Almond Bread

Description
There are many Dutch pastries and desserts made with almond paste. It's popular and delicious. This is a wonderful sweet bread recipe. The prep time includes soaking the cereal. Makes one very large loaf, or two loaves.

Ingredients

 * 1 cup Grape Nuts cereal
 * 3 cups milk
 * 1 cup almond paste, cut into small pieces
 * 2 teaspoons softened butter
 * 3 eggs, beaten
 * 1 1/2 cups sugar
 * 3 cups flour
 * 2 teaspoons baking powder
 * 1 teaspoon baking soda

Directions
Soak cereal in milk for one hour.

Mix all the ingredients together when the cereal has been soaked.

Pour into a loaf pan.

Bake at 350 for about 1 hour.