Cranberry Cake

A very economical and tasty cake. Full of cranberry flavor! The suprise ingredient of mayonnaise makes this a nice moist cake.

• Ready In: 1 hr 15 mins
• Yields: 1 cake

Ingredients

• 3  cups flour
• 1  cup sugar
• 2  teaspoons baking soda
• 1  teaspoon salt
• 1 (16 ounce) can whole berry cranberry sauce
• 1  cup  chopped walnuts
• 1  cup mayonnaise
• 1⁄2 cup  orange juice
• 1  orange, zest of, grated

• Frosting

• 3  tablespoons butter
• 2  cups powdered sugar
• 1⁄4 cup cranberry sauce

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
2. Grease a 9" tube pan.
3. Line bottom with parchment paper.
4. Sift together flour, sugar, baking soda and salt into a large bowl.
5. Reserve 1/4 cup cranberry sauce fort the frosting.
6. Add remaining cranberry sauce, nuts, mayonnaise and orange rind to the flour mixture.
7. Mix well.
8. Stir in orange juice.
9. Pour into tube pan and bake 1 hour and 15 minutes.
10. Remove from pan and cool and frost.
11. To make frosting, soften the butter.
12. Add sugar and cranberry sauce.
13. Beat until creamy and frost the cooled cake.