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Fancy Cranberry Sauce

By Andy Baraghani and Brad Leone

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Homemade jelly cranberry sauce in the shape of a bundt cake.
Photo by Alex Lau, Prop Styling by Kalen Kaminski, Food Styling by Susie Theodorou

We dreamed of a sauce as sliceable and jiggly and fun as the retro canned stuff, but with deeper fruit flavor and more nuance. It’s subtly spiced with bay leaves and cardamom, then set in a gelatin mold that your cousins will never see coming and crowned with sugary orange zest and cranberries.  

  

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