Gluten-Free Lemon Blueberry Bread

If you’ve followed me a while, you know that we loooove our Gluten-Free Blueberry Muffins and Gluten-Free Lemon Blueberry Muffins.

They have been favorite muffins for years — always in the rotation, no matter what season we’re in.

And we’ve made them several times in recent weeks while sheltering at home.

You’ve been making them too! And I’ve received several requests to make it as a quick-bread instead of as muffins…. so we did!

I made the quick bread using the Lemon Blueberry recipe because we were craving the fresh bright flavor that comes with the hint of lemon, but this bread recipe should work fine without the lemon as well….  (just skip the lemon juice and lemon zest, and add back in 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon)

The bread is light and fluffy, full of juicy blueberries, and has a hint of lemon that is so fresh tasting!

And the recipe is super simple.

It’s made with real, whole food ingredients — mostly pantry staples — and is adaptable to tastes or dietary needs.

All you need to make them is gluten-free all purpose flour (we use GF Jules– Affiliate link), baking powder, salt, cane sugar or coconut sugar, butter or dairy-free butter, plain yogurt or dairy-free yogurt, eggs, vanilla extract, lemon juice, lemon zest, fresh blueberries and turbinado sugar for sprinkling.

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Back to the bread…

This recipe is very adaptable to tastes or dietary needs.

You can use dairy-free butter sticks, ghee and regular butter.  You can use cane sugar or coconut sugar. And you can use milk based and almond milk yogurt.  Each time the recipe works.

This one was mad with dairy-free butter, cane sugar and almond milk yogurt.

No matter how you make it, it comes together quickly!

All you do is mix the flour, baking powder and salt in a small bowl.  Mix the sugar, melted butter, yogurt, sugar, lemon juice, lemon zest and vanilla in a large mixing bowl.  Then add the flour to the mixed “wet” ingredients. Stir in the blueberries and you’re done!

You can mix by hand or with a hand mixer but as you may know by now, we love our Kitchen Aid stand mixer  (Amazon affiliate link) and use it for everything, including this muffins.

And one important tip before baking for best texture and flavor: After mixing the batter together, sure to “rest” the batter for 20-25 minutes prior to spooning it into the loaf pan.

I’m not a chemist but as I understand it, resting the batter before baking hydrates the flour and give the muffins a softer texture. There is a sweet spot though and you don’t want to let the batter rest for more than 30 minutes because then the bread will be dense.

Remember to sprinkle with  Turbino Sugar before baking! I have to admit I sometimes forget this step but if you can remember, that extra sprinkle of sugar gives the muffins a real bakery feel.

And one bonus, I almost forgot to share!

The recipe makes enough batter for 1 large loaf and 1 mini loaf!

They bake at the same time, though the mini loaf bakes quicker, which is good because you can slice into quicker!

The house will smell amazing and when you finally slice into the bread, you’ll be so excited!

The bread is soft and fluffy and burst with juicy blueberries!

Want a slice?

I hope you love this Blueberry Bread as much as we do!

Scroll down to see the recipe and leave a comment if you try.