Almond Poppy Seed Bread
A sweet quick bread recipe that is a mix of a quick bread and pound cake in texture with almond flavoring and poppyseeds and an optional orange glaze.
Ingredients
Bread:
- 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 2 tbsp oil
- 2 tbsp poppy seeds
- 1-1/2 tsp vanilla extract
- 1-1/2 tsp almond extract
- 1-1/2 tsp butter flavoring
Glaze (optional)
- 1/4 cup fresh orange juice
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 1/2 tsp vanilla
- 1/2 tsp almond extract
- 1/2 tsp oil
Instructions
For the bread:
- Preheat oven to 350°. Grease and flour two standard sized loaf pans. (Or use the nonstick spray that has the flour already in it.)
- In your mixer bowl, beat all ingredients together until well combined, about 2 mins.
- Pour the mixture equally in to your prepared loaf pans and bake 45-50 mins or until cake tester is clean. Cool 10 mins in the pan then pop out on to a cooling rack.
For the optional glaze:
- Heat all ingredients until sugar melts. Prick the bread all over with a fork or long skewer, and cover with warm glaze.