Lemon Blueberry Bread
"I love Trader Joe's Blueberry Lemon Bread so I was looking for a recipe that was similar. This what I came up with. Actually, I can't take all of the credit. I modified recipe #19254 for Glazed Lemon Cake slightly and added blueberries, then baked it in loaf pans. My whole family loves this bread. In fact, I think it's better than Trader Joe's Blueberry Lemon Bread....geez....I know, I am so modest ;-)"
photo by Laura Z.
- Ready In:
- 1hr 15mins
- Ingredients:
- 14
- Serves:
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16
ingredients
- 1 cup butter
- 2 cups granulated sugar
- 3 eggs
- 3 cups flour
- 1⁄2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
- 2⁄3 cup buttermilk
- 2 tablespoons tightly packed lemons, zest of
- 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
- 8 ounces frozen blueberries
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Icing
- 8 ounces powdered sugar (or 1/2 box)
- 1⁄4 cup butter, melted
- 1 1⁄2 tablespoons tightly packed lemons, zest of
- 1⁄4 cup fresh lemon juice
directions
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
- Important: grease and flour two loaf pans.
- Cream butter and sugar.
- Add eggs and beat until smooth.
- Add buttermilk.
- Mix dry ingredients together and add to buttermilk mixture.
- Blend well.
- Mix in lemon juice and zest.
- Gently fold in blueberries and only mix until incorporated.
- Pour batter into loaf pans.
- Bake loaves on the middle rack of the oven for 60 to 65 minutes.
- Cool bread 10 minutes, remove from pan and place on a large cookie sheet, top side up.
- For icing: Combind icing ingredients in a bowl.
- Beat icing with an electric mixer until smooth.
- Drizzle icing over the warm loaves.
- The icing will harden when the bread cools to room temperature.
- I thought I should mention, if you make this bread without the addition of the blueberries, the baking time is closer to 50 minutes and I recommend increasing the amount of buttermilk from 2/3 cup to 1 cup.
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Reviews
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This bread rocks the perfect blend of sweet frosting and sour lemon with a blueberry treat in the middle. -
Fabulous recipe! I halved the whole recipe, baked it for about 50 mins. I skipped the glaze.
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This is very good. I did not make the glaze ( not a fan of glazes) I substituted a banana for the butter and replaced 1 cup of flour with whole wheat flour. -
This was really good! I'm on a post pregnancy diet and subbed banana for the butter, fat free greek yogurt for the buttermilk, used whole wheat flour and 1/2 the sugar for brown sugar. I also skipped the glaze. So moist! Will def make again! -
This bread is so good it doesn't even need the glaze. My husband a loaf to work and it was gone in minutes.
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This is very good. I did not make the glaze ( not a fan of glazes) I substituted a banana for the butter and replaced 1 cup of flour with whole wheat flour.
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This was really good! I'm on a post pregnancy diet and subbed banana for the butter, fat free greek yogurt for the buttermilk, used whole wheat flour and 1/2 the sugar for brown sugar. I also skipped the glaze. So moist! Will def make again!
RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
beckas
Bay Area, CA
I love Recipezaar! I have found many great recipes on this site! Since I've found zaar, I've been spending more time making recipes from zaar than I have from my dozens of cookbooks. What can I say....zaar members post darn good recipes! I wish that I could spend more time cooking but I tend to keep meals simple because I work full time as an Microsoft Exchange E-mail Administrator and I spend the rest of my time taking care of my three year old toddler. He demands so much of my time that I don't have as much time to cook as I used to. My favorite hobbies are collecting recipes and photography. I am an amateur photographer and I take pictures at almost every chance that I get. The picture that is posted on this page is a self portrait.
