Poppy Seed Bread

Since my family of four will be staying with my grandmothers for Thanksgiving we decided we should bring something festive for us to eat each morning. My family's go-to breakfast bread around the holidays is a  poppy seed bread with an orange glaze. It is actually more like a desert but around the holidays sweets are appropriate at every meal. Below is our delicious poppy seed bread recipe. 

Getting all the ingredients together

Poppy Seed Bread:

Ingredients: 

- 3 eggs, slightly beaten

- 2 1/4 cup sugar

- 1 1/2 cup vegetable oil

- 1 1/2 cup milk

- 3 cup flour

- 1 1/2 tsp baking powder

- 1 1/2 tsp salt

- 1 1/2 tbl poppy seeds

- 2 tsp almond extract

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease and flour 3 loaf pans. 

2. Beat together eggs, sugar, vegetable oil, and milk. 

3. Sift together dry ingredients. Then beat into egg mixture.

Dry mixture sifted together

4. Stir in poppy seeds and almond extract.

Adding the poppy seeds and almond extract

5. Divide batter into prepared loaf pans. 

6. Bake 1 hour or until toothpick comes out clean.

The pans filled and in the oven

7. While the bread is cooking begin to prepare the glaze.

Ingredients for the delicious orange glaze

Orange Glaze

Ingredients: 

- 1/4 cup concentrated orange juice thawed

- 3/4 cup powdered sugar

- 1/2 tsp vanilla extract

- 1 tsp almond extract

Directions: 

1. Combine orange glaze ingredients.

2. Mix until the glaze has no lumps remaining.

Mixing the glaze....once complete there should be no lumps

3. Cool bread in pan 10 minutes. Top with glaze while the bread is warm.

Bread straight out of the oven

Bread freshly glazed