Almond Cranberry Cake is flavored with fresh cranberries and almond pasta and topped with an ultra rich mascarpone frosting. Perfect for the holidays!

Festive Holiday Dessert

Mini Almond Cranberry Bundt Cakes with Mascarpone Frosting are the perfect festive dessert for the holiday season. A hefty dose of almond paste gives these cakes an intense almond flavor and helps keep them moist. Chopped fresh cranberries not only add little bursts of tartness, but a gorgeous visual as well. The beautiful red color of cranberries just can’t be beat. They were absolutely made for Christmas.

Almond is my absolute favorite flavor for cake. We served almond pound cake at our wedding and this fabulous Almond Cake with Amaretto Frosting was my very first post on this blog. I find I can’t let a Christmas season go by without making some sort of almond cake. To me  almond cake to be absolutely, positively heavenly.
Rich Mascarpone Frosting

A slightly sweet mascarpone frosting gives a beautiful and rich finishing touch to these cakes, but they are absolutely delicious with no frosting. I made individual cakes in a Bundtlette Pan but you could also make 1 big Bundt cake. I made 6 mini-Bundts and used the remaining batter to make mini-muffins which were also delicious. The recipe I adapted supposedly yields 12 mini-Bundt cakes but to me it didn’t quite look like there was enough batter for 12. Ten is probably more like it.

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