Almond Poppy Seed Bread – seriously delicious sweet bread! This recipe makes two loaves – one for you and one for a friend! Sugar, canola oil, eggs, poppy seeds, lemon juice, almond extract, vanilla, flour, baking powder, salt and milk. Top bread with a quick glaze made with powdered sugar, orange juice, vanilla and almond extract. Great for breakfast or an afternoon pick-me-up! #quickbread #sweetbread
Here is another sweet bread recipe that makes a great homemade gift. The best part about this bread is the glaze on top of it. O-M-G! It is SOOOOO good. It is made with orange juice. It really gives this bread a whole new level of flavor. I would love to slice off the top hump of the bread and just eat that all by myself. I don’t, but I want to.
This recipe makes two loaves. I always give one away. This bread is dangerous in our house. We have absolutely no self-control when it is around. This makes a great hostess gift or easy gift for a teacher, neighbor, co-worker or friend. I promise they will love it!
Yield: 2 (9-inch) loaves
Almond Poppy Seed Bread
prep time: 10 MINScook time: 55 MINStotal time: 65 mins
ingredients:
Bread
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2-¼ cups sugar
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1 cup plus 2 Tbsp canola oil
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3 eggs
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3 Tbsp poppy seeds
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1-½ tsp lemon juice
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2 tsp almond extract
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1-½ tsp vanilla extract
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3 cups all-purpose flour
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1-½ tsp baking powder
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1 tsp salt
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1-½ cups milk
Glaze
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¾ cup powdered sugar
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¼ cup orange juice
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½ tsp vanilla extract
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1 tsp almond extract
instructions:
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Preheat oven to 350. Grease two 9×4-inch loaf pans.
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In the bowl on an electric mixer, combine the sugar, oil, eggs, poppy seeds, lemon juice and extracts; beat until well blended. Combine the flour, baking powder and salt; add to sugar mixture alternately with milk, beating just until moistened.
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Pour batter into prepared loaf pans. Bake for 55-60 minutes.
- Combine glaze ingredients until smooth; drizzle over warm loaves. Cool 10 minutes before removing from pans to wire racks.
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Made this today and I can't.stop.eating.it. I followed the recipe exactly except I cut the sugar by 1/4 cup. It's still plenty sweet enough. I was going to give away the other loaf, but now I'm not so sure. 🙂
This bread looks absolutely heavenly. Thanks for such a great recipe! 🙂
This looks so good 🙂 I love almond and I am with you — love that top bit of bread the best!
Made it this morning ,At first it was going to be too much milk ,but the more I stirred the better it looked. It turned out beautiful ! It even taste great ! Thanks !
I make the Jen & Mary's Orange Glazed poppyseed bread all the time. We love it. I am going to try this version.
I have been struggling trying to figure out something to finish off a gift basket for my secretary for Christmas. This will be perfect!
I made this on Sunday to take to church for snacks. I had to improvise since I didn't have any orange juice in the house. I took a large spoonful of peach jam added a splash of water to dilute it and make it liquidy and used that instead of the orange juice. Hey, a girls gotta do what a girls gotta do. It was yummy!!
Question…how is this different than cake? I buy poppy seed cake from the grocery store every once in a while…good stuff. I love the glaze on the top and the richness and moistness of the cake.
This would make a great gift for me Stephanie! I just love this bread, especially the glaze!