Yoghurt Cake
The simplest Bulgarian cake — eggs, sugar, oil and a whole tub of yoghurt foamed up with bicarbonate of soda, which raises a tall, tender, slightly tangy loaf. At home the empty yoghurt pot often serves as the measuring cup.
Ingredients
Ingredients
- 10 g butter, for the tin
- 1 tbsp plain flour, for the tin
- 400 g full-fat plain yoghurt
- 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
- 4 eggs
- 200 g sugar
- 120 ml sunflower oil
- 1 tsp lemon zest, finely grated
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 350 g plain flour
- 1 tbsp icing sugar, for dusting
Nutrition (estimated)
high confidenceRecipe total: 7021 kcal · P 63.9g · C 500.1g · F 533.8g
Estimated from 11 of 11 ingredients
Approximate estimate, calculated from the ingredients.
Steps
Steps
- 1Heat the oven to 180°C. Butter a 24 cm ring tin or a 30 cm loaf tin and dust it with flour, tapping out the excess.
- 2Stir the bicarbonate of soda into the yoghurt in a large bowl and leave for 3–5 minutes, until it foams and nearly doubles — this is the cake's main lift.
- 3In another bowl, beat the eggs and sugar for 3–4 minutes until pale, then beat in the oil, lemon zest and vanilla.
- 4Fold the foamed yoghurt into the egg mixture.
- 5Sift in the flour gradually, folding just until the batter is smooth and thick.
- 6Pour into the tin and bake for 45–50 minutes, until risen, golden and a skewer comes out clean. Do not open the oven for the first 30 minutes, or the cake sinks.
- 7Leave in the tin for 10 minutes, turn out onto a rack to cool, then dust with icing sugar.
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Questions and answers
How long does Yoghurt Cake take to make?
About 65 minutes: 15 min prep and 50 min cooking.
What ingredients do you need for Yoghurt Cake?
10 ingredients: butter, plain flour, full-fat plain yoghurt, bicarbonate of soda, eggs, sugar, sunflower oil, lemon zest, vanilla extract, icing sugar.
How many servings does this Yoghurt Cake recipe make?
10 servings. The servings buttons above the ingredients rescale every amount.
How many calories are in a serving of Yoghurt Cake?
About 702 kcal, with 6.4 g protein, 50 g carbohydrate and 53.4 g fat. This is an estimate from the ingredients, not a lab analysis.
Which diets does this Yoghurt Cake recipe suit?
It is vegetarian.
What cuisine is Yoghurt Cake?
Yoghurt Cake comes from Bulgarian cuisine.
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