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Poppy Seed Bread with Glaze

Poppy Seed Bread with Glaze is fantastic lemon poppy seed recipe with fresh lemon juice and powdered sugar glaze. Easily served as afternoon cake, it turns into dessert everybody loves!

Course Breakfast, Dessert
Cuisine American
Keyword Poppy Seed Bread with Glaze
Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 58 minutes
Total Time 1 hour 18 minutes
Servings 1 bread

Ingredients

  • 4 eggs
  • 1 ½ cup all purpose flour
  • 1 ½ cup vegetable oil ( I used sunflower oil )
  • 1 ½ cup milk
  • 1 cup white sugar
  • 2 Tbsp baking powder
  • 2 Tbsp vanilla extract
  • Fresh lemon zest of 2 lemons
  • 2 Tbsp lemon juice
  • 2 Tbsp poppy seeds
  • Ingredients for the glaze :
  • 1 cup powdered sugar
  • 3 Tbsp fresh lemon juice

Instructions

  1. Preheat the oven to 150 C / 300 F.

  2. Cover 7 ½  cups, 11 x 3 ½  inches bread pan with baking paper and spray with non-stick cooking spray. Leave aside.

  3. In medium sized bowl, combine dry ingredients, using spatula ( flour, sugar, baking powder,poppy seeds ). Leave aside.

  4. Mix eggs at high speed for two minutes and add wet ingredients. Slowly add dry ingredients and lemon zest to get smooth texture.

  5. Pour the batter into the pan and bake at 150 C / 300 F for 30 minutes.

  6. Set the temperature to 170 C / 340 F and bake another 28 minutes. Check if baked with a toothpick inserted in the middle of the bread. If clean, take the bread out.

  7.  Leave to cool in the pan.

  8.  In a mug, whisk the powdered sugar and lemon juice.

  9. Take the bread out of the pan, turn it upside down and place on a serving plate. Pour the glaze over the top, spread to fully cover, slice and enjoy.