Lemon and Blueberry Cream Cheese Bread

This lemon and blueberry cream cheese bread has the most refreshing flavors. The cream cheese gives it a moist and dense texture!

Whenever I think of a sweet loaf bread to make, I always think of banana nut bread. I never broaden my horizons. This lemon and blueberry cream cheese bread is one for the books!

I happened to have an abundance of lemons. They were on sale at the market and I couldn’t resist. I also had some blueberries that were about to go bad.

The flavor combination of blueberry and fresh lemon is one of the best. Especially come spring and summer time. Blueberry lemonade, blueberry citrus cheesecake, salad with fresh blueberries and a lemon vinaigrette…the list goes on and on.

It is insane how much moisture and density cream cheese can add to a recipe. I’m thinking the amount of eggs have something to do with the density of this bread, but the cream cheese has alot to do with the moisture.

If you can notice…almost half of my loaf is missing. I had to of course try a slice to make sure it was blog worthy. But the true culprit was my husband. I knew I should have left a note next to the loaf saying “DO NOT EAT”.

Don’t get me wrong, he is my number one taste tester, and tries every single thing I bake and cook.

Before I called it a night, I let the bread cool down a bit, put some tin foil on top and headed upstairs for some shut eye. In the back of my mind, I knew there was an entire loaf of delicious lemon and blueberry cream cheese bread waiting for its photoshoot in the morning.

Well, I was wrong. I woke up, went downstairs and had my very strong coffee. When I went over to the wrapped up loaf but noticed a few crumbs around the pan…hmmmm.

So, I took the tin foil off, to my surprise…almost half of the loaf was missing!

…my husband. I looked at him, and he said “It was amazing!”.

Thank god I still had a decent amount to photograph! I must say myself, this bread is very delicious, very dense, very flavorful, and very dangerous!

Enjoy!!

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Lemon and Blueberry Cream Cheese Bread

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Servings: 1 loaves

Ingredients Method

Ingredients

  

• 1/2 Cup Unsalted Butter, Softened
• 8 OZ. Cream Cheese, softened
• 1 1/2 Cups Sugar
• 1 TSP Vanilla Extract
• 4 Large Eggs
• 2 Cups All Purpose Flour
• 1 1/2 TSP Baking Powder
• 1/2 TSP Salt
• 1-2 Cups Fresh Blueberries Depending on the amount of blueberries you want in your bread. I used 2 cups and I think it was a little too much. Personal preference!
• 1 Lemon, Juiced
• 1/2 TSP Lemon Zest

Method

 

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
2. Cream together butter and sugar.
3. Add your eggs and mix until combined.
4. Add cream cheese. Mix until well combined.
5. Add your flour, salt, baking powder, vanilla extract, lemon juice and lemon zest. Mix well.
6. Carefully fold in blueberries using a spoon.
7. Spray your loaf pan/pans with non stick spray.
8. You can either use two loaf pans or one. I used one 9x5 loaf pan.
9. Pour batter in pan/pans.
10. If you are using one pan, bake for 90 minutes (1 1/2 hours) OR if you are using two loaf pans, bake for 60 minutes (1 hour).
11. Let cool completely until cutting it.
12. Enjoy!