I want to make cranberry sauce and rum cake from scratch. any easy but good recipes?

please don't cut and paste recipes. i am only interested in real people recipes and ideas.I want to make cranberry sauce and rum cake from scratch. any easy but good recipes?
This is my recipe for Trinidadian rum cake - alson known as black cake or Christmas cake... It's really strong and is an acquired taste .. I think it's worth the effort.





Ingredients


1 pound currants


1 pound raisins


1 pound prunes


1 pound dried figs


1 (16 ounce) jar maraschino cherries, drained


1/2 pound mixed peel


1/4 pound almonds, chopped


1 tablespoon angostura bitters


2 1/2 cups dark Jamaica rum





Caramelizing Sugar





3/4 pound brown sugar


1/2 cup boiling water





Final Cooking


2 teaspoons grated lime peel


2 teaspoons vanilla


4 cups flour


4 teaspoons baking powder


1 teaspoon ground cloves


1 pound butter (4 sticks) softened


2 1/4 cups sugar


9 large eggs





METHOD


Equipment: Two 9x5x3 inch loaf pans or 1 10 inch tube pan.





Prep Day





Chop currants, raisins, prunes, figs and cherries. Put in large bowl with mixed peel and almonds. Stir to combine. Sprinkle on bitters and pour rum over mixture. Soak for a minimum of 24 hours, extending to one month. (Dream about this cake for whatever period of time you have chosen.)





Caramelizing Sugar





Put brown sugar in heavy pot. Stir, letting sugar liquefy. Cook over low heat until dark, stirring constantly, so sugar does not burn. When almost burnt, remove from heat and stir in hot water gradually. Mix well, let cool, and pour into container for use in final cooking.





Final Cooking





Preheat oven to 250掳F.





Bring fruit from its resting place. Stir lime peel, vanilla and caramelized sugar into fruit. Mix well. Set aside.





Sift together flour, baking powder and cloves. Set aside.





Cream together butter and sugar until mixture is light. Add the eggs, one at a time until blended.





Stir in dry ingredients gradually. When mixed, stir in fruit mixture.





Pour into tins lined with buttered parchment paper or waxed paper. Place pan (or pans) in large shallow pan of hot water. Cook in preheated 250掳F oven for 2 1/2 - 3 hours or until a tester inserted in center of cake comes out clean. Cake should have shrunk from sides of pan.





Cool for 24 hours in pans. When cool, moisten with rum, remove from tins, and wrap in aluminum foil or a rum drenched cloth. Cakes may be stored for a period of time. If keeping for any length of time, check occasionally to add more rum.








Cranberry Sauce - This is the one I make every year


1 bag of cranberries


1 cup of orange juice


1/4 cup Grand Marnier


1 1/2 cups of sugar (or more, depending on how sweet you like it)


1 tablespoon of fresh grated ginger





Put all the ingredients in a saucepan and simmer on low to medium flame until the cranberries have burst and begin to break down. Taste .. add more sugar if necessary at this point while it's warm. It will thicken as it cools.I want to make cranberry sauce and rum cake from scratch. any easy but good recipes?
Here is an easy rum cake recipe:





INGREDIENTS


1 cup chopped walnuts


1 (18.25 ounce) package yellow cake mix


1/2 cup dark rum


4 eggs


1/2 cup water


1/2 cup vegetable oil


1 (3.5 ounce) package instant vanilla pudding mix


Glaze


1/2 cup butter


1/8 cup water


1/2 cup white sugar


1/4 cup rum





DIRECTIONS


Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Grease and flour a 10 inch tube or Bundt pan. Sprinkle nuts over the bottom of the pan.





Mix together the cake mix, 1/2 cup dark rum, eggs, 1/2 cup water, oil, and vanilla pudding mix. Pour batter over the nuts in the pan.





Bake for 1 hour. Cool, and invert cake on a serving plate. Prick the top of the cake.





To Make The Glaze: Melt the butter in a saucepan. Stir in 1/8 cup water and the 1/2 cup sugar. Boil for 5 minutes, stirring constantly. Remove glaze from heat, and stir in 1/4 cup rum. Drizzle and smooth evenly over the top and sides.








I make it every year and it gets great comments and everyone always asks for the recipe.





I don't have one for cranberry sauce as I just get cranberries, orange peel, and read the directions on the bag of cranberries, those recipes are always easy.