Ultimate Lemon Poppy Seed Bread Recipes

LEMON POPPY SEED BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°. In a large bowl, combine cake mix, pudding mix, water, eggs and oil; beat on low speed 30 seconds. Beat on medium 2 minutes. Fold in poppy seeds. , Pour into two greased 9x5-in. loaf pans. Bake until a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean, 35-40 minutes. Cool in pans 10 minutes before removing to a wire rack. Mix confectioner's sugar with water to reach drizzling consistency and use to garnish bread along with lemon zest, if desired.

LEMON POPPY SEED BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F . Line the bottom of two 9-inch loaf pans with a piece of parchment or wax paper. Spray the sides of the pan lightly with cooking spray.
• Mix together flour, salt, baking powder and poppy seeds. In a separate bowl mix together the sugar, milk, eggs, lemon juice, lemon zest, oil, and vanilla.
• Add the wet ingredients and stir until just combined. Divide batter evenly between the prepared pans.
• Bake for 50 minutes - 1 hour, or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the loaf comes out clean. Cool for 5 minutes before inverting onto a wire rack.

LEMON POPPY SEED LOAF

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Heavily grease and flour two 9x5 inch loaf pans.
• Sift together flour, baking soda, and salt. Set aside.
• In a large bowl, cream butter or margarine, and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in eggs, one at a time.
• Mix lemon juice and yogurt together and add alternately with the sifted flour mixture to the butter mixture. Mix until just blended. Stir in lemon rind and poppy seeds. Pour mixture into prepared pans and smooth tops.
• Bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for 50 minutes or until browned and a knife inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool on rack for 15 minutes before turning out of pans.

QUICK LEMON POPPY SEED BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour 2 - 8x4 inch loaf pans.
• In a large bowl, mix together the cake mix, eggs, oil, pudding mix, water, and poppy seeds. Spread batter into two greased 8x4 inch loaf pans.
• Bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for 25 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the cake comes out clean.

GERMAN POPPY SEED STOLLEN (MOHNSTOLLEN)

Steps:

• Place flour in a large bowl, make a well in the center, and crumble fresh yeast into it. Pour 1 cup lukewarm milk into the well and stir into the yeast. Cover and let rise in a warm place until foamy, about 15 minutes.
• Mix flour from the sides of the bowl into the yeast mixture, a little at a time. Add butter, 6 tablespoons sugar, and salt and knead until a soft, pliable dough forms. Cover with a clean dish towel and let rise in a warm place until doubled in volume, about 1 hour.
• Grease a baking sheet with butter. Sprinkle a work surface with flour and roll out dough into a thin rectangle.
• Pour poppy seeds into a bowl and pour 1 cup hot milk on top. Add 3/4 cup sugar, raisins, honey, vanilla sugar, rum, and lemon zest and stir together until filling is well combined. Spread filling over dough rectangle. Roll up rectangle, starting at the longer side, and press seam together with your fingers. Place poppy seed stollen onto the prepared baking sheet with the seam side down. Cover and let stollen rise for 20 minutes.
• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
• Bake stollen in the preheated oven until baked through, about 40 minutes. Allow to cool for about 1 hour and dust with confectioners' sugar.

ULTIMATE LEMON POPPY SEED BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
• Coat 2 (8 1/2" x 4 1/2" x 2 1/2") loaf pans with butter-flavored cooking spray.
• In the bowl of an electric mixer, (I use my kitchen aid one), cream the butter and sugar together until light and fluffy.
• Beat in eggs one at a time. Scrape sides and bottom every so often with a rubber spatula.
• Add the lemon juice, lemon rind and vanilla and beat until combined.
• In another bowl, combine the flour, poppy seeds, baking powder and salt. I usually just mix this well with a whisk to combine evenly.
• Add to the egg mixture and stir until just moistened.
• Divide the batter between the 2 prepared pans.
• Bake about 1 hour, until golden brown and a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool in pans 10 minutes.
• Invert onto wire racks.
• Cool further til wrappable with plastic wrap without any steam. Wrap tightly to keep fresh and moist.

POPPY SEED BREAD

Steps:

• In a large bowl, combine first five ingredients. Add the eggs, milk, oil and extracts. Pour into two greased 8x4-in. loaf pans. Bake at 350° for 60-65 minutes. Cool completely in pans. , In a saucepan, bring glaze ingredients to a boil. Pour over bread in pans. Cool for 5 minutes before removing from pans to wire racks to cool completely.

POPPY SEED BREAD WITH GLAZE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease bottoms of two 9-inch loaf pans.
• Mix together flour, salt, baking powder, poppy seeds, butter flavoring, oil, eggs, milk, sugar, vanilla, and almond flavoring. Pour into prepared pans.
• Bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for one hour. Cool 5 minutes. Poke holes in top of loaves and pour glaze over.
• To make glaze: Mix orange juice, 1/2 teaspoon butter flavoring, 1/2 teaspoon almond flavoring, and 1 teaspoon vanilla. Add enough confectioners' sugar to make glaze.