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Lemon yogurt cake 2

Lemon Yogurt Cake

This is a Donna Hay recipe, except I omitted thyme and added Baking soda to it. It is one of the simplest baking recipes ever and can be baked anytime, since the ingredients required are always at home.
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 40 minutes
Total Time 50 minutes
Course Cakes and Bakes
Servings 12 people

Ingredients
  

Ingredients for the Cake

  • 3/4 Cup Any White Vegetable Oil
  • 2 Nos Eggs
  • 1 Tbsp Grated Lemon Rind
  • 2 Tbsp Lemon Juice
  • 1 Cup Thick Yogurt
  • 1 3/4 Cup Caster sugar
  • 2 Cups Flour
  • 1 Tsp Baking soda

Ingredients for Lemon Frosting with Icing Sugar

  • 1 Cup Icing Sugar
  • 1 Tbsp Lemon Juice
  • 1/2 Tbsp Boiling Water

Ingredients for Lemon Frosting with Granulated Sugar

  • 1/4 Cup Lemon Juice
  • 3/4 Cup Granulated Sugar

Instructions
 

Baking the Cake

  • Baking this cake is fairly simple. There are no major techniques involved.
  • In a large mixing bowl, pour the oil and add the eggs.
  • Using a whisk, lightly beat the eggs and mix with the oil.
  • Add the rind, lemon juice, yogurt and sugar and whisk it all up into a smooth batter. It only takes a couple of minutes.
  • Take a sieve on top of the bowl and add flour and baking powder to it. Sift it all in the batter.
  • In any other cake, you are supposed to fold in the flour carefully etc etc. Well, here, just continue whisking, but gently till the flour has completely mixed with the cake. Again this should only take a couple of minutes.
  • Grease a cake tin and pour the batter in it.
  • Bake in a pre heated oven at 180 degrees C for about 35 to 40 minutes or until a skewer pricked in the centre comes out clean. Remove the cake from the oven and keep it in the tin.

Frosting with Icing Sugar

  • It is simple. Sift the icing sugar and combine all the ingredients together. Tip the cake out of the tin after 5 minutes of standing.
  • Pour the icing using a spoon over the warm cake and watch it soak some of the icing and solidify on the cake, giving it a beautiful appearance. Serve it once it has cooled down.

Frosting with Granulated Sugar

  • Here too, combine all the ingredients and whisk it a little bit until it is of a pouring consistency. Tip the cake out of the tin after 5 minutes of standing and using a spoon, pour the icing all over it.
  • This icing gives a different visual effect. When the granulated sugar hardens over the cake as it cools down, it looks like grains of crystal over the golden brown cake.
  • Cut the cake into slices and serve once cooled down.