Hi!
How did you spend Christmas? I hope you all had a cozy time together with your
loved ones. I’ve spent Christmas together with two girlfriends. We met in the
evening, ate, chatted and watched a movie. So we spent a cozy evening. Each of
us had cooked/ baked something so neither of us had to spend the whole day in
the kitchen. I decided to bake a delicious lemon yogurt cake, which I made a
bit festive.
The idea is not mine...I'm not so creative. I have seen this idea 2 years ago (I think) on the internet. And this year I decided to try it out. I must confess, I was a bit afraid that something will go wrong...to be more specific I thought that it will look great, but that the cake is burnt. But everything worked fine.
For 2 cakes you need 2x:
135
g butter, room temperature
35
g sugar
100
ml yogurt
1
tbsp vanilla sugar
2
eggs
juice
and zest from 1 lemon
200
g flour
1
tsp backing powder
food
coloring
This is how we proceed:
Preheat
oven to 175°C degrees.
Mix
butter, sugar and vanilla sugar for 5 minutes.
Stir in eggs one by one.
Add yogurt, lemon juice and zest and mix.
Mix flour and baking powder and then stir in 2 times.
Add food coloring and mix everything well. Pour dough into a buttered and floured loaf pan and bake for 30-40 minutes or until the cake passes the toothpick test.
Let cake cool slightly and remove from the mold.
In the meantime, bake a 2nd cake. Proceed just as above but do not use food coloring.
When the first cake has cooled down, cut into 5 cm thick slices and cut out with a cookie cutter, the desired shape.
Add a little bit of the light dough (enough so that the bottom is covered) into the loaf pan. Then line up the shapes one after the other into the loaf pan.
Spread the rest of the batter and bake for 40 minutes at the same temperature.
Let the cake cool for 15 minutes in the form, remove from the pan and allow to cool completely on a wire rack. Sprinkle with powdered sugar, cut and look at the surprised faces of your guests 😁
You can also use a different dough, e.g. the one for the marble cake. Is also a nice idea for Valentine's Day or for any occasion. Have you ever baked such a cake.
PS: don’t throw away the cake scrapings…you can bake with them tasty cake-pops.
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