cranberry bundt cake

How To Make cranberry bundt cake

• Step 1
  Heat oven to 350^. Combine dry cake mix, dry pudding mix, butter,vegetable oil,water, orange zest, and eggs in a large mixer bowl; beat mixture at medium speed for 2 minutes;until smooth and satiny. Reserve 1 cup of batter; spreading remainder evenly in a well greased and floured 10 or 12 inch bundt pan. Set aside.
• Step 2
  In another bowl; Blend reserved 1 cup of batter, dry jello mix, and flour until well blended. Spoon mixture in a ring around the cake batter in the bundt pan. Using a spoon, fold jello mixture gently into batter(go around twice, being careful not to scrape sides of the bundt pan). Bake for about 50-55 minutes, or until tests done with toothpick and cake has come away from sides of pan. Cool in pan for 15 minutes, invert onto serving plate gently.
• Step 3
  Topping: Combine water and sugar in a medium saucepan with a heavy bottom; stir over medium heat just until sugar is dissolved. Bring to boiling and cook until mixture reaches 220^ on candy thermometer. Remove from heat. Stir in cranberries. Cool mixture at room temperature until it reaches 115^(cranberries should NOT pop open, about 15 minutes. Remove berries from syrup with a slotted spoon and place over top of cake, mounding slightly, let some syrup drip down side of the cake for spectacular effect..
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