Rustic Cornmeal Cake with Macerated Berries

Rustic Cornmeal Cake with Macerated Berries

Cornmeal and fresh berries give this summery dessert a rustic, country-style flavor.

Macerating is when you take use a liquid to break up a food ingredient and release its full flavor.

40 min Prep: 10 min Cook: 30 min
Serves: 8 Save

Ingredients (15)

Cake

  • 1 cup All Purpose Flour
  • 1½ tsp Baking Powder
  • ¼ tsp Salt
  • 1 Butter Stick
  • 1 cup Sugar
  • 2 tsp Freshly Grated Orange Zest
  • 1 tsp Vanilla Extract
  • 2 Eggs
  • ⅓ cup Stone Ground Yellow Cornmeal
  • ½ cup 2% Milk

Berries

  • 1 cup Fresh Strawberries
  • 1 cup Fresh Blackberries
  • 1 cup Fresh Raspberries
  • ¼ cup Sugar
  • ½ cup Fresh Orange Juice

Directions

  1. To prepare cake, preheat oven to 350F. Grease a 9-inch round cake pan.
  2. Combine flour, baking powder and salt.
  3. 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.
  4. Bake 30 minutes or until a tester inserted in the middle comes out clean. Cool in pan on wire rack.
  5. To prepare berries, mash berries in a large bowl. Add sugar and orange juice and mix gently. Serve with cake.