Spiced Yogurt Diamonds
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Ready In: 50 mins
Serves: 12
Ingredients
- 1 1⁄2 cups sugar
- 1⁄2 cup butter, room temperature
- 2 eggs
- 2 1⁄2 cups flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 pinch salt
- 1 cup plain yogurt
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1⁄2 cup dried currants or 1⁄2 cup raisins
- 1⁄2 teaspoon nutmeg
- 1⁄3 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1⁄4 teaspoon ground cloves
Directions
- Preheat oven to 350-degrees F.
- Spray a 9-inch square baking pan with Pam or grease pan.
- In the large bowl of an electric mixer beat sugar and butter together until fluffy.
- Beat in eggs, one at a time.
- In as separate bowl sift flour, baking soda and salt together.
- In a small bowl combine yogurt or vanilla (you could sub vanilla yogurt for the yogurt and vanilla and save one step).
- Stir yogurt mixture and dry ingredients alternatively into sugar/butter mixture.
- Pour half of the mixture into prepared pan.
- In a small cup or bowl combine currents (or raisins) and spices.
- Sprinkle current/spice mixture over batter in pan and then with a knife swirl spice mixture through batter.
- Top with remaining batter.
- Bake cake for 40 minutes or until cake tests done and springs back when touched.
- Cool and then cut into 2-inch diamonds.
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