Ingredients
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3 cups all-purpose flour
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1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
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1 teaspoon salt (or less, I use half)
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3 eggs
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2 1/2 cups sugar
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1 1/8 cups vegetable oil
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1 1/2 cups milk
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1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
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1 1/2 teaspoons almond extract
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1 1/2 teaspoons butter flavor extract
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1/4 cup orange juice
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3/4 cup powdered sugar
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1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
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1/2 teaspoon almond extract
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1 1/2 tablespoons poppy seeds
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 F degrees.
- Grease and flour two regular size loaf pans.
- Combine flour, baking soda, and salt in a large bowl and whisk together.
- In another bowl, combine sugar, eggs, and oil.
- Add the flour mixture alternately with the milk into the egg mixture, mixing between each addition by hand.
- Stir in poppyseeds (yes, it really is 1 1/2 Tbsp) and flavorings.
- Pour into prepared loaf pans and bake at 350 F for 1 hour, or until cake tests done (you may need another 15 minutes baking time).
- When baked, set the loaf pans on a rack (leaving loaves in pans).
- Combine glaze ingredients and pour all over the still warm loaves (if you like, poke holes in the surface with a skewer before pouring glaze so that it leaks into the bread).
- The center of the bread will be very, very moist- almost wet from the glaze.