At the moment I am going through a phase of baking cakes with yogurt (and not doing posts...) Do I dare to say this? This is a modest cake if you can consider a cake this way. It doesn't contain much fat and it's not so big on the sugar either. Or is this an illusion and excuse to bake?
Summer yogurt cake and full of fruit
Ingredients (in cups - a cup is 250ml glass)
2 cups of plain flour
2tsp of baking powder
2 eggs
3/4 glass of golden caster sugar or any other sugar
a cup of plain yogurt, 0% fat or full fat - any yogurt will do
25g melted butter
1 tsp vanilla essence
300-400g fruit of your choice - strawberries, blueberries, cherries, figs, raspberries, etc. / or a mix of fruit
Let's do it:
Preheat the oven to 170C (fan assisted). Prepare two bowls. Sieve flour and baking powder into one and set aside. Crack eggs into the other bowl add sugar and beat with a handheld mixer on a high speed until it's pale and creamy - around 7 minutes. Next beat in the vanilla essence. Finally gently fold in using spatula all remained ingredients - cooled butter, yogurt and flour until fully incorporated.
Grease a 23 cm spring tin form line the baking parchment. Transfer the batter into the tray and scatter the fruit evenly.
When it comes to fruit I am working on various combinations. Last week I made a figs& raspberry one.
I roughly chopped three big figs, melted a bit of butter in a frying pan added the figs, fried for a few minutes then added 2 tbsp of pomegranate molasses and cooked for a further few minutes until they were soft. When the figs cooled down I mixed them with raspberries ( one punnet) and arranged on the top - so far it is my winner. Today I scatter cherries and strawberries on the top.
Bake for 30 minutes and / or until the skewer comes clean. When cooled sprinkle icing sugar on the top.
Summer yogurt cake and full of fruit
Ingredients (in cups - a cup is 250ml glass)
2 cups of plain flour
2tsp of baking powder
2 eggs
3/4 glass of golden caster sugar or any other sugar
a cup of plain yogurt, 0% fat or full fat - any yogurt will do
25g melted butter
1 tsp vanilla essence
300-400g fruit of your choice - strawberries, blueberries, cherries, figs, raspberries, etc. / or a mix of fruit
Let's do it:
Preheat the oven to 170C (fan assisted). Prepare two bowls. Sieve flour and baking powder into one and set aside. Crack eggs into the other bowl add sugar and beat with a handheld mixer on a high speed until it's pale and creamy - around 7 minutes. Next beat in the vanilla essence. Finally gently fold in using spatula all remained ingredients - cooled butter, yogurt and flour until fully incorporated.
Grease a 23 cm spring tin form line the baking parchment. Transfer the batter into the tray and scatter the fruit evenly.
When it comes to fruit I am working on various combinations. Last week I made a figs& raspberry one.
I roughly chopped three big figs, melted a bit of butter in a frying pan added the figs, fried for a few minutes then added 2 tbsp of pomegranate molasses and cooked for a further few minutes until they were soft. When the figs cooled down I mixed them with raspberries ( one punnet) and arranged on the top - so far it is my winner. Today I scatter cherries and strawberries on the top.
Bake for 30 minutes and / or until the skewer comes clean. When cooled sprinkle icing sugar on the top.
