Looking for a delicious lemon bread? Try our moist and tasty Lemon Poppy Seed Bread. A quick and easy bread recipe!
LEMON POPPY SEED BREAD
My family loves when I whip up a simple quick and easy bread recipe. We haven’t made this lemon bread for a while now. So I thought it was time to whip up one of our family’s favorite… Lemon Poppy Seed Bread.
LEMON BREAD
This Lemon Poppy Seed Bread recipe never disappoints. And the Lemon Glaze gives it an extra lemony zing. The weather here has been amazing and the promise of summer is finally here, and lemony desserts scream summer.
TIPS FOR MAKING QUICK BREAD
Quick breads are traditionally easier to make than yeast breads, but there are a few tips and tricks to making sure your quick bread recipes turn out great every time you bake them.
- Avoid over-mixing the batter. Stir the wet ingredients together well and then mix in the dry ingredients so that the batter is lumpy. Over-mixing will produce a tougher bread.
- Quick Breads with nuts actually taste better the day after baking. So wrap up the loaf of bread in plastic and store overnight before slicing and serving.
- Check your quick breads 15 minutes before the baking time is up. If the bread is browning too much on the top, cover the top with foil to prevent the bread from burning and drying out.
- Test the loaf with a toothpick in the center of the bread. If it comes out clean the bread is finished baking.
- If your bread has a crack along the top of it, that is actually a good thing. It means that your bread batter has expanded properly.
BREAD LOAF PANS
We love to bake our quick breads in these long loaf bread pans! The bread seems to bake more evenly without burning around the edges and remaining uncooked in the middle. You can find the ones we use here.
LEMON POPPYSEED WITH GLAZE
If you are heading to a family Easter party, this Lemon Poppy Seed Bread could be the perfect addition to your table. Or serve it up for a Baby Shower or Bridal shower.
Lemon Poppy Seed Bread
Looking for a delicious lemon bread? Try our moist and tasty Lemon Poppy Seed Bread. A quick and easy bread recipe!
Ingredients
- 3 cups flour
- 2 1/2 cups sugar
- 1 1/2 tsp. salt
- 1 1/2 tsp. baking powder
- 3 eggs
- 1 1/2 cups milk
- 1 cup plus 1 Tbsp. vegetable oil
- 2 Tbsp. poppy seeds
- 1 1/2 Tbsp. lemon juice
- 1 1/2 tsp. vanilla extract
- lemon zest optional
- 1 1/2 tsp. almond extract
Lemon Glaze
- 1/4 cup orange juice
- 3/4 cup powdered sugar
- 1/2 tsp. almond extract
- 1/4 tsp vanilla extract
- 1/2 tsp lemon juice
- 1/2 tsp vegetable oil
Instructions
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Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease two large loaf pans (9×5) and set aside.
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Place all ingredients in a bowl and mix with an electric beater for 2 minutes. Pour into pans and bake for 55 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the middle of the bread comes out clean.
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Let bread cool completely. While cooling make the lemon glaze.
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Drizzle lemon glaze over the top and sides of the Lemon Bread.
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Keeps up to one week in air-tight container.
QUICK BREAD RECIPES
Looking for some other easy to make and delicious quick bread recipes? Check out these other quick breads we have shared!
- Copycat Great Harvest Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Bread Recipe
- Lemon Poppy Seed Strawberry Swirl Bread
- Lemon Raspberry Loaf Bread
- Oatmeal Cranberry Quick Bread
- Best Banana Bread Recipe
- Zucchini Bread Recipe
- Orange Cranberry Bread
- Chocolate Cinnamon Bread
- Chocolate Marbled Banana Bread
- Raspberry Chocolate Chip Banana Bread
- Peanut Butter Banana Bread with Chocolate Chips
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Thanks for sharing Amy, I love anything lemon! I can’t wait to make this!
Thanks Mindy! Are you going on the Timpanogos hike with K? I am going! It would be fun if you came! :)
I’m not but my hubby is, I make him do this one since I do most of the other field trips, Sorry! We should try and fit lunch in before school gets out though, I would love that.
This is my go to lemon bread/ cake. I don’t know how many times I’ve made this. Great recipe!
The lemon glaze on this bread is a little runny. If you want to thicken it a little add 1/2 to 1 tsp. corn starch. I’ve been poking wholes in the bread and pouring the glaze over while it is still warm. Also, if you squeze the other half of the lemon used to make the bread into a 1/4 measuring cup and then top it off with the orange juice, you get a more lemony bread.
This looks delicious, but I’m confused. There’s no lemon in the bread or the glaze?
Thank you so much for noticing that. I accidently left that out when I was typing it up. It has been fixed. Great catch! Don’t want anyone to have trouble with the recipe.
Any GF suggestions? I’d love tips on adjusting it for a GF version.
I know right? I am working on trying to learn how to convert my recipes to GF and am not savvy enough in the kitchen yet. I will share one if I can figure it out. I need to eat GF too. But sometimes my family just wants me to make their favorite recipes instead of having to eat my new food allergy restrictions :)
This looks so yummy! I will be making this…soon!
This looks absolutely delish!
Hi Amy! I wanted to let you know that your photo has been plagiarized by a large, high-traffic recipe site here – http://www.getcrocked.com/2014/02/10/slow-cooker-lemon-poppy-seed-bread/ This woman has over 1 million facebook fans as well as an e-book (likely with plagiarized photos and recipes), and an app in the itunes store. I have been searching her site and finding MANY recipes where she has stolen a photo from a blog or recipe site with no credit, and attached it to a slow cooker recipe (which is obviously very misleading, as a loaf of lemon poppy seed bread from a crock pot certainly wouldn’t look nearly as pretty as yours does!) Just thought you’d like to know in case you want to take action against this woman and her website. But I am pinning your recipe – it sounds delicious!
Thank you so much for letting me know about this. I will be checking it out. I certainly did not give permission for it to be used in that way. I always appreciate my readers looking out for me and others work! xo
Hi… this looks yummie! Can I use this same recipe and make muffins? Thanks…
This doesn’t seem to be enough powdered sugar for the glaze. I’ve made this about 3 times now & have had to add extra powdered sugar or it’s way too thin. Is this maybe a typo? It’s delicious! I lost the recipe & thought I had pinned it on pinterest and turned out it was a different one so have frantically been searching and finally found it. Have 5 mini loaves in the oven right now & smells amazing!
I love the recipe but I’m having the same trouble with the glaze being too thin. Should it be 3 to 4 cups of powdered sugar rather than 3/4 cup?
It looks like this recipe is to make 2 loaves. Can I halve this recipe if I just want to make one loaf?
I agree it isn’t as lemony as I would have liked. Next time I will try adding some lemon extract. It was still very YUMMY! Thanks for sharing!
You can for sure add more Lemon. Glad you enjoyed the recipe.
My daughter LOVES lemon poppy seed muffins but this is the first we’ve tried bread- YUMMY!!!
Becca- Yay, so glad that you enjoyed this recipe!
This look so moist and delicious! My family will LOVE your recipe!
Heather- It really is delicious. Enjoy!
This is by far one of my most favorites breads/muffins!! It’s so refreshing & light & I love that glaze!
Thanks for sharing this amazing bread recipe! Love it! will surely try this for the fam.
Allyssa- So happy you loved it!
Love the smell of this bread when it’s in the oven!! I can’t get enough!1
Natalie- I do too!