Glazed Lemon Zucchini Bread

Glazed Lemon Zucchini Bread

Glazed Lemon Zucchini Bread

So, unless you have been totally out of touch for the past month, you know it’s zucchini season!  If you know anyone with a garden, you can probably get as much as you want for free.   Typically, these people are begging anyone to take the stuff off their hands.  This results in people searching for new recipes every year, creating new recipes every year.  By the time the plants stop producing for the year, those of us who cook or bake at all have made it breaded and fried, grilled, stir-fried, roasted, zucchini bread, zucchini muffins, zucchini pancakes, zucchini cake, zucchini cookies….the list goes on and on.  My father-in-law has given us pounds of the stuff.

I mentioned that I have been spending a fair amount of time at my son’s house.  I recently re-gifted some zucchini to them.  His girlfriend, Mindy, came across this recipe over on lilluna.com, and wisely decided we should give it a try.  If you like lemon, you’re gonna love this one.  It is delicious.  And a really refreshing change from the typical cinnamon based zucchini bread.  So then, Mindy decided to try it out as muffins.  Ohhh, a new shape of delicious…..

Glazed Lemon Zucchini Bread
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Ingredients
  • 2 cups cake flour
  • ½ tsp. salt
  • 2 tsp. baking powder
  • 2 eggs
  • ½ cup vegetable or canola oil
  • 1⅓ cups sugar
  • 2 TB lemon juice
  • ½ 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 combined. Do not overmix.
  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.