Lemon Blueberry Bread Recipe

Lemon Blueberry Bread 🍞 🍋 WHAT YOU’LL NEED FOR THIS QUICK BREAD RECIPE: * 1 ½ cups flour * 1 tsp baking powder * ½ tsp. Salt * 1 cup white sugar * ½ cup vegetable oil * 2 eggs * ½ cup milk * Juice from 1 1/2 lemons (about 3 tablespoons) * 1 cup fresh or frozen blueberries  * Zest from 1 lemon, grated Optional glaze: * Juice from ½ lemon * A cup powdered sugar INSTRUCTIONS Step 1: Mix the flour, baking powder and salt together in a bowl. Step 2: In the bowl of an electric mixer, beat together the sugar, oil, eggs, milk, and lemon juice. Step 3: Slowly add the dry ingredients into the liquid ingredients and mix until just combined: Step 4: Carefully fold in the blueberries and lemon zest. Although this is one of those amazing fresh blueberries recipes, you can certainly substitute frozen blueberries and still acheive the same delicious end result. Just toss the frozen blueberries with 1 teaspoon flour to prevent them from sinking into the batter. There is also no need to thaw frozen berries first. Just fold them in in their frozen state. They just may require the bread to have a few more minutes in the oven. Step 5: Pour into prepared loaf pan and bake at 350 degrees for 60-70 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. To prepare a loaf pan for baking this quick bread, grease it with cooking spray. For an extra handy trick, also line it with a strip of parchment paper. Once the bread is baked, the parchment paper can act as “handles” making it easy to pull the loaf out of its pan. Cool slightly in the pan once it is baked fully. Run a knife around the edges and lift the loaf out with the parchment paper “handles”. Then transfer it to a cooling rack to cool completely. Step 6 (optional): Once the blueberry lemon bread is totally cool, glaze the top with a mixture of 1 cup powdered sugar and the juice of ½ lemon. Although the glaze is totally optional, I must admit that it takes this recipe up another notch in deliciousness! It adds the perfect sweet + tangy finishing touch to this moist bread loaf.