Make Starbucks Lemon Loaf
You might have a special place in your heart for the delicious pastries at Starbucks, but you don't have to go there to enjoy this one.
Contents
Ingredients
For the Loaf:
- 1½ cups plain flour
- ½ teaspoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon sea salt
- 3 eggs
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 2 tablespoons unsalted butter
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 2 teaspoons lemon extract
- ⅓ cup lemon juice
- ½ cup olive oil
- Lemon zest from 1 lemon
For the Glaze:
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 2 tablespoons whole milk
- ½ teaspoon lemon extract
Steps
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. While oven is heating, grease and flour a loaf pan.
- Mix flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt in a large mixing bowl. Use a wire whisk to mix together.
- Combine eggs, sugar, butter, vanilla extract, lemon extract and lemon juice in a mixing bowl. Consider using an electric mixer to make the process easier.
- Pour dry ingredients into wet ingredient bowl and combine. For best results add dry ingredients slowly and in increments so the dry ingredients don't spill from the bowl.
- Add oil and lemon zest and continue to mix well.
- Pour mixture into the pre-greased loaf pan and place in oven.
- Bake for 45 minutes and test loaf pan for doneness using a toothpick. If the toothpick comes out clean the loaf is ready to be removed from the oven.
- Make loaf cake glaze. Whisk powdered sugar, milk and lemon extract together in a bowl.
- Drizzle glaze over cooling loaf and allow to cool completely on a wire rack.
Tips
- Bring eggs to room temperature before adding to mixture. Cold eggs may compromise the levity of the loaf.
- Measure baking soda and powder carefully. Too much of either can collapse the loaf in the oven.
- Allow loaf to cool completely before removing from loaf pan (to avoid collapse).
- Add more lemon zest to the glaze for an extra lemon flavor.
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