Amazing Almond Poppy Seed Bread

This poppy seed bread was given to us as a gift at Christmas and it is THE BEST! I have had a lot of poppy seed bread in my time, but this one takes the cake! Moist, fluffy, sweet goodness! It is CRAVEABLE! A big thank you to Suzanne Gallup for sharing her famous recipe with us! She has made it for 20+ years and it is always a hit!

Note: You need good pans! Suzanne recommended bread pans from a restaurant supply store (ie. Gygi). We did a single batch and made Poppyseed Muffins with silicone muffin cups. Delicious!

Almond Poppy Seed Bread
(Thank you Suzanne Gallup!)

Double      Single Batch
6               3 cups flour
5               2 ½ cups sugar
3               1 ½ tsp. salt
6               3 eggs
3               1 ½ cups oil
3               1 ½ cups milk
3               1 ½ tsp. baking powder
3               1 ½ T. poppy seeds
2 tsp.        1 tsp. vanilla flavoring
2 T.           1 T. almond flavoring
3 tsp.         1 ½ tsp. butter flavoring 

Mix dry ingredients and wet ingredients in separate bowls. Slowly combine wet ingredients with dry. Mix well. 

Pour into well greased and floured loaf pans. Bake at 350 for about 1 hour in large pans. About 45 minutes for smaller pans. Watch the color. When baked, the bread sometimes rises in peak form, browning at the edges and on top. It should spring back when lightly touched.

Makes 9 small (6”x3 ¼”) pans filled just under ¾ full or about 3 regular loaf pans (8 ½”x4 ½”). 

When out of the oven and still warm, pop out of pans and place on cooling rack. Place foil or wax paper under cooling rack and brush glaze on:

Double      Single Batch
½              ¼ cup orange juice
1 ½           ¾ cup sugar (must be white pure cane)
1/2 tsp.     1/4 tsp. vanilla flavoring
1 tsp.        ½ tsp. almond flavoring
1 tsp.        ½ tsp. butter flavoring

Combine all in a saucepan and whisk together and cook until sugar dissolves. Brush on top of bread when it is still warm and out of the pan to cool.