Copycat Starbucks Lemon Bread. In the bowl of a mixer, combine butter and sugar and beat well to combine (mixture will be fairly dry). Add in eggs and beat until well combined. Copycat Starbucks Lemon Loaf recipe made at home.

There are some things in my life that only the name brand will do, and no amount of copycats or generics can be acceptable. Some copycat recipes call for lemon extract or lemon oil, but most people don't have that on hand, so I use fresh lemon juice and lemon zest to get a big punch of lemon flavor into this bread. The lemon icing also provides a huge hit of lemon zing to this bread which I love! You can have Copycat Starbucks Lemon Bread using 10 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Copycat Starbucks Lemon Bread

Prepare 1 pkg of yellow cake mix.
Prepare 1 of small box of non instant lemon pudding mix.
It's 1/2 cup of vegetable oil.
It's 4 of large eggs.
It's 8 ounces of sour cream.
It's 1/2 cup of milk (I use whole milk).
You need 6 tablespoons of fresh squeezed lemon juice (3-4 lemons).
It's of Icing.
You need 2 1/2 cups of confectioners sugar.
You need 3 tablespoons of freshly squeezes lemon juice.

In a large bowl, add the eggs, sugar, sour cream, oil and whisk vigorously until smooth and combined. Finally, add the lemon zest, lemon extract, and stir well to combine. There are a lot of copycat Starbucks lemon loaf recipes out there, but we wanted ours to be as close to the original as possible. So we took a peek at the list of ingredients on Starbucks' website.

Copycat Starbucks Lemon Bread instructions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit. Grease 2 loaf pans..
Combine cake mix, pudding mix,oil, eggs, sour cream, milk, and 6 tablespoons lemon juice. Beat for 2 minutes and pour into prepared pans..
Bake in preheated oven until toothpick inserted comes out clean, 40-50 minutes. Cool in pans for 20 minutes. Remove from pans and allow to cool completely..
Whisk confectioners sugar and 3 tablespoons lemon juice together until smooth. Spoon evenly over loaves. Let set 30 minutes before slicing..

We skipped the preservatives and binders like guar gum, xanthan gum, beta carotene, and soy lecithin and focused on the main ingredients in the iced loaf. In a mixing bowl, combine the flour, pudding mix, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. With a stand or hand mixer, combine the eggs, sugar, butter, vanilla, lemon extract, lemon juice, oil and yogurt. Gradually add the dry ingredients to the wet, stopping to scrape down the sides of the bowl. In a large bowl, cream the butter and sugar with a hand mixer or whisk until they're fluffy and light yellow.