YOGURT CAKE

Yogurt Cake is quite a simple cake and easy to make. A cake for all occasions and either to leave it simple without adding a buttercream or give it a special kick with a home-made orange butter-cream...either way...this cake is just DELICIOUS to the TASTE!

Here are the ingredients: serves 4 to 6

3 eggs

1 1/2 cups sugar

1 organic orange or lemon

1/2 cup oil

1/2 cup plain yogurt

2 cups all-purpose flour

2 1/2 tsp. baking powder

pinch of salt

butter for baking pan

juice of one orange or lemon

Let's start...

Part 1:

Preheat oven to 350 F (177 C)

separate egg white and yolks. Mix egg yolks with 1 cup of sugar in a bowl and beat until pale and frothy. Grate orange or lemon zest and add to your mixture, then oil and yogurt and mix well. Do not over mix. Sift flour and baking powder into the mixture and mix until smooth.

Part 2:

Beat egg whites with a pinch of salt until they form stiff peaks. Then gentley fold into your mixture..

I used a blender to whip my egg whites...crazy...but it works...

Off it goes into the oven baking for about 25 minutes or until a tooth pick comes out clean.

Put 1 cup water in a saucepan and add the lemon or orange juice along with the rest of the sugar. Boil about 15 minutes. Cool it a little bit and make sure that it does not get hard....use a baking brush and brush your caramelize liquid on top of the cake.

You could leave it plain or spread in between the cake an orange buttercream....

Great result and Liam and my husband loved the crunchy, caramelize topping...

A REAL TREAT....DELICIOUS to the TASTE!

Orange Butter cream:

1 cup very soft butter

 orange juice from a whole orange

3/4 cup sugar

2 whole eggs

2 egg yolks

Pour the orange juice with the sugar in a saucepan and bring it slowly to a boil. Cook the syrup until it reaches 250 F

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eggs and yolks in a kitchen aid bowl and beat them until pale and frothy. Pour the syrup into the eggs in a thin stream and continuing to beat. You need to keep beating until it is cool down...then add the soft butter and beat until it becomes a cream....

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This typ of cream needs patience!

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After that ...refrigerate for about 1 hour...now it is ready for spreading...

Bon appetite...