Glazed Lemon Bread

Source: Simply Recipes

Yield: 1 loaf

Ingredients

  • Butter, softened: 4 Ounces
  • Granulated sugar, minus 1 Tbsp: 1 Cups
  • Honey: 1 Tablespoons
  • Eggs, room temperature: 2 Each
  • Lemon zest: 1 Tablespoons
  • Whole milk: 1/2 Cups
  • Salt: 1/2 Teaspoons
  • Flour: 1 1/2 Cups
  • Ground cardamom: 1/2 Teaspoons
  • Baking powder: 1 Teaspoons
  • Glaze: lemon juice: 1/4 Cups
  • Glaze: sugar: 1/3 Cups
  • Glaze: honey: 1 Tablespoons

    • =Instructions=

Preheat oven to 350ºF. Butter a 4×8-inch loaf pan.
Beat the butter until fluffy, about 2 minutes. Add the sugar and honey, continue to beat until creamy, a few minutes more. Add eggs, one at a time, beating after each addition to incorporate. On low speed, slowly beat the milk in. Do not worry if the mixture looks a little curdled. Mix in lemon zest.
Sift together the flour, salt, cardamom, baking powder. Add to the wet ingredients, beating until smooth.
Place batter in prepared pan and bake for 1 hour at 350ºF.
While the lemon bread is baking, prepare the glaze. Heat the glaze ingredients – lemon juice, sugar, honey – in a small saucepan until the sugar is completely dissolved.
Once you have removed the bread from the oven, poke holes all over the top with a thin skewer (this will help the glaze penetrate). Spoon the glaze over it while the bread is still in the pan and is still hot. Let cool for 10 minutes before removing from pan and slicing to serve.