Easy Dessert: French Yogurt Cake Recipe

Yogurt can add zing to cake recipes. It is a healthy ingredient that can update old recipes and infuse flavor into new recipes. If you’re in the mood for an exotic delicacy, try this easy dessert. This cake is so popular in France kids are taught to make it at a young age. If you are on a diet or simply trying to eat healthy, you can use low-fat yogurt instead of the sweetened variety. You’ll love the cake for its adaptability. It can be tweaked to suit certain tastes. Use this recipe from Epicurious to make it.

Easy Dessert: French Yogurt Cake Recipe

Delicious is an understatement!

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Ingredients

Vegetable oil spray (nonstick)

2 tsp of baking powder

1 cup of sugar

1½ cups of all-purpose flour

¾ tsp of kosher salt

¾ cup of Greek yogurt (whole milk)

½ cup of vegetable oil

½ tsp of vanilla extract

1 tbsp of lemon zest (finely grated)

2 large eggs

Try this French Yogurt Cake recipe

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Procedure

1. Preheat your oven to 350ᵒF.
2. Apply the nonstick vegetable oil spray on a standard loaf pan. Dust with flour and remove the extra.
3. Mix the flour, salt, and baking powder in a medium bowl.
4. In a separate bowl, rub the sugar with the lemon zest until the sugar becomes moist (using your fingers). Add the eggs, vanilla extract, Greek yogurt, and vegetable oil. Beat to blend.
5. Put the mixture in the bowl with the dry ingredients. Whip until smooth.
6. Pour the mixture into the prepared pan and even out the top.
7. Bake until the top part of the cake turns golden brown or until a tester inserted in the middle comes out clean (approximately 50-55 minutes).

You can serve with fruits

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This cake is very moist and has a texture that is somewhere between a loaf cake and a muffin. It is a simple, everyday affair and is easily adaptable. It will make you think of the cakes your doting grandmother used to make. Take a slice at tea time or serve as dessert after dinner. You’ll love it so much you’ll add it to your list of go-to easy recipes. Tasty, satisfying, and easy to make, it will steal the show at your dining table.

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