Upside-Down Cranberry Puffs With Butter Sauce

Submitted by MacChef

"This was a recipe that won the grand prize in the Pioneer Baking Mix brand Holiday recipe contest in 2006. It sounds great so I will be trying it this Christmas."

 

• Ready In: 35mins
• Ingredients: 12
• Serves: 8

ingredients

• 3⁄4 cup roughly chopped fresh cranberries
• 1⁄2 cup sugar
• 1 cup baking mix (biscuit and baking mix)
• 1⁄4 cup sugar
• 1 egg
• 1⁄3 cup milk
• 1 small orange, zest of

• Butter Sauce

• 1⁄2 cup sugar
• 1⁄4 cup heavy cream
• 1⁄4 cup butter
• 1⁄2 teaspoon vanilla
• 1⁄2 small orange, juice of

directions

1. For puffs:

2. Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Lightly toss cranberries with 1/2 cup sugar.
3. Divide berries into 8 buttered muffin cups using about 1 tablespoon per cup.
4. Mix remaining ingredients for the puffs and beat for 30 seconds. Fill muffin cups 2/3 full with batter.
5. Bake about 15 minutes or until golden brown. Invert onto a cooling rack.
6. Serve warm with hot butter sauce drizzled over.

7. For butter sauce:

8. In medium sauce pan, heat sugar and cream, stirring constantly until just boiling.
9. Remove from heat and beat in butter, orange juice and vanilla.
10. Spoon over puffs.

Reviews

[Sydney Mike]

These are certainly on a par with some of the other cranberry treats I've been making recently & will be a great addition to one of the up-coming holiday tables here! We always like the combo of cranberry & orange, & with the butter sauce, these were really special, we thought! [Tagged, made & reviewed as part of my Down-Side Up! theme in the current My 3 Chefs event]