.

In a large bowl, combine the condensed milk, sugar and eggs. We mix everything thoroughly. Sift flour, add soda. We mix the coronals to homogeneity, breaking all the lumps.

Half the mass is transferred to a heat resistant baking dish and sent to a preheated oven to 210 ° C for 20-25 minutes. After the specified time, we take out the cake, let it cool down a bit and cut into two layers. We bake the second cake and also divide it into two parts. Sprinkle each layer with powdered sugar.

Cream: stir cranberries in sugar with softened butter, add lemon juice. We beat the mass with a mixer and smear every cake.

Cranberry Pie

This is an incredible cake. Its basis is a very delicate friable almond dough, which when baked is covered with crispy crust, and the filling is explosive for its taste qualities cranberry.

Products that will be needed for the base:

• wheat flour - 250-260 g;
• butter - 230 g;
• almonds - ¾ cup;
• sugar - ¾ cup;
• egg;
• baking powder - incomplete teaspoon;
• salt - a quarter teaspoon;
• powder for powdering.

For filling:

• cranberries - 3,5-4 cups;
• sugar - 210 g;
• orange-juice halves;
• cornstarch - 15 g;
• cinnamon - a couple of big pinches;
• vanilla extract - a teaspoon.

The almond is filled with hot water and left for a while. We remove the skin. Then put the nuts on a dry frying pan and fry until a characteristic aroma appears. The dried almonds are ground into flour using a blender. Add to the almond flour wheat, baking powder and salt. All mixed.

In a separate container, butter is combined with sugar and whipped. We add the egg and again whisk again. The resulting mass is put into a bowl with flour mixture and quickly kneaded soft dough. Heatproof form lubricate a small amount of butter and put in it most of the dough.

Cooking stuffing: combine the juice halves of orange with sugar and cornstarch. Add vanilla extract and cranberries. All mix and evenly put in the form on the dough. Sprinkle with cinnamon.

The remaining dough is divided into strips and laid out from above, equalize and send the cake to the oven for 45-50 minutes. We take the finished baking, let it cool and cut into portions. Before serving, you can sprinkle a little cake of powdered sugar.

Cranberry casserole

This is a great opportunity to feed your child tasty, satisfying and useful. For the preparation of curd casserole with cranberries you will need such products:

• curd - 600 g;
• sour cream - 150 g;
• flour - 4-5 table spoons with a slide;
• eggs - 3 pieces;
• vanillin - at the tip of the knife;
• sugar-glass;The cranberry is a glass.

In a large bowl we sift the flour. Cottage cheese we grate through a fine sieve or we interrupt in a bowl of a combine with sugar and eggs. We shift the curd mass to flour, add sour cream, vanillin and berries. Gently mix everything.

Heatproof form grease with butter and spread in it curd-cranberry mass. We send it to a preheated oven to 180 ° C and bake for 30-40 minutes. We take the casserole, let it cool and serve.

Baked pastry

Crispy puffs and fragrant hot pies with cranberries are a real treat. And if you use not frozen, namely fresh berries, the taste of baking will be very bright and interesting.

Puffs

Slices with cranberries from puff pastry always go "with a bang."Crispy baked dough perfectly matches with the delicious sourness of fresh cranberries. To prepare this dish, you will need:

• packing puff pastry( yeast);
• a pound of cranberries;
• half a kilogram of sugar;
• tablespoon of starch;
• a little flour( for rolling the dough).

Pour the berries into a large saucepan, add sugar, mix and turn on a small fire. Warm up at the minimum gas supply until the cranberry gives juice. Then add the fire and wait until the syrup begins to boil, then again reduce the flow of gas and cook the mass with constant stirring for an hour.

Recommendation! In the course of cooking, it is desirable to try the filling and, if necessary, adjust the amount of sugar!

In a glass pour a couple of tablespoons of cold water and dissolve the starch in it, then pour the resulting mass into a sauté pan with cranberries. Cook the filling about 5 minutes, then remove it from the plate.

Defrost the dough and roll it out with a rolling pin on the table. To prevent the dough from tearing and rolling evenly, the table should be sprinkled with wheat flour. We cut the resulting layer into several rectangles. The edges of each piece is slightly moistened with water or greased with a beaten egg.

To each side of each rectangle, put a little stuffing, cover it with the second side of the dough and connect the edges with a fork. Lay the puffs on a baking sheet covered with parchment, and leave it on the table for half an hour. Then grease them with egg, sprinkle with sugar and send everything to a preheated oven to 220 ° C.Bake until cooked.

Cupcakes with cranberries

For preparation of cakes with cranberries it is necessary: ​​

• 220 g of flour;
• a couple tablespoons of wheat bread;
• orange;
• a pinch of salt;
• 130 g of powdered sugar;
• a glass of cranberry;
• 15 g of the disintegrant;
• 80 g + a couple tablespoons( to lubricate molds) butter;
• egg;
• 160 ml of milk.

Lubricate the cupcake molds with butter and sprinkle with breadcrumbs. We put them on a baking sheet.

In a large bowl, sift flour, add baking powder and salt. From the orange we remove the zest and we also spread it into a bowl.

In a small saucepan we dissolve the butter, add the egg, pour in the milk and whisk everything a little whisk. Pour the mixture into the flour and mix it quickly.

Important! Dough for such cupcakes can not be mixed for too long, otherwise it will leave air bubbles and the baking will not turn friable!

We sort out the berries, thoroughly wash them and dry them. Put them into the dough and gently mix with a wooden spatula.

The oven is reheated to 220 ° C.We spread the dough into molds and send it to bake for about 20-25 minutes. Let's cool down a little and serve it.

Pies

Pies with cranberries we will cook in the oven. For them you will need such products:

• 290 ml of milk;
• 4 eggs;
• 140-145 ml of corn oil;
• 50 g of starch;
• 270 g of sugar;
• 740 g of flour;
• 15 g dry yeast;
• 3-4 g of salt;
• 350 g of cranberry;
• 40 g of butter.

Pour 200 ml of milk into a sauté pan and heat a little over a small fire. We add a couple of tablespoons of flour, 25 g of sugar and yeast. Stir, cover with a film and leave in the heat for a quarter of an hour. During this time, a "cap" should appear.

We drive into the bowl 3 eggs, add 50 grams of sugar, salt and corn oil. We knead it. The remaining portion of milk is heated and poured into the spoon. Stir and combine with egg mass.

Begin to pour the flour - first half a kilo, mix with a spoon, then in small portions, constantly mixing everything with your hands. We knead the dough on the table until it begins to lag behind the hands. Lubricate the resulting ball with vegetable oil, put it in a bowl, sprinkle with flour, cover with a film and leave for a while in the heat. After the dough is good enough, we again lash it with our hands and again leave it in the warmth. The mass should be doubled.

Cooking stuffing: combine the berries with sugar and mix thoroughly.

Note! In this version, we do not need to maintain the integrity of the fruit, so the mass can even be crushed somewhat to get enough juice!

Add the starch and mix the stuffing once more.

From the approached dough we tear off small pieces, roll the balls and make cakes from them in the palm of your hand. We fill pies with stuffing and patch the edges. Fold it on a baking tray and leave in a warm oven for about half an hour. We get the patties and grease them with the egg. The oven is heated to 180 ° C and baked pies for 20 minutes.