Cherry-Lemon Muffin Bread
This Cherry-Lemon Muffin Bread is full of flavour and the same great texture you find in a muffin but with the convenience of a quick bread. It is delicious for breakfast or really any time of the day.
I always use frozen sweet cherries as they are cheaper, usually better quality and way more convenient as they are already pitted. I do not thaw them first to cut down on the cherry juice mixing into the batter. You can flour the cherries first but I don’t notice the difference personally. You could also use fresh cherries and in that case I would definitely flour the cherries.
Cherry-Lemon Muffin Bread Recipe
Ingredients
1 cup white sugar
1/2 Cup Salted Butter, softened
2 eggs
1 Tbsp Vanilla Extract
1 Lemon, juice and zested (1 tbsp zest, 2 tbsp lemon juice)
1 Cup Milk
2 Cups All purpose Flour
2 tsp Baking Powder
1 Cup Frozen Sweet Cherries, chopped
For the Icing:
1 cup powdered sugar
1-2 Tablespoons milk
Directions
- Preheat your oven to 350 degrees.
- Grease a 9 inch loaf pan. (You can flour the pan as well if you like)
- Cream together the butter and sugar.
- Add the eggs,Vanilla Extract, lemon juice, zest and milk, beating well into mixture.
- Add the dry ingredients and beat until well combined
- Add cherries and mix by hand gently with a spatula being careful not to crush the berries.
- Pour batter into your loaf pan and bake for 60 minutes in the centre of the oven.
- Allow to cool in pan for 10 minutes before removing to finish cooling.
- Once cooled, mix together icing ingredients until smooth and drizzle over bread.
- Serve.
Cherry Lemon Muffin Bread
Ingredients
- 1 cup white sugar
- 1/2 Cup Salted Butter, softened
- 2 eggs
- 1 Tbsp Vanilla Extract
- 1 Lemon, 1 tbsp zest, 2 tbsp lemon juice, juice and zested
- 1 Cup Milk
- 2 Cups All purpose Flour
- 2 tsp Baking Powder
- 1 Cup Frozen Sweet Cherries, chopped
For the Icing
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 1-2 Tablespoons milk
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 350 degrees.
- Grease a 9 inch loaf pan. (You can flour the pan as well if you like)
- Cream together the butter and sugar.
- Add the eggs, Vanilla extract, lemon juice, zest and milk, beating well into mixture.
- Add the dry ingredients and beat until well combined
- Add cherries and mix by hand gently with a spatula being careful not to crush the berries.
- Pour batter into your loaf pan and bake for 60 minutes in the centre of the oven.
- Allow to cool in pan for 10 minutes before removing to finish cooling.
- Once cooled, mix together icing ingredients until smooth and drizzle over bread.
- Serve.
Nutrition Information:
Serving Size:
1 gramsAmount Per Serving: Unsaturated Fat: 0g
Just made this because I had fresh cherries to use up and a fresh lemon. It was so good. I am a huge fan of lemons, so I made as directed except used what I had left of the fresh squeezed lemon juice to make a lemon glaze (subbed for the milk). Will definitely make again.
In the list of ingredients you mention 1 tbl vanilla extract, but you don’t mention when to add it in the instructions. I assume it’s with the lemon juice?
Yes, thank you, I have updated the recipe to reflect this.
This sounds like a very tasty loaf, and 2 of my favourites cherries and lemon, yumm!!
I’m making this right now! Smells amazing! I only changed one thing because my husband is so into lemon. I swapped lemon juice for milk in the icing! I’ll let you know how it is!
I love baking for my family and friends and this is a wonderful recipe to add to what I will be baking soon.
I just made this yesterday. So good. Love it. I left a picture of mine on your fb post. I really do appreciate all the recipes you share and have many printed. This is a keeper.
How did I miss this one? I will be making this for the long weekend. And I love that you use frozen cherries. I love the PC frozen black cherries and always have them in my freezer.
I really like this cherry and lemon loaf. I have often made a lemon loaf but never with cherries. I think this recipe would be a great addition to our recipe file. Thank you so much.
I make this every saturday since you posted we love it
In your 6th step you mention adding blueberries….did you perhaps mean the chopped frozen cherries?
Yes, thanks for catching that! 🙂
This looks delicious. Would love to make it sometime. Thanks for sharing the recipe.
This looks SO GOOD! Yummed it and pinned it twice — tweeted too. Wow I want some now!
Hey, come to my Yummly party and share it? Party goes till midnight tonight.
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