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Lemon Yogurt Cake

Lemon Yogurt Cake

Course Dessert Recipes
Servings 1 Loaf

Ingredients
  

  • 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
  • 2 teaspoons baking powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 1 cup vanilla whole-milk yogurt
  • 3/4 cup sugar
  • 3 extra-large eggs
  • 2 teaspoons grated lemon zest 2 lemons
  • 1/2 cup vegetable oil
  • Syrup:
  • 1/3 cup lemon juice
  • 1/3 cup sugar

For the Glaze:

  • 1 cup Confectioners sugar
  • 2 Tablespoons Lemon juice

Instructions
 

  • Preheat the oven to 350° F.
  • Grease and flour a loaf pan.
  • In a small bowl, combine flour, baking powder and salt. Whisk together.
  • In a large bowl, whisk together the yogurt, sugar, eggs and lemon zest. Carefully whisk the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients.
  • Fold the vegetable oil into the batter, making sure it’s all incorporated. Pour the batter into the prepared pan and bake until a cake tester placed in the center of the loaf comes out clean, about 30-50 minutes.
  • While the cake is baking, combine ingredients for syrup in a small pan.
  • Heat syrup until sugar is completely incorporated. Set aside.
  • When cake is done baking, remove from loaf pan (you may want to wait 10 minutes) and place on a cooling rack that has been placed over a baking sheet.
  • Make small holes in the loaf with a cake tester or tooth pick.
  • Slowly pour or drizzle syrup over cake and allow to soak in.
  • Let cake cool completely.
  • Make glaze and pour over cake.
  • Cook the 1/3 cup lemon juice and remaining 1/3 cup sugar in a small pan until the sugar dissolves and the mixture is clear – set aside.
  • When the cake is done, allow it to cool in the pan for 10 minutes. Carefully place on a baking rack over a sheet pan. While the cake is still warm, pour the lemon-sugar mixture over the cake and allow it to soak in. Cool the cake.
  • For the glaze, combine the confectioners’ sugar and lemon juice and pour over the cake.