This Cranberry Orange Coffee Cake Recipe for Christmas is really tasty and perfect for breakfast or Christmas brunch! The berries are still a little tart, but they mix with the sweetness of the cake and it's good.

The cake is light, not overly sweet, so it's good and a very nice, simple but tasty breakfast bake.

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Cranberry Orange Coffee Cake Recipe for Christmas

According to University of Maine Cooperative Extension, American Indians used cranberries as a food source, to dye fabric and as medicine. The cranberry is one of only three commercially-produced fruits that are native to North America (the other two are blueberries and Concord grapes). Cranberries can actually be found from the Polar Regions to the tropics, in both hemispheres. Due to the importance of cranberries in the 1500s and their abundance, it is believed that the pilgrims and the American Indians would have eaten them at the first Thanksgiving!

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Fun Fact About Cranberries!

Contrary to popular belief, cranberries do not actually grow in water. Cranberries grow on a low-growing, perennial vine. Cranberry vines can grow up to six feet in length and can live over 100 years.

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How to Make this Cranberry Orange Coffee Cake Recipe for Christmas

Cranberry Orange Coffee Cake Recipe for Christmas Ingredients:

½ cup butter, softened
zest of one orange
1 cup white sugar
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 cups all purpose flour, plus 2 tablespoons
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
½ cup buttermilk
2 cups fresh cranberries
2 tablespoons coarse sugar

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Cranberry Orange Coffee Cake Recipe for Christmas Directions:

Preheat oven to 350 and grease a 9x9 square baking pan with nonstick cooking spray and set it aside.

Add butter, orange zest and sugar in a mixing bowl and beat well until fluffy.

Add egg and vanilla and beat well.

Mix together flour, baking powder and salt in a small bowl.

Add flour mixture and milk to batter and beat just until combined.

In a small bowl, combine cranberries and 2 tablespoons flour.

Fold cranberries into batter.

Spoon batter into prepared pan.

Batter is very thick and almost seems dry, but is not! The moisture from the cranberries will make it perfect!

Top with coarse sugar.

Bake this Cranberry Orange Coffee Cake Recipe for Christmas for 30-35 minutes or until center is done when a toothpick is inserted in the center. Cool and serve warm.

This Cranberry Orange Coffee Cake Recipe for Christmas Serves 9 people.

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Cranberry Orange Coffee Cake Recipe

Author Jennifer

Ingredients

½ cup butter softened
zest of one orange
1 cup white sugar
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 cups all purpose flour plus 2 tablespoons
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
½ cup buttermilk
2 cups fresh cranberries
2 tablespoons coarse sugar

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350 and grease a 9x9 square baking pan with nonstick cooking spray. Set aside.
Add butter, orange zest and sugar in a mixing bowl and beat well until fluffy. Add egg and vanilla and beat well.
Mix together flour, baking powder and salt in a small bowl. Add flour mixture and milk to batter and beat just until combined.
In a small bowl, combine cranberries and 2 tablespoons flour. Fold cranberries into batter.
Spoon batter into prepared pan. Batter is very thick and almost seems dry, but is not! The moisture from the cranberries will make it perfect! Top with coarse sugar.
Bake for 30-35 minutes or until center is done when a toothpick is inserted in the center. Cool and serve warm.
Serves 9