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Lemon blueberry bread made with freshly squeezed lemon juice, lemon zest and baked to perfection!
This easy Lemon blueberry bread makes a great sweet breakfast!
It's an easy bread recipe - takes about 15 minutes to make, and you can use either fresh or frozen blueberries.
It's quite refreshing to have a slice of this lemon blueberry bread for breakfast with a cup of hot tea or coffee! It works great as a coffee cake!
Make sure to coat the berries in flour before folding them into the batter - it will help prevent them from sinking!
If you have trouble retrieving your breads from the bread pan in one piece, I suggest greasing the pan with butter, then lining the bottom and 2 sides of it with parchment paper, and greasing the parchment paper too:
Then, add the cake batter to the pan. It should be about this much full:
And bake your blueberry lemon bread to perfection until tester comes out clean and the top is golden-brown:
Lemon blueberry bread
Ingredients
- ⅓ cup butter melted
- 1 cup white sugar
- ¼ cup lemon juice freshly squeezed
- 2 eggs
- 1 ½ cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon salt
- ½ cup milk
- 2 tablespoons lemon zest grated
- 1 cup blueberries fresh or frozen
- 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
- Butter an 8x4 inch loaf pan, line the bottom and two sides of the pan with the parchment paper, as shown in the photo.
- In a mixing bowl, beat together butter, 1 cup sugar, lemon juice and eggs.
- In a separate bowl, combine flour, baking powder and salt; stir into egg mixture alternately with milk.
- In the same bowl where you combined flour, add blueberries and toss them in 2 tablespoons of flour. This will help prevent blueberries from sinking.
- Fold in lemon zest, and blueberries into the batter. Pour batter into prepared pan.
- Bake in preheated oven for about 60 minutes, until a toothpick inserted into center of the loaf comes out clean. Cool bread in pan for 40 minutes on a wire rack.
Notes
Nutrition
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do you think i can replace milk with a non-dairy alternative (rice milk)?
Hi Julia, I made this a few days ago. As soon as it was cooled it was devoured by us all 🙂 Very very good! Just a perfect balance of flavor. I will be sharing a few loaves this holiday season... maybe
I love when the food I make disappears right away. 🙂 and everyone is happy as a result ... 🙂
Two of my favorite ingredients; lemon and blueberries! It looks delicious. Of courses, I had to pin it for future baking. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for pinning, Debbie. I love blueberries and lemon, too, especially when baking.
Just made this & it's so moist + yummy. I used RealLemon juice + omitted zest & it was still great. Thank you
I am glad you liked it!
Just made this and it is delicious.
It's soft and creamy. I cooked it 15 more minutes but that's just cuz my bf and I like the harder top.
I love that I did not have to use whole milk. I used fat free milk and gluten free flower and I could say this gets 5 stars.
Will make again. !
Kate, thank you so much for sharing how it turned out for you! I recently became gluten intolerant, so it's good to know that this recipe can be successfully made with gluten free flour!
I just went blueberry picking and I can't wait to make this bread! It is exactly the recipe I was looking for 🙂
Hi Eva - this is one of my favorite recipes to use blueberries. 🙂
2 tablespoons grated lemon zest - I do not know what this is -- can you explain?
Kathy, here is how Wikipedia defines lemon zest - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zest_%28ingredient%29
Made this today and it's already almost gone! So delish! Thank you for sharing!
I am glad you liked it! 🙂
Wow! Look at that blueberry loaded bread! Who can resist this beauty? Pinning!
So beautifully moist and delicious!
Lovely contrasts!
ela h.
Drooling!
YUM! This is totally up my alley! Love lemon and blueberry together.
Just got out of the oven a little bit ago, all's I can say is yuk and a waste of my money on the blueberries