lemon poppyseed bread.

ingredients:

1/2 cup butter

1 cup sugar

1/4 cup poppy seed

1 tbsp. vanilla

2 eggs

1-1/2 cups flour

1 tsp. baking powder

1/2 tsp. salt

1/2 cup buttermilk

Cream butter, gradually add sugar and beat until fluffy. Add poppy seed, vanilla, eggs and mix well. Combine remaining ingredients in a seperate bowl. Start with your flour mixture and add a little and then your buttermilk. Alternate until mixed well. Bake at 350 degrees for 50 minutes. (Because i used the mini loaf pans, i started watching the bread at about 30 minutes.)
Glaze: 1-2 cups powdered sugar, 1/2 tsp. vanilla, 1/2 tbsp. butter (melted), juice and peel of one lemon. When cake is cooling poke some holes in it. When it has cooled enough pour your glaze over it. I'm big on the presentation of things. I loved this twine i found at Hobby Lobby that gave it a little bit of an Anthropologie feel.

b-a-n-a-n-a bread.

Ingredients:

1 1/2 c. sugar

1/2 c. butter

2 eggs

2 c. flour

4 Tbsp. milk

1 tsp. baking soda

3 mashed bananas

1/2 c. pecans (optional)

1 tsp. vanilla

Directions:

Mix the above ingredients together.

Bake in 9x13 pan at 325 degrees for 50 minutes. This can make 2 loafs.

Icing:

1 mashed banana

1/2 c. pecans (optional)

1 Tbsp. butter

1 box powdered sugar (of have of a bag)

Put on while bread is hot.

baked pumpkin bread.

ingredients:

• 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 1/4 teaspoons baking soda
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
• 1 cup solid pack pumpkin puree
• 1 cup packed brown sugar
• 1/2 cup buttermilk
• 1 egg
• 2 tablespoons butter, softened
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1. Preheat over to 350 degrees F.

2. Sift the flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, and nutmeg into a large bowl. Mix in the pumpkin, brown sugar, buttermilk, egg and butter until well blended. Pour into a 9x5 inch loaf pan and smooth the top.

3. Bake for 1 hour in the preheated oven, or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean.