Easy Yogurt Cake Recipe with Perfect Crumb
By Isabella Quinn
Prep
15 min
Cook
75 min
Total
90 min
Servings
4
This easy Yogurt Cake recipe yields moist and tender cakes with a tangy yogurt taste. Yogurt Cake is a good option for breakfast or brunch and a tasty tea-time snack. Yogurt Cake melts in your mouth and is another good recipe to add to your collection. Possible variations to this recipe include adding chocolate chips to the batter and dusting the cake with powdered sugar.
Ingredients
- •120 g unsalted butter (at room temperature)
- •180 g granulated sugar
- •2 eggs
- •220 g greek yogurt (unsweetened)
- •1 tsp vanilla extract
- •1 tsp salt
- •1 tsp baking powder
- •230 g all-purpose flour
- •2 tbsp icing sugar (for dusting)
- •unsalted butter (cold, for groove (optional))
Instructions
- 1
Beat the butter with the sugar until it becomes light in colour.
- 2
Add the eggs and beat again until fully incorporated and airy.
- 3
Add the yogurt and vanilla extract and mix; it will look curdled.
- 4
Add the flour, salt, and baking powder, mixing with a spatula.
- 5
Prepare a loaf pan with baking paper, securing it with a bit of oil.
- 6
Place the batter in the prepared pan and level it with a spatula.
- 7
For the groove, cut the cold butter into thin strips, place it along the center, and press gently.
- 8
Bake the cake in a preheated oven at 180°C / 350°F for 1h15min or until a skewer comes out clean.
- 9
At the 30min-45min mark, check if the top is golden; if so, cover with tin foil.
- 10
Poke the cake to check if it's ready, ensuring to go beyond the center.
- 11
Once baked, remove the cake from the oven and cool on a wire rack.
- 12
When cool, lift the cake from the pan using the baking paper and dust with icing sugar.
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