Best 4 Lemon Poppy Seed Sweet 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.

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.

LEMON POPPY SEED BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease three 8x4 inch bread pans.
• In a large mixing bowl, stir together the flour, salt, baking powder, poppy seeds and 2 1/2 cups white sugar. Add the eggs, milk, oil, vanilla and lemon extract; mix until smooth, about 1 minute. Pour batter evenly into the prepared pans.
• Bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for 50 to 55 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the loaves comes out clean. Cool loaves in the pans for 10 minutes before removing to a wire rack.
• Combine orange juice with remaining 3/4 cup sugar and desired flavor of extract; stir well. Pour this mixture over the loaf while it is still hot. Allow loaf to cool completely before serving.

SWEET POPPY SEED BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• With electric mixer, combine oil, applesauce, and sugar.
• Add almond, butter, and vanilla flavorings.
• Blend in milk.
• Add eggs and blend until combined.
• Add flour and baking powder.
• Blend in poppy seeds.
• Spray two loaf pans with nonstick spray, or prepare muffin pan with nonstick spray or muffin papers.
• Bake bread at 350 degrees for 55-60 minutes (muffins take about 20-25 minutes).
• Pour glaze on bread or muffins while still warm. I do this a little bit at a time so the bottom doesn't get soggy.