I love bread. I really do. I couldn’t do the whole Atkins thing. Carbs are my thing. Don’t judge.

I was in the mood for some homemade bread this past week-end and I saw a recipe in Self magazine for a Raspberry-Lemon-Yogurt Bread. It sounded healthy-ish so I decided to try it.

If you’ve been following this blog for awhile, you may know that I’m kind of a disaster in the kitchen when it comes to meals….the husband is the cook in this house. I, however, can bake up a storm….look at this baked to perfection bread…

Ingredients:

2 cups all-purpose flour
2/3 cup plus 1 tbsp. sugar, divided
1 tsp baking powder
1tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1 cup nonfat lemon yogurt
2 large eggs, lightly beaten
4 tbsp. unsalted butter, melted and slightly cooled
grated zest of 1 lemon
1 tsp vanilla extract
2 cups fresh raspberries

How do you bake it on up?

Heat oven to 350 degrees.
Coat a 1 lb loaf pan with cooking spray.
Combine flour, 2/3 cup sugar, baking powder, baking soda, and salt in a bowl.
Combine yogurt, eggs, butter, zest, and vanilla in a second bowl.
Toss raspberries with remaining 1 tbsp. sugar in a third bowl…so many dishes.
Fold yogurt mixture into dry mixture; stir to combine completely.
Gently fold in raspberries.
Scrape batter evenly into loaf pan.
Bake until top is golden and springs back when you gently touch it (~65 minutes)
Enjoy

Our Review/Changes We Would Make:

The lemon bread component was really good. Good flavor and texture.
We would cut the raspberries up. We folded them in whole and they just turned to mush in the bread. I think it would be better with blueberries. Nate hates blueberries so he disagrees.
I used my new Pampered Chef mini loaf pan (darn co-workers and their parties). I was pleased at how well the stoneware baked the bread. Fancy.
- This recipe made 3 loaves in this pan. Hopefully the other two freeze well. The ability to make little loaves was the main reason I purchased this pan. We try to eat fairly healthy (as in no sugary stuff) during the week and then we eat whatever we want on the week-ends. My co-workers will probably hate this pan because whatever “sweet stuff” we have left over from the week-end goes into work. Poor co-workers!