Gluten Free Lemon Poppy Seed Loaf

Cook Time: 45 Minutes

What you need

  • 225g/8oz Odlums Gluten Free Tritamyl Self Raising Flour
  • 125g/4oz Butter or Margarine
  • 125g/4oz Shamrock Golden Caster Sugar
  • 3 Eggs
  • 2 Tablespoons Milk
  • 1 Teaspoon Goodall’s Vanilla Essence
  • 2 Tablespoons Poppy Seeds
  • Grated Rind of Lemon

For Glaze

  • 175g/6oz Icing Sugar
  • Juice of Lemon

Recipe Steps

  1. Preheat oven to 170�C/325�F/Gas 3. Grease and base line a 900g/2lb Loaf tin.
  2. Cream butter/margarine and sugar together in a bowl. Beat in the eggs, one at a time, and next beat in the milk with vanilla essence.
  3. Gently stir in the flour until completely combined and finally stir in the poppy seeds and lemon rind.
  4. Transfer to the prepared tin and bake for about 45 minutes until golden brown and a knife inserted into the cake comes out clean.
  5. While cake is baking prepare the glaze by heating the sugar and lemon juice over a low heat stirring occasionally until sugar has dissolved.
  6. When cake is baked allow it to stay in the tin to ��set” for 10 minutes then pierce top of cake with a fork or toothpick and pour over the glaze.
  7. When completely cold store in an airtight container.

 

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