Orange Yogurt Cake.

If you are looking for a weight watchers cake well balanced between gastronomical satisfaction and sinfulness, this orange yogurt cake could be your choice of cake. I truly love this recipe because I always tend to abandon the last few pots of yogurt in the fridge for weeks when my crave for it has already easily satisfied by the first pot. You could be deceived by the moist appearance of this cake, believe it or not, there is absolutely no butter in this recipe. Your hands may tend to reach this cake one slice after the other, because the tangy orange flavour is so refreshing and the moist texture of this cake is pretty similar to the ordinary butter cake.

Ingredients (1 loaf)

2 eggs

100g castor sugar (I reduced it to 70g)

Finely grated zest from 1 orange

4 tablespoons of fresh orange juice (I used Jaffa orange)

1/2 teaspoon of vanilla essence

140g plain flour (sifted)

1 and a half teaspoons of baking powder (sifted)

125ml low fat greek style yogurt (I used a peach flavour yogurt pot)

60ml oil (I used sunflower oil)

Icing sugar for dusting

Method

1. Preheat oven to 180 °C. Whisk egg and sugar for 3 to 4 minutes until thick and creamy.

2. Add in a pinch of orange zest, orange juice and vanilla essence. Beat for another minute.

3. Fold in the mixture of plain flour and baking powder into the mixture in Step 2.

4. Fold in the yogurt followed by the oil.

5. Pour the batter into a lined and greased loaf tin. Bake at 180 °C for 35 to 45 minutes until a toothpick comes out clean.

6. Cool the cake in tin for 10 minutes then without the tin for another 10 minutes.

7. Dust with icing sugar and orange zest (optional).

* You may substitute the orange juice with lemon juice or mango juice to make lemon yogurt cake or mango yogurt cake.

Food facts. Did you know?

The commercially available flavoured yogurt contains about 27 grams of sugar per 6-ounce serving and 170 calories compared to plain, low-fat yogurt which has around 110 calories without sugar.

It is time to get back to plain yogurt. Normally I eat it with fresh fruits instead of preserved fruits which come along with many flavoured yogurt. Dried fruits/ preserved fruits are normally high in sugar and lack of vitamins compared to fresh fruits.