Glazed Almond Poppy Seed Bread Recipe

Glazed Almond Poppy Seed Bread is a delicious sweet bread with a perfectly moist crumb quick bread recipe and filled with almond flavor and has a great tangy lemon glaze.

Prep Time25

Cook Time1

Cool Time30

Total Time1 55

Course: Dessert, Snack

Cuisine: American

Keyword: Best quick bread recipe, Glazed Almond Poppy Seed Bread, sweet bread

Servings:

Calories: 440kcal

Equipment

Ingredients

1½ cups all-purpose flour
1½ teaspoons baking powder
½ teaspoon baking soda
2 Tablespoons poppy seeds
pinch of salt
½ cup butter
1 cup granulated sugar
1 Tablespoon lemon zest
3 eggs at room temperature
1 cup sour cream
½ Tablespoon lemon juice
¾ teaspoon almond extract
1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Glaze

1 cup powdered sugar
1½ Tablespoons milk
1½ Tablespoons lemon juice
½ teaspoon almond extract

Instructions

Prep. Preheat the oven to 350°F (177°C) and generously grease a 9X5 loaf pan with butter.
Combine the dry ingredients. Whisk together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, poppy seeds, and salt and set aside.
Cream. Cream together the butter, sugar, and lemon zest until significantly lighter in color and fluffy in texture.
Combine the wet ingredients. Mix the eggs into the butter mixture one at a time. Then mix in the sour cream followed by the lemon juice, almond extract, and vanilla extract.
Put it all together. Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and mix by hand until just combined.
Bake. Pour the batter into the prepared loaf pan and bake for 50-60 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center of the loaf comes out clean.
Cool. Allow the cake to cool in the pan for 10 minutes or so before turning it out onto a wire rack to cool completely.
Make the glaze. Whisk together the powdered sugar, milk, lemon juice, and almond extract.
Glaze the loaf. Drizzle the glaze over the fully cooled loaf.

Notes

This almond lemon poppy seed bread would work great as either mini loaves or almond poppy seed muffins! Just make sure that you adjust the baking time when you reduce the size of the loaf cake.

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