Saturday, October 11, 2014

Glazed Lemon Zucchini Bread

From the Lil' Luna blog here:
http://lilluna.com/glazed-lemon-zucchini-bread/

And cut and pasted here for convenience:
Ingredients
  • 2 cups cake flour
  • 1/2 tsp. salt
  • 2 tsp. baking powder
  • 2 eggs
  • 1/2 cup canola oil
  • 1 1/3 cups sugar
  • 2 TB lemon juice
  • 1/2 cup buttermilk
  • zest of 1 lemon
  • 1 cup grated zucchini
  • Glaze ingredients:
  • 1 cup powdered sugar
  • 2 TB lemon juice
  • 1 TB milk

Instructions
  1. Mix flour, salt and baking powder in a medium bowl and set aside.
  2. In a large bowl, beat eggs. Then add oil and sugar until well blended. Add lemon juice, buttermilk, lemon zest to this mixture and blend all together.
  3. Fold in zucchini until it is mixed well.
  4. Add dry mixture to the wet mixture and blend all together until well combined.
  5. Pour batter into greased 9x5 loaf pan.
  6. Bake at 350 for 40-45 minutes.
  7. While still warm, make glaze and spoon over the bread. Let the glaze set up before cutting and serving.

Once again I forgot to take photos of the bread, but visit the blog above because she posted many great photos of it.

This was AMAAAAZING!  So so so so good!  Husband-of-Cheerios agreed and thought that I should not have brought any to work.  I had to bring some to work though - how else would I get a proper rating?  I'm just going to have to make some again.  Not too soon though because this is DANGEROUSLY tasty and should only be made rarely or to entice cheating during weight loss contests.

I did bring some to work, put it anonymously in the lunch room with a bunch of post-it notes and received the following reviews:

* I'm personally not a big lemon fan - but these are phenomenal! Not too sweet, the icing compliments it so well.  And I'm a sweet person but I love how these can be eaten a lot and it's not too sweet!  Great work & Thank you!
* So Yummy!
* Excellent flavor!  The lemon flavor is delicious and the zucchini taste is very subtle & not overwhelming.  Not overly sweet!
* What's with the zucchini?  Maybe raspberries?  You made me eat veggies!  Very good!
* Very deliciously moist and sweet
* Oh my! This was amazing!  The icing on top was the perfect finishing touch! Thank you so much!
* Excellent texture, spot on sweetness & acidity.  Well done.
* Delicious - love the taste of lemon here!
* So good!



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