Pink Grapefruit Poppyseed Loaf

Who doesn’t want a beautiful pink loaf of sweet bread on Valentine’s Day?

This is my grapefruit and vanilla riff on a most beloved Canadian Living Lemon Loaf Recipe from a few ages back.

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Pink Grapefruit Poppyseed Loaf

Author: Roseanne Carrara, The Lunchbox Season

Ingredients

• Loaf
• 1 1/2 c flour
• 3 tbs poppy seeds
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1/4 tsp salt
• 1/2 c milk
• 1 tbs grated pink grapefruit rind
• 2 tbs grapefruit juice
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 1/2 c butter softened
• 1 c brown sugar
• 2 large eggs
• Optional: a few drops of red/pink food colouring
• Grapefruit Soak
• 1/3 c sugar
• 2 tsp grated pink grapefruit rind [optional]
• 1/3 c fresh grapefruit juice
• 1/2 tsp vanilla
• Optional: a few drops of red/pink food colouring
• Quick Grapefruit Icing [Optional]
• 3/4 c Icing Sugar
• 1/4 tsp Vanilla
• 2 tbs Pink Grapefruit Juice
• Optional: pink gel or natural food colouring

Instructions

• Heat oven to 325.
• Prepare a loaf pan by greasing it or coating it with baking spray.
• In a small bowl, mix together flour, seeds, baking powder and salt.
• In a small cup, mix together milk, juice, vanilla, rind, and optional food colouring, and let sit to sour slightly.
• In a mixer, beat butter and sugar until fluffy.
• Beat in eggs 1 at a time.
• In alternating batches, stir flour mixture and milk mixture into butter mixture.
• Spread into the loaf pan.
• Bake for approximately 1 hour, until a skewer comes out clean.
• About 15 minutes before the end of baking time, make the grapefruit soak:
• In a small pan heat sugar, rind, juice, vanilla, and optional colouring, stirring just until the sugar is completely dissolved.
• Remove the soak from the heat.
• Right after the loaf comes out of the oven, pierce the loaf with a skewer in 12-24 places.
• Immediately spoon the syrup over the hot loaf.
• Leave the loaf in the pan and cool completely on a wire rack.
• For even more concentrated flavour, wrap loaf tightly in plastic and refrigerate for 12-24 hours before icing.
• For the icing, placing icing sugar and rind in a bowl and mix.
• Add vanilla and mix.
• Add juice by the tablespoonful until icing becomes thick but spreadable.
• Add optional food colouring if desired.
• Ice loaf.
• ENJOY!!