Cranberry Coffee Cake

Total Time: 1 hr 15 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 1 hr

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup butter
• 1 cup granulated sugar
• 2 large eggs
• 1 teaspoon almond extract
• 1 cup sour cream
• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 (8 ounce) can whole berry cranberry sauce or 1 (16 ounce) can whole berry cranberry sauce
• 1/2 cup chopped almonds or 1/2 cup sliced almonds
• 3/4 cup powdered sugar
• 1 tablespoon warm water
• 1/2 teaspoon orange extract or 1/2 teaspoon almond extract

Recipe

• 1 ***you can use either an 8-ounce or 16 ounce can of cranberry sauce, depending upon how much fruit flavor you want in the cake.
• 2 (i use 16 ounces)*** preheat oven to 325 degrees.
• 3 grease bundt cake pan and sprinkle with chopped almonds.
• 4 mix together salt, baking powder, baking soda, and flour in a bowl and set aside.
• 5 in a mixing bowl, cream butter and sugar.
• 6 add eggs and almond extract to creamed butter mixture.
• 7 beat in dry ingredients alternately with sour cream.
• 8 spoon half of batter into prepared baking pan.
• 9 cover with cranberry sauce.
• 10 top with remaining half of batter.
• 11 bake 1 hour.
• 12 cool 15 minutes before removing from pan.
• 13 note:*** to have two layers of cranberry sauce rather than one, put 1/3 of batter in pan; 1/2 of cranberry sauce, repeating layers ending with batter.
• 14 ***after cake is removed from pan and completely cooled, mix the glaze ingredients together and drizzler over the top of the cake.