French Yogurt Cake ~ Gâteau au Yaourt

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If I tell you this is the easiest cake I have baked, would you agree? I guess you have to try it to agree to me on this! 🙂

The French Yogurt Cake is the first basic cake that is taught in a French household. It is said that this cake is made by using a 125 ml can of yogurt and everything is measured in it, ie. 1 measure of yogurt, 3 measures of flour, 2 measures of sugar and 1 measure of oil, thereby making it easy to remember the proportions. Even though I got the idea of this cake from David Lebovitz’s book “The Sweet Life in Paris“, I referred to a lot of posts on Google, especially on this one and totally loved how homely this bake is.

Especially when you have guests coming in unannounced or if you want a no-nonsense simple tea cake, then I am kind of sure that this is it! 🙂 By the way, I highly recommend this book if you love French delicacies. I have already folded almost the whole book to try and I have no clue when I am going to try them all. The recipes are so simple and easy to follow, and the book has some interesting anecdotes and happenings before each recipe. Hopefully I will do a detailed review sometime later – please don’t ask me when. 😉

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French Yogurt Cake ~ Gâteau au Yaourt

Course Cakes

Cuisine French

Prep Time 5 minutes minutes

Cook Time 45 minutes minutes

Total Time 50 minutes minutes

Servings 6

Author Rafeeda

Ingredients

• 1 1/2 cup all purpose flour
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1 1/2 tsp baking powder
• 1 tsp vanilla powder
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1/2 cup yogurt
• 3 small eggs 2 large eggs
• 1/2 cup sunflower oil any odorless oil
• FOR GLAZE:
• 3 tbsp pineapple jam
• 1 tbsp water

Instructions

• Preheat oven to 180 degrees. Grease a small loaf pan and set aside
• Whisk the dry ingredients in a bowl. Set aside.
• Whisk together the wet ingredients in a bowl till well mixed.
• Add onto the dry ingredients and fold till combined.
• Pour into the loaf pan and bake for 30 to 45 minutest till skewer comes out clean.
• Flip onto a cooling rack and cool completely.
• Mix the jam and water in a bowl and microwave till melted and combined. Brush on top of the loaf. Serve and enjoy!

Notes

The glaze is optional.
You can use any jam of your choice to make the glaze.