The best yoghurt and almond cake
The best yoghurt and almond cake
Hello my foodies,
You all know my love for yoghurt cake, a simple cake to make with only one unit of measure the yoghurt pot, an easy to adapt recipe. It's THE BEST for me.
For a while, I wanted to make a cake with an almond yoghurt base because at home, we love almonds too much.
So yesterday I went for it, frankly I made one of my best cakes, it was so good, soft, light and not very sweet.
Everybody loved it at home, it was just incredible made with simple ingredients and a quick recipe to make, perfect for your kids, they will love it.
I made my own almond powder that I mixed with my robot, I left little pieces of almond that gives a touch of crunch when you taste this cake, it's just beautiful.
I placed apple slices on top of my cake which gives a whole new dimension to the cake and adds a fruity touch. Test it and you'll tell me more about it.
I'm so proud of this cake.
Advantages:
- Easy to make, we just need the yoghurt pot to measure our ingredients, no need for a scale.
- Ultra soft cake, this soft side of the cake is due to the presence of yoghurt in the recipe but also almond powder, which unlike flour is more moist.
- Very little sugar, very light in the mouth.
- Perfect for the kids, they'll love it.
- Suitable for all occasions, for snacks, breakfast....
Tricks:
- Mix with a spatula (plastic spatula with a flat end).
- Stir in almond powder last.
- Eggs are important in this recipe, it serves to have a cake that holds better and more compact.
Tips for having a soft cake with a yoghurt base:
- Yoghurt, in yoghurt cake, you often hear plain yoghurt. For a super soft cake, choose instead fromage blanc, some Greek yoghurts and/or add a tablespoon of fresh cream. The higher fat content will make the cake wetter and therefore more airy.
- Corn starch is known to lighten cakes and thus bring them softness. Your choice: you can make half flour, half starch or total starch if you want to obtain an gluten-free cake for example.
- Baking soda is a little miracle product in the kitchen. And it's our secret for super soft cookiesso we use it for our cakes, too. Add a quarter teaspoon with half a bag of baking powder and you're done!
- White chocolate, if olive oil makes your cake extra tender, try also the white chocolate melted. You will thus obtain a soft aspect which remains quite compact.
- The gentle mixing avoids exciting the gluten by stirring like a little crazy. Put all the ingredients except the flour and mix in less than 6 to 8 seconds. Add the flour, baking powder and baking soda and stir very, very quickly. Of course you don't leave any lumps in your dough either...
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Apple compote, if you have chosen to flavour your yoghurt cake with apples, go for compote! It will be much lighter to make your cake swell!
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At the cooling stage, as soon as you take the cake out of the oven, cover it quickly with some aluminium foil. This will create a kind of oven and your cake will be more moist so it will be softer.
RECIPE YOGHURT CAKE WITH ALMOND POWDER
I use my 125gr yoghurt pot as a unit of measure.
INGREDIENTS:
For 25 cm moulds
- 1 Plain yoghurt 125 gr
- 3 Flour jars
- 1 Sugar jar
- 50 gr almond powder
- 1/2 Sunflower oil jar
- 2 Eggs
- 1 bag Vanilla sugar 8 gr
- Baking Yeast 11 gr
- 1pinch Salt
- half an apple for decoration
PREPARATION STEPS
- Preheat the oven to 180 °C.
- Pour the yoghurt into a bowl and keep the jar for measuring the other ingredients.
- Add the sugar, flour, oil, salt, eggs, baking powder and vanilla sugar and mix with a maryse (a plastic spatula with a flat end).
- Add the almond powder at the end.
- Mix with the maryse until homogeneous.
- Butter a cake tin and pour the batter into it.
- Cut half of the apple into strips and spread over the top of the dough.
- Bake for 30 to 40 minutes. Watch the baking by pushing the tip of a knife into the middle of the cake: if it comes out clean, it's done!
I hope you like it. Now it's up to you.
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