Cranberry cake, a sweet spongy fruity cake with ample whole cranberries or minced cranberry makes a dessert worthwhile. Cranberry sauce or extract is added to the basic ingredients of consisting of flour, sugar, butter or margarine, salt and baking powder. Whole cranberries or minced cranberry are added to the batter and baked. The hot baked cake is cooled for a while and sliced off into thick slices. Served with cranberry sauce or any other compatible sweet sauce, the cranberry cake is sure to make one an incorrigible addict of the recipe.