This Lemon Amish Friendship Bread is one of our super easy recipes. It’s a recipe with a citrusy twist with a bright burst of flavor!
If you’re a lemon lover, this recipe definitely needs to go on your “To Bake” list. For an extra lemon-y boost, mix half the lemon zest into the batter, about ½ tablespoon.
Want to dress this recipe up a little? Once the bread has cooled, drizzle with our Easy Vanilla Glaze and sprinkle the remaining lemon zest into the glaze before it sets.
Lemon Amish Friendship Bread
This Lemon Amish Friendship Bread recipe has a citrusy twist with a bright burst of flavor!
Ingredients
- 1 cup Amish Friendship Bread Starter
- 3 eggs
- 1 cup oil
- ½ cup milk
- 1 cup sugar
- 1-2 teaspoons lemon extract
- 1 ½ teaspoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- 2 cups flour
- 1 box lemon instant pudding
- Zest of one lemon or 1 tablespoon
- ½ cup sugar for dusting
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 325° F (165° C).
- In a large mixing bowl, add ingredients as listed except grated lemon zest and dusting sugar.
- Grease two large loaf pans.
- Dust the greased pans with a ½ cup sugar.
- Pour the batter evenly into loaf or cake pans and sprinkle with lemon zest and the remaining sugar on the top.
- Bake for one hour or until the bread loosens evenly from the sides and a toothpick inserted in the center of the bread comes out clean.
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I made this bread and only added 1 1/2 tsp. of lemon extract as I didn’t want it to be too strong. Next time I will add the full 2 tsp. I will also zest 2 lemons for the tops of bread instead of one. It was really good!
Is there a way to make this recipe without pudding?
How do I get a amish friendship bread starter? I would love to bake this bread. Thanks for any help you can give me.
Hi Sarah! You can actually make the starter yourself! Here is the recipe: https://www.friendshipbreadkitchen.com/amish-friendship-bread-starter/ Happy baking!
Flavoured puddings are a little more difficult to find in my area. I can only find vanilla, chocolate, butterscotch and pistachio. I really want to try lemon loaf…can I use jello instead?
Hi Renee! Because the gelatin Jello is water based (as opposed to the Jello instant pudding that is milk based), we would probably advise using vanilla pudding and adding more lemon extract to your preference of lemony-ness!
Where I live I can’t get lemon instant pudding mix, only vanilla and chocolate. Does anyone have a diy recipe so I can make my own lemon mix? I would love to try this recipe. Thanks
Hi Catherine! Just use vanilla pudding and use the full 2 teaspoons of lemon extract! You can also do a lemon drizzle to boost the flavor as well. Let us know how it goes!
I made this today and added blueberries. They taste wonderful.
I bought cook n serve instead of instant pudding. Is this a problem?
Can I use lemon juice? also can I use any part of lemon cake mix in this?
Lemon Amish Friendship Bread sounds delicious. I think I will make this but add blueberries. Yum!!!
I would make this for my husband and grandson, they like any lemon desserts.
My nephews favorite flavor of things is lemon. I made this just for him on his birthday and he LOVED I!!! Even made a lemon glaze for it. Also made some for my mom. She could not believe how good it was. Need to make more.
I so want to try this recipe. I am a lemon cake lover. LOL
I made this one but added blueberries to it and my son devoured the leftover loaves from the Farmers Market in one evening. Thankfully, there were only 2 mini loaves leftover. But he raved about how they tasted even better than the muffins you get at the bakery!
Just made this and was hoping it would be like the Starbucks lemon loaf. Its WAY better! I used lemon essential oil instead of extract and its perfect.
Hi Melanie! Woot, we love to hear that! So glad it turned out awesome — we love the lemon loaf too, and know EXACTLY the Starbucks version you’re referring to. Thanks for being in the Kitchen with us!
Can you use a bundt pan for this recipe?
Yes, Bundt pans are one of our favorite ways to make Amish Friendship Bread. We’ve found the cook time to be about the same but do a toothpick test do be sure.
I make a variation of this but use 2 packages of lemon pudding plus 2 packets of lemon koolaid powder which really boosts the lemon flavor as well as a generous amount of dried cranberries.
The recipe calls for 1 cup of sugar…then the directions say to dust the loaf pans with 1/2 a cup of sugar and then the remaining goes on top of the loafs. Do I still put 1 cup of sugar in the batter?? Or am I truly putting 1/2 cup of sugar on top of 2 loafs of bread??
1 cup of sugar is for the recipe, plus sugar to dust (up to 1/2 cup). We’ll update all the recipes to make this more specific, April. Thanks!