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Coffee Cake Friday: Orange and Poppy Seed Quick Bread

November 5, 2009 by Jeanne


This week’s coffee cake is actually a small loaf–like a tea cake. Yes, I know it’s for Coffee Cake Friday, but you can eat all of these cakes with the beverage of your choice. I decided to include a smaller type of cake for those times when you want a little something but don’t need something as big as a bundt cake. I’ve used this recipe over the years as my quick recipe when I have guests coming over shortly and I’ve not prepared anything. I usually have the ingredients on hand and they come together easily. It’s got a light, delicate crumb, and the poppy seeds add a bit of a nice crunch.

Interestingly enough, I adapted this recipe from a free card I picked up at Whole Foods. I love gathering recipes from local stores. And the origin of this recipe illustrates my tendency to gather recipes from many different sources. If you have a Whole Foods in your area, you should check in with them to see if they have free recipes. Here in Seattle, they always have several out in their bulletin board area, usually in keeping with the season of the year. I think I got this one around Christmas. I’ve also recently discovered that they have many recipes on their web site.

One thing that’s nice about this bread is that you can either eat it as is, or you can slice it, toast it, and add butter and/or jam for an even more decadent snack.

Orange and Poppy Seed Quick Bread
-adapted from one from Whole Foods

Special Equipment Needed
-hand mixer is nice for mixing the batter
-6 cup loaf pan (8 1/2″ x 4 1/2″ x 2 1/2″)

Ingredients
1 1/2 cups Jeanne’s Gluten-Free All-Purpose Flour
1 1/4 tsp double-acting aluminum-free baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
1/4 cup milk
1/3 cup orange juice (I like to use freshly-squeezed)
Zest of one orange, finely grated
6 tablespoon butter, softened
2/3 cup sugar
2 large or extra-large eggs, room temp
3 tablespoons poppy seeds
extra butter and tapioca flour for pan

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F
-butter and flour pan using tapioca flour
-in a small bowl, mix together flour, baking powder, and salt
-in another small bowl, whisk together orange juice, zest, and milk
-in a large bowl, beat butter with hand mixer until fluffy
-add sugar and beat more
-add eggs, one at a time, beat after each addition
-alternately add flour mixture and milk mixture to butter mixture, starting and ending with flour mixture
-fold in poppy seeds
-pour batter into prepared pan–smoothing top
-thump pan on the counter to release any trapped air bubbles
-bake at 350 degrees for about 45 minutes–until a tester comes out clean
-cool in pan for 10 minutes before turning out onto rack to complete cooling

Enjoy!

Note:  If you use a different gluten-free flour mix, alter the amount of or eliminate the xanthan gum or use a different gluten-replacer, use dairy-free or egg-free substitutes, or change any other ingredients in this recipe, your results may not match my results.

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Comments

  1. Michelle

    January 27, 2013 at 9:45 am

    My neighbor just gave me a big bag of gorgeous navels from his tree, so this was a perfect use! I had a tiny bit of juice left over, so mixed it with some powdered sugar and glazed half of the loaf, just to see. Great recipe! He also gave me some meyer lemons, so may try it with them next… Thanks!

    • Jeanne

      January 27, 2013 at 2:48 pm

      Michelle: Yay! Sounds delish! And I can’t wait to hear about your Meyer lemon experiments.

      • Michelle

        January 27, 2013 at 3:05 pm

        It has such a soft, delicate crumb- had to put the remaining slices in the freezer to hide it from myself! I am definitely going to try it with the lemons.

        • Jeanne

          January 27, 2013 at 7:24 pm

          Michelle: Yay!

  2. Lee

    June 26, 2012 at 12:28 pm

    I made this with lemon instead of orange and it seemed to work beautifully, until I put it on the rack to cool. Then it fell from the loaf size to 2 or 3 inches! It still tasted great, but this seems to happen whenever I make bread – any suggestions?
    I love all of your recipes by the way – and so does my family – Thanks!

    • admin

      June 27, 2012 at 9:13 am

      Lee: Hm. It sounds like this rose too high and then deflated a bit. With a yeasted bread, I would recommend that you don’t let it rise above the top of the pan, but that isn’t the case here. Are you baking at high altitude?

      • Lee

        June 27, 2012 at 9:36 am

        Nope I’m in the midwest, not high altitude. I ‘m not sure what happens. With this bread everything looked great, but then it deflated. With yeast bread I watch to make sure it doesn’t rise too much, but it always deflates. Thankfully both breads still taste wonderful, just hoping to figure this out. 🙂

        • admin

          June 27, 2012 at 9:42 am

          Lee: OK. I would recommend reducing the baking powder and see if that works. Reduce it to 1 tsp and see if that helps.

  3. elizabeth

    January 3, 2012 at 9:06 am

    what is the difference between sweet rice flour and rice flour? thanks

    • Priscilla Mendenhall

      October 23, 2014 at 3:10 pm

      sweet rice is a particular kind of rice, commonly called glutinous rice though it does not contain glutin! there are a number of varieties – short and long grained. sweet rice is used in sushi, in mocha, in Chinese dim sum, in northeast Thailand and Laos a s a staple rice.

  4. Megan

    March 14, 2011 at 6:56 pm

    pudding makes it VERY moist.. I used to do it when i could eat gluten.. so im wondering if it would work the same.

    • admin

      March 14, 2011 at 8:56 pm

      Megan: Oh, got it. This cake doesn’t need extra moistness, but you can always try it and see what happens!

  5. Megan

    March 11, 2011 at 7:51 pm

    how do you think this recipe would taste with lemon juice instead of orange.. and a package of instant lemon pudding?

    • admin

      March 12, 2011 at 3:28 pm

      Megan: lemon juice would be fine–it would just be a lemon cake. Not sure about the instant pudding. Do you mean putting pudding in the middle of the cake or something?

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