Cornmeal Cake with Macerated Berries
- Yield: 8 servings
- Prep: 10 mins
- Cook: 30 mins
Macerating is when you take use a liquid to break up a food ingredient and release its full flavor.
Ingredients
- Cake:
- 1cup all-purpose flour
- 1 1/2teaspoons baking powder
- 1/4teaspoon salt
- 1/2cup (1 stick) butter, at room temperature
- 1cup sugar
- 2teaspoons grated orange rind
- 1teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2-- eggs
- 1/3cup yellow cornmeal
- 1/2cup 2% reduced-fat milk
- Berries:
- 1cup each strawberries, blueberries and raspberries
- 1/4cup sugar, or to taste
- 1/2cup freshly squeezed orange juice
Instructions
- To prepare cake, preheat oven to 350F. Grease a 9-inch round cake pan.
- Combine flour, baking powder and salt.
- Combine butter, sugar, orange rind and vanilla in a large bowl; beat with a mixer at medium speed until evenly blended. Add eggs one at a time, beating after each addition. Reduce speed to low and add flour mixture and cornmeal alternately with milk, beating just until evenly incorporated. Scrape into prepared pan, spreading evenly.
- Bake 30 minutes or until a tester inserted in the middle comes out clean. Cool in pan on wire rack.
- To prepare berries, mash berries in a large bowl. Add sugar and orange juice and mix gently. Serve with cake.
Recipe by Jean Kressy.
Nutritional Info *per serving
- Calories 360
- Glycemic Load 22
- Fat 13g
- Saturated Fat 8g
- Polyunsaturated Fat 1g
- Monounsaturated Fat 3.5g
- Cholesterol 80mg
- Sodium 290mg
- Potassium 140mg
- Carbohydrate 57g
- Fiber 2g
- Sugars 37g
- Protein 5g
- Trans Fat 0g
- Vitamin A 10%
- Vitamin C 25%
- Calcium 8%
- Iron 8%