Meg Ryan's Cranberry Almond Bread

Description
Contributed by Catsrecipes Y-Group
 * Serves 12

Ingredients

 * 2½ cups all-purpose flour
 * 1½ tsp baking powder
 * 1½ tsp baking soda
 * ½ tsp salt
 * 1¼ cups granulated sugar
 * ½ cup (1 stick) butter, at room temperature
 * 3 eggs
 * 1 tbsp almond extract
 * 1 (16 oz) can whole cranberry sauce
 * ¾ cup sour cream

Directions

 * 1) Heat oven to 350°F.
 * 2) Grease and flour a 12-cup bundt pan.
 * 3) In a medium bowl, combine flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt.
 * 4) Stir to mix.
 * 5) In a large bowl with an electric mixer, gradually beat sugar into butter.
 * 6) Add eggs 1 at a time, beating well after each addition.
 * 7) Blend in almond extract.
 * 8) Stir together cranberry sauce and sour cream.
 * 9) In several batches, add dry ingredients to butter mixture alternately with cranberry sour cream, beating until blended.
 * 10) Batter will be thick.
 * 11) Turn into bundt pan; smooth top.
 * 12) Bake 1 hr 10 minutes, or until cake is nicely browned on top and beginning to pull away from sides of pan.
 * 13) Let cool 10 minutes, then run a dull knife around inside and outer edges of pan to loosen.
 * 14) Unmold onto a wire rack and allow to cool completely before slicing.
 * 15) Drizzle with your choice of icing if you would like.