Lemon quick bread with the delicious addition of toasted coconut and citrus honey butter – perfect for spring!
I LOVE making quick breads…..can you guess why? You got it! Because they’re QUICK! And easy. And hard to mess up. Which are all key when you’re a mom! My baking is typically interrupted about 18 times per recipe….with crying kids or homework help requests or diaper changes or phone calls….so I need “sturdy” recipes that can hold up to a lot of nonsense! Our go-to quick bread is the old stand-by, banana bread, but I thought it would be fun to try something new and different for spring!
We are a bit lemon obsessed (which makes sense with a name like Lemon Tree Dwelling, right??) and we also have a definite thing for coconut, which we discovered last year around this time when we made coconut macaroons for the first time. Putting the two together in this bread was the BEST decision EVER….and topping it with citrus honey butter was a close second!
If you’ve never had flavored honey butter, you MUST try it! I’m not a huge butter fan, but I honestly can’t pass this stuff up!! To be fair, the bread is delicious without it….but once you try it, you’ll never go back. Kinda like once you try this Lemon-Coconut Quick Bread, it will be a while before you can go back to your old stand-by. The good news is it’s quick enough, easy enough, and hard enough to mess up that you won’t be complaining!!
Lemon Coconut Quick Bread with Citrus Honey Butter
Ingredients
Bread
- 1 cup lightly packed sweetened coconut
- 3 cups all purpose flour
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 3/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 1/2 cups milk
- 1 egg
- 3/4 teaspoon lemon extract
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/4 teaspoon almond extract
- zest of 1 lemon
Butter
- 1/2 stick butter softened
- 1 Tablespoon honey
- 1/2 teaspoon lemon juice
- 1/2 teaspoon ime juice
- zest of 1/2 lemon and 1/2 lime
Instructions
Bread
- Spread coconut on a baking sheet and toast at 350 degrees until golden brown (7-10 min.)
- In a medium bowl, mix together flour, sugar, baking powder and salt. Set aside.
- Whisk together milk, egg, extracts and lemon zest in a bowl until blended.
- Stir in the coconut and flour mixture, stiring just until moistened.
- Spoon batter into a greased 5×9 inch loaf pan.
- Bake at 350 degrees for 55-60 minutes or until wooden toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.
- Cool 10 minutes in pan, then invert onto wire rack to cool completely.
- *Recipe adapted from An Occasion to Gather
Butter
- Combine all ingredients in small bowl and mix until smooth.
Nutrition
Wow!!!!! Love quick breads too and these flavors are perfect for me so I think I’ll try it this weekend!!!!!!! 🙂
Thank, Jess!! It’s seriously the PERFECT bread for spring….a nice change from our usual banana bread and just as easy!! Happy Easter, my friend!
I saw this on G+ this morning and can’t stop thinking about it!! My mom adores lemon… I think this just made our Easter Table!!
Awwww thanks, Kim! This bread is seriously so easy and delicious….and be sure to make the butter, too! Happy Easter! Hope it’s a good one 🙂
I just posted a key lime bread similar to this a few weeks ago! This looks so delicious with lemon and that butter — amazing, Cathy! I love to try this one out. 🙂
Thanks, Marcie! I’ve seen a few different similar versions of this floating around….such a delicious combination with the citrus and coconut, so I guess it makes sense! 🙂
Looks magical! 😉 I thought I wasn’t a fan of coconut, but I ADORE IT!!! I’d probably use coconut flour in this recipe even 🙂
I love quick breads and am such a sucker for anything with coconut and lemon so this definitely gets my vote. The citrus honey butter sounds wonderful too – perfect spring flavors here 🙂
There is just something about lemons in spring, I can’t get enough. That plus the fact that it is quick has me sold. Making this. Pinned. Thanks
This just sounds so wonderful! Refreshingly summery and oh-so-satisfying! So very pretty, too – would be just lovely for a Mother’s Day brunch, a baby or wedding shower, or a ladies’ tea! Yum!
Oh my those photo’s and the ingredients sound so yummy and refreshing this time of year…. Delish!! Thanks so much for your awesomeness!! 🙂
“hugs” Crystelle
Crystelle Boutique
Can’t wait to make this bread…!
Is there really no butter or oil in this bread? Looks yummy!
Beautiful! I think I must pin pretty much every post you do 😉 Thanks for the recipes!
Would love to know the consistency of the mixture, mine was very stiff which made the bread quite dense and a bit hard when baked? Any tips appreciated as it tasted nice with the butter
It should be the consistency of a typical bread you would make, a but sticky and thicker, but if it seemed too thick, use less flour.