It’s a dark, dreary, rainy day here today. The perfect baking day. This Sticky Blueberry Lemon Bread is sure to brighten any day. It’s moist and tender and topped with a tart, sticky glaze that will make your mouth water. And it’s bursting with fresh blueberries of course.
If you have more willpower than I, you can wait until this cools and cut nice pretty slices. Seeing as I don’t have any willpower, I cut this into delightfully thick hunks and devoured mine warm. Who needs willpower anyway?
| Sticky Blueberry Lemon Bread |
A tart, sweet, sticky masterpiece!
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cups flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 6 tablespoons unsalted butter, room temperature
- 1 1/3 cup granulated sugar, divided use
- 2 large eggs
- 2 teaspoons grated lemon peel
- 1/2 cup milk
- 1 1/2 cup fresh blueberries
- 3 tablespoons lemon juice
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
- Butter and sugar a 8 1/2 x 4 1/2 x 2 1/2″ loaf pan; set aside.
- Whisk together flour, baking powder and salt in a small bowl; set aside.
- Using an electric mixer, cream the butter and 1 cup of the sugar together until light and fluffy.
- Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition.
- Add the lemon peel.
- Slowly mix in the flour mixture alternating with the milk, beginning and ending with the flour mixture.
- Lightly coat blueberries with a small amount of flour.
- Gently fold in blueberries into the batter.
- Spoon batter into loaf pan.
- Bake for about one hour until golden brown and a wooden toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean.
- Meanwhile, bring remaining 1/3 cup of sugar and lemon juice to boil in a small saucepan, stirring until sugar dissolves.
- Once removed from the oven, pierce the top of the hot loaf several time without touching the bottom of the loaf in pan.
- Pour the hot sugar mixture over the loaf.
- Cool for 30 minutes in pan on a wire rack.
- Turn bread out of pan and cool completely on rack.
Source: A Muse in My Kitchen
{ 5 comments… read them below or add one }
I just stumbled upon your blog and I love it! I’m super excited to see that I have all the ingredients to make this bread
Beautiful bread!! Wish I still had blueberries in my fridge!
I love it when that happens Christina! I hope you enjoy the bread:-)
Hi Becky
If I leave out the blueberries would I have to add more flour to compensate for the blueberries.
Jackie – I have not tried this without the blueberries so I can’t answer that for sure. If I were to try it without blueberries I would probably leave the remaining ingredients as is. Let me know how it goes!