This Healthier Lemon Blueberry Bread is moist, delicious, and bursting with wonderful flavor! It is studded with juicy blueberries and topped with a simple lemon drizzle.
Gather all Ingredients
To get started, you’ll need the following ingredients:
- Dry ingredients: white whole wheat flour, salt, and baking powder. My favorite white whole wheat flour is the King Arthur, 100% Organic White Whole Wheat Flour.
- Wet ingredients: maple syrup, light olive oil, vanilla extract, large eggs, sour cream, lemon juice, and lemon zest.
- Blueberries
- Glaze (optional): powdered sugar, freshly squeezed lemon juice, and lemon zest
How to make Healthier Lemon Blueberry Bread
- Prepare and preheat
Preheat the oven to 325 F and line a 8×4 loaf pan with parchment paper. Set aside. In a small bowl, toss the blueberries with 1 teaspoon of flour. Set aside.
- Mix bread ingredients
In a large bowl, combine the oil, eggs, vanilla, maple syrup, sour cream, lemon juice, and lemon zest and beat together with a hand-held blender on medium speed for 2-3 minutes. Then, in another bowl, combine salt, baking powder, and flour. Add flour mixture to the batter 1/3 at a time, letting the flour incorporate with each addition and continue mixing just until well combined. Fold blueberries into batter.
- Bake
Pour batter into prepared pan. Bake until golden brown and a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, about 80 minutes. Remove from the oven. When the bread has sat for about 15 minutes, transfer to a cooling rack to cool completely.
- Glaze
Mix together lemon juice, lemon zest and powdered sugar. If needed, add more lemon juice or powdered sugar until you reach the desired consistency. Pour glaze over bread.
Healthier Lemon Blueberry Bread: Frequently Asked Questions
Absolutely! Pour the batter into muffin tins and adjust the baking time accordingly. Start checking after around 18-20 minutes.
Store the cooled bread in an airtight container at room temperature for up to 2 days. For longer storage, refrigerate for up to a week or freeze for several months.
Toss the blueberries in a bit of flour before folding them into the batter. This prevents them from sinking to the bottom during baking.
Adding ingredients like sour cream or yogurt to the batter can enhance moisture. Also, don’t over mix the batter, and be sure not to over bake the bread.
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Healthier Lemon Blueberry Bread
Ingredients
- ¾ cup maple syrup
- ¾ cup light olive oil
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 3 large eggs (room temperature)
- 1 cup sour cream (room temperature)
- ¼ cup fresh lemon juice (room temperature)
- Zest of one lemon
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 2 ½ cups white whole wheat flour
- 1 ½ cups blueberries
- 1 teaspoon white whole wheat flour (for blueberries)
Glaze (optional):
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 2 tablespoons freshly lemon juice (or to reach desired consistency)
- ½ teaspoon lemon zest
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 325 F and line a 8×4 loaf pan with parchment paper. Set aside.
- In a small bowl, toss the blueberries with 1 teaspoon of flour. Set aside.
- In a large bowl, combine the oil, eggs, vanilla, maple syrup, sour cream, lemon juice, and lemon zest and beat together with a hand-held blender on medium speed for 2-3 minutes.
- Then, in another bowl, combine salt, baking powder, and flour. Add flour mixture to the batter 1/3 at a time, letting the flour incorporate with each addition and continue mixing just until well combined. Fold blueberries into batter.
- Pour batter into prepared pan. Bake until golden brown and a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, about 70 – 80 minutes. Remove from the oven. When the bread has sat for about 15 minutes, transfer to a cooling rack to cool completely.
Glaze:
- Mix together lemon juice, lemon zest and powdered sugar. If needed, add more lemon juice or powdered sugar until you reach the desired consistency. Pour glaze over bread.
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