Happy Tuesday everyone!
If you happen to live in a house with an oven, do me a favor.
Make this bread.
Make it today and watch your family
fall all the more in love with you.
Just trust me.
One bite and you will have died and gone straight to heaven.
More love from your family and a guaranteed trip to heaven.
What more could you ask for, seriously?
Where did I come across this recipe, you might ask?
Let me just tell you all about it.
There is a great lady named Laura who writes the blog
She posts a new recipe on her site 5 times a week.
Can you even imagine the energy that would take!
Producing a wonderful website is not
the only thing Laura has been up to lately.
She has a wonderful cookbook coming out in just a few weeks.
The photos are beautiful.
The recipes are simple, delicious and appealing to families.
This Glazed Poppy Seed bread comes from Laura’s book.
The Cedar Fort Book Company is offering a
Real Mom Kitchen Cookbook
to one of you lucky readers.
Woo Hoo!
To enter the giveaway leave me a comment telling me your favorite simple summer time meal.
You may enter until Monday July 25th at midnight.
The lucky winner will be
announced on Tuesday morning.
For a second entry head over to
and subscribe to her blog
through email, rss feed, or facebook.
Then come back here and tell me you did so.
Good Luck, everyone!
Now, let’s get busy and make this bread, shall we?
1. Stir your flour, salt, baking powder and sugar together in a medium sized mixing bowl with a wire whisk.
Just look at those beautiful flavorings……
2. In a separate mixing bowl whisk up your eggs until they are nice and frothy. Add the milk, vanilla, almond extract, butter flavoring and oil.
Wisk it all together until its nicely combined.
3. Pour in your poppy seeds and give it another whisking to incorporate.
4. Pour the wet ingredients into the dry.
Using a wooden spoon, stir everything together just until combined. You don’t want a lot of flour clumps, but you don’t want to over mix here either.
5. Take a piece of parchment paper and trace the shape of the bottom of your pan onto it with a pencil. Fold the paper over and cut two pieces out, using the pencil tracing as a guide.
6. Place the cut paper into the bottom of your pans and spray it with cooking spray. It works best if you use a cooking spray that has flour in it. Baker’s Joy works like a charm. Pam Cooking Spray also has a cooking spray with added flour. Buy one…you won’t be sorry.
7. Pour the batter into your pans. Bake at 350 for 45-55 minutes or until a toothpick inserted comes out clean.
8. While the bread is baking, make the glaze. It’s super easy! Juice your orange into a small mixing bowl. Add all other ingredients and stir it well.
9. When your bread is done, remove it from the oven and let it rest for about 3 minutes. Run a knife around the edges of the pan and then carefully dump the bread out of the pans and onto a cooling rack. Place a large cookie sheet under your cooling rack.
10. Give your glaze a few stirs to be sure all ingredients are mixed together and then pour it over the top of your bread. Brush the glaze that falls onto the cookie sheet over the loaves. Let the bread sit for about 10 minutes to soak up the glaze. Then dig in my friend…..enjoy a little trip to heaven today!
Enjoy!
Ingredients
- 3 C flour
- 1 1/2 t salt
- 1 1/2 t baking powder
- 2 1/2 C sugar
- 3 eggs
- 1 1/2 C milk
- 1 1/2 t almond extract
- 1 1/2 t vanilla extract
- 1 1/2 t butter flavoring
- 1 C + 2 T canola oil
- 1/4 C poppy seeds
- GLAZE:
- 3/4 C sugar
- 1/4 C freshly squeezed orange juice
- 1 1/2 t vanilla
- 1/2 t butter flavoring
- 1/2 t almond extract
Instructions
1. Stir your flour, salt, baking powder and sugar together in a medium sized mixing bowl with a wire whisk.
2. In a separate mixing bowl whisk up your eggs until they are nice and frothy. Add the milk, vanilla, almond extract, butter flavoring and oil. Wisk it all together until its nicely combined.
3. Pour in your poppy seeds and give it another whisking to incorporate.
4. Pour the wet ingredients into the dry. Using a wooden spoon, stir everything together just until combined. You don't want a lot of flour clumps, but you don't want to over mix here either.
5. Take a piece of parchment paper and trace the shape of the bottom of your pan onto it with a pencil. Fold the paper over and cut two pieces out, using the pencil tracing as a guide.
6. Place the cut paper into the bottom of your pans and spray it with cooking spray. It works best if you use a cooking spray that has flour in it. Baker's Joy works like a charm. Pam Cooking Spray also has a cooking spray with added flour. Buy one...you won't be sorry.
7. Pour the batter into your pans. Bake at 350 for 45-55 minutes or until a toothpick inserted comes out clean.
8. While the bread is baking, make the glaze. It's super easy! Juice your orange into a small mixing bowl. Add all other ingredients and stir it well.
9. When your bread is done, remove it from the oven and let it rest for about 3 minutes. Run a knife around the edges of the pan and then carefully dump the bread out of the pans and onto a cooling rack. Place a large cookie sheet under your cooling rack.
10. Give your glaze a few stirs to be sure all ingredients are mixed together and then pour it over the top of your bread. Brush the glaze that falls onto the cookie sheet over the loaves. Let the bread sit for about 10 minutes to soak up the glaze. Then dig in my friend.....enjoy a little trip to heaven today!
Recipe from my lovely friend and fellow food blogger,
Real Mom Kitchen
This bread looks heavenly! Mmm…..maybe I'll have to make it this week! My favorite summer meal is probably anything with summer veggies. I love grilled corn and a barbecue or zucchini fries and a summer sandwich!
I subscribed to her blog through the RSS feed.
My favorite summer time food is just simply hamburgers on the grill! I have been making my own patties lately though and they are sooo much better than frozen!!
Jennifer
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Wow, I'm feeling very out of the loop. I obviously haven't been paying attention to my Real mom kitchen info lately. So exciting that she has a book.
My favorite easy summertime meal – at least this week – is some black forest ham with a nice salad and either some quick mashed potatoes or my microwave mac n cheese. Quick, easy, cool, no oven involved. ๐ (we didn't heat our ham.)
I subscribed to Real Mom Kitchen.
Jennifer
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I have remedied my out of the loop problem by subscribing to real mom kitchen via fb. I only had her on my blogroll before that. ๐
Love caprese salad made with tomatoes just picked by the boys from our garden
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Favorite summer meal is breaded and fried zucchini, fresh sliced tomatoes, corn on the cob and fresh bread.
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we often grill chicken soaked in a dr pepper marinade, and serve it with grilled fresh veggies. yum!
I made bruschetta for dinner — diced grape tomatoes mixed with balsamic vinegar, dried oregano, dried basil, and parmesan cheese spread on a sliced baguette and topped with mozzarella. So good! And the oven only had to be on for 10 minutes! ๐ lindsay23 (at) gmail (dot) com