Yogurt Cake Recipe

Moist yogurt cake.

Photo of a home baked yogurt cake
Home baked yogurt cake

This recipe yields a cake of about 8 servings.

Ingredients

  • Cake flour, 200 g (1 1/2 cups)
  • Baking powder, 7 g (1 1/2 tsp)
  • Salt, 1/8 tsp
  • Granulated sugar, 100 g (1/2 cup)
  • Egg (room temperature), 2 medium
  • Vegetable oil (canola oil), 120 ml (1/2 cup)
  • Yogurt (plain), 125 g (1/2 cup)
  • Vanilla extract, 1/2 tsp

Directions

  1. In a bowl, sift together flour, baking powder, and salt
  2. In another bowl, beat the eggs with the sugar and vanilla extract until thick and creamy
  3. Add the oil to the egg mixture and beat well
  4. Add the yogurt to the egg mixture and beat for a few seconds
  5. With a spatula, carefully fold the flour mixture into the egg mixture until just combined
  6. Pour the batter into a greased 20 cm cake tin
  7. Bake in a preheated oven at 180 C for about 50 minutes
  8. Cover with aluminum foil in case the top of the cake gets too dark
  9. A skewer inserted into the center of the cake should come out clean
  10. Carefully remove the cake from the cake tin and place on a wire rack to cool

How to serve

Serve at room temperature with strawberry jam.