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Marwa El Odessi - Canada

French Yogurt Cake

French Cuisine

French Yogurt Cake is one of my favorites. It's lovely and easy cake. You can have it with light custard ('creme anglaise'). It's moist, dense and with just a zest of lemon running through it. It is both delicious and healthy and every one will love it.

SPECIFICATIONS

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INGREDIENTS

• 1 cup all purpose flour
• 1/2 cup ground almonds (or if you have no almonds, use another 1/2 flour)
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• pinch salt
• 1 cup sugar
• zest of 1 lemon
• 1/2 cup plain yogurt
• 3 large eggs
• 1/4 t vanilla
• 1/2 cup light-flavored oil

PREPARATION

1. Preheat the oven to 350 and lightly grease your baking pan (I have used a small loaf pan or a 9" springform pan).
2. Mix together the flour, ground almonds (if using), baking powder and nuts.
3. In a medium bowl, rub the sugar together with the zest (this will perfume the sugar with lemonyness). Whisk the yogurt, eggs and vanilla into the sugar. Whisk the flour mixture in until just blended. Fold in the oil with a rubber spatula.
4. Scrape the batter into your pan. Depending on your pan, it will take from 35-45 minutes (springform pan) to 50-55 minutes (loaf pan). The cake will pull from the sides of the pan and a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake will come out with only one or two crumbs clinging to it.
5. Let the cake cool on a rack for 5 minutes, then remove it from the pan to continuing cooling.