French Yogurt-Cake

Elodie's Note:

In France, we make a cake, called "Gâteau au yaourt / Yogurt cake" very easy, because you just need the container to weigh all ingredients. You can use the flavor you want, or add fruits or chocolate chips. We usually bake this cake in a regular pan, but i like to do it into cupcakes tins. You can use your blender to make the dough ! Here in France, a yogurt container is equal to 1/2 cup, but you can adapt to your own container! you can double the recipe, or more ! it's very easy =) (i like to do this with apple sauce instead of yogurt) [3 march 2007 visiting a friend in the us, i made this cake using low fat dannon vanilla yogurt, brown sugar, bananas and frozen strawberries ! very good!]

• Total Time: 1 hrs 5 mins
• Prep Time: 15 mins
• Cook Time: 50 mins

Ingredients:

Servings: 8

• ½ cup yogurt (don't forget to keep the container)
• ¼ cup oil
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 ½ cups plain flour
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 2 eggs
• 1 dash salt
• vanilla or coffee or orange blossom water or rum or almonds or chocolate chips
• coconut or fruit

Directions:

1. Preheat oven 300°F.
2. Mix yogurt and sugar.
3. Add the 3 containers of flour, one by one and the salt, the dough will be hard.
4. Add the eggs, the oil and the flavor.
5. Finish with the baking powder.
6. Mix well.
7. Pour into a greased and floured cake pan (i use a old charlotte pan).
8. Bake for 50 minutes.

Reviews

[Sartreana]

Excellent recipe, can't go wrong! I added lemon zest, just a squeeze of lemon juice and chopped strawberries at the last minute. I also sprinkled sugar on top before baking which turned out really nice... and I used vanilla flavored yogurt. Baked at the temperature suggested, but then turn it a bit higher at the end for the sugar on top. I used a muffin tray and this recipe made 10 muffins.

[Mai Anh]

This is a very simple, yet delicious cake. I used plain yoghurt, rum, cinnamon and vanilla to flavour it. Sometimes, I will split the cake in half and spread fruit preserves between each piece.

[Kasha]

Easy, good, cheap. The one cake everyone in Frabnce makes, even the kids.