The APPLE AND GREEK YOGURT CAKE is soft and delicious, an easy and quick apple cake without electric mixers that comes out soft and moist, full of apples. Preparing the apple and Greek yogurt cake is very easy, you just need to mix the ingredients with a hand whisk, in a few minutes it is ready to bake and what a wonderful aroma while it’s cooking. I love Greek yogurt in the batter of soft cakes, it makes them even softer and moister. The Greek yogurt and apple cake is great for breakfast and snack, everyone in the family will love it, it stays soft for several days, it’s a healthy, simple, and genuine apple dessert. Follow me in the recipe for this delicious apple cake without butter Greek yogurt in the batter, we prepare it together.
- Difficulty: Very easy
- Cost: Very cheap
- Preparation time: 10 Minutes
- Portions: 10-inch square, 9-inch round
- Cooking methods: Oven
- Cuisine: Italian
- Seasonality: All seasons
Ingredients
- 3 eggs
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 3/4 cup Greek yogurt
- 1/2 cup sunflower oil
- 1 lemon zest (grated)
- 2 1/3 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 packet baking powder
- to taste vanilla powdered sugar (for decoration)
- 5 Golden apples
Steps
Place the eggs and sugar in a bowl, mix with a hand whisk to combine well, pour the oil in a stream and mix again. Add the Greek yogurt, continue working with the hand whisk to achieve a smooth batter without lumps.
Now add the grated lemon zest, orange zest, or if you prefer vanilla essence, mix, then sift in the flour and baking powder, mix well to combine all the ingredients, resulting in a lump-free batter.
Wash the apples, dry them, peel them and cut them into cubes, put half into the batter and mix. Take a baking pan, line it with parchment paper, pour the batter with the apples inside, then top with the remaining apple cubes and bake in a preheated static oven at 350°F for about 40 minutes, baking times may vary from oven to oven, the toothpick test is valid. Once baked and cooled, let the apple and Greek yogurt cake cool and then cover it with plenty of powdered sugar.
… Vane’s tips
The apple and Greek yogurt cake keeps for 5-6 days under a cake dome, better in the fridge.
You can replace apples with other seasonal fruit, pears, strawberries, etc.
You can use plain yogurt, in this case, since it’s more liquid than Greek yogurt, use 1/2 cup instead.
