Lemon Bread Recipe

By dette

I often bake this sunshiny-sweet bread when company's due. It has a pound cake-like texture. —Kathy Scott, Lingle, Wyoming

Ingredients

• GLAZE:
• Ingredients
• 1/2 cup butter, softened
• 1 cup sugar
• 2 eggs
• 2 tablespoons lemon juice
• 1 tablespoon grated lemon peel
• 1-1/2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/8 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 cup 2% milk
• 1/2 cup confectioners' sugar
• 2 tablespoons lemon juice

Details

Servings 1
Adapted from tasteofhome.com

Preparation

Step 1

Directions
In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in the eggs, lemon juice and peel. Combine the flour, baking powder and salt; gradually stir into creamed mixture alternately with milk, beating well after each addition.
Pour into a greased 8-in. x 4-in. loaf pan. Bake at 350° for 45 minutes or until a toothpick inserted near the center comes out clean.
Combine glaze ingredients. Remove bread from pan; immediately drizzle with glaze. Cool on a wire rack. Serve warm. Yield: 1 loaf (12 slices).
Nutritional Facts
1 serving (1 slice) equals 171 calories, 7 g fat (4 g saturated fat), 43 mg cholesterol, 113 mg sodium, 26 g carbohydrate, trace fiber, 2 g protein.