Chilled Vitagen Yogurt Cake

This is my first time making a cake for my sister. Recipe was taken from a "sleeping" blog over here,

To share an 8"cake with ten over peoples is way too miserable for them. So I made two quantities. One using an 8" loose bottom pan and the other using an 8" cake pan lined with foil. The latter's appearance didn't look nice after tearing off the side. As I have no confident to decorate the cake, I simply serve without any decoration.

Anyway, the cakes were very well-received by my sisters, brothers, nephews, niece and my two little sons. Most of them asked for second serving! :) My 2nd sister requested me to make some more next time! :))

Coffee Yogurt Cashew Nuts Cake

Made this cake specially for my elder son's birthday yesterday. Recipe was taken from Happy Home Baker. I use a loose bottom cake pan to bake this cake.

Though this was fairly an easy cake, my cake looked a bit over baked! :(

As the cake was baking in the oven, I busy myself with other things. When I tried to take a look at my oven later on, to my horror, smoke was circulating in the oven! Panic! I opened the oven and noticed some liquid flowing on my oven floor! (I seldom put my dripping pan under the rack.) Swiftly, I wiped the liquid away. From then on, my oven became hay wired... my top grilling elements lighted up!!....gosh! I could smell some "burnt" coffee!! The rest of the time I'd no choice but to open the oven door frequently...... :( and the cake was obviously brown as compared to Happy Home Baker and Small Small Baker.

Overall, this is a good cake (but fattening! can't make often :) ) though my husband find it on the sweet side. Well, next time I just have to reduce the sugar (brown or caster sugar?)

Looking at how my sons ate their cakes, I knew they enjoyed the cake very well... crumbles on the table, chairs and floor.....! My little son, a picky eater, finished all the crumbles first before eating the cake layer !

Low-fat Orange Almond Yogurt Cake

Bought a tub of yogurt not long ago. As the expiry date is getting nearer, have to find ways to use it fast...

I had tried this recipe from Happy Home Baker quite a few times. Each time the cake was well-received by my family (my kids simply love it!) and others.

For your info, I'm not adventurous in cake baking. The cakes I usually baked are either Yogurt cake or Chiffon cake, quite boring... :( And I'm still struggling with beating egg whites.... :(

Anyway, made this cake today. However, made some modification to the original recipe.

Ingredients:

250g cake flour

1 tsp vanilla powder (I added this cos' I love vanilla!)

1 tsp baking powder

1/2 tsp baking soda

1/2 tsp salt

70g butter (soften @ room temp)

zest of 1 orange

160g caster sugar (original recipe calls for 200g of sugar)

2 eggs, lightly beaten

1 cup plain, non-fat yogurt

1 tsp vanilla essence

2 tbs orange juice

Some Almond slices - I toasted the almond slices. Thought that may bring out the flavour

better

Method:

1. Preheat oven @ 180 deg C. Grease a 20 cm (8 inch) round pan.

2. Sift: cake flour, vanilla powder, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Set aside.

3. In a bowl, mix together: yogurt, vanilla essence and orange juice.

4. With an electric mixer, beat butter and orange zest for 1 min.

Add in sugar and beat on high speed for about 3 mins.

5. Add in eggs gradually, abt 1 tbs at a time, beating constantly for about 2 mins .

6. On low speed, beat in 1/3 of the flour mixture;

On medium high speed, beat in 1/2 of the yogurt mixture;

On low speed, beat in half of the remaining flour mixture;

On high speed, beat in the remaining yogurt mixture;

On low speed, beat the rest of the flour mixture.

7. Scrape into prepared pan and bake for 45 mins or until a toothpick inserted into the centre

comes out clean.

PS: I almost forgot about the almond slices until I'd poured the batter into the pan. Anyway,

put the almond slices into the pan and gave it a stir.

The cake took another 10 mins to bake partly becos' I place an aluminium foil on top

to prevent it from browning too quickly. Did you notice? my cake is not brown on top.

I let the cake cool in the pan for about 20 mins. Thereafter, umould and let it cool on a

wire rack.

The cake tasted soft and light hmm.... My younger son requested for a piece during the cooling period....

However, husband remarked that it wasn't that sweet and the sweetness was uneven (centre sweet, side not that sweet!!) as compared with the previous cake! :( I used lemon instead of orange the last few times., exactly 160g sugar leh...) What a picky eater..... :(

Nonetheless, my kids said YUM,YUM,YUM! :))