Ready for a tasty and fragrant breakfast or coffee break? Today we’re talking about a simple dessert to make, the yogurt pound cake with walnuts and chocolate. Thanks to the presence of potato starch, this delicious pound cake is very soft; also, it is easy and quick to prepare and can be customized both in shape and ingredients. The walnuts perfectly match the aroma and flavor of dark chocolate, making this pound cake special, truly good, to recommend even to our friends. For leisure time, school or work, we can also prepare the yogurt pound cake with walnuts and chocolate in cupcake or muffin versions, much more convenient to carry.
- Difficulty: Very easy
- Cost: Inexpensive
- Preparation time: 20 Minutes
- Portions: 10/12 slices
- Cooking methods: Oven
- Cuisine: Italian
- Seasonality: Autumn, Winter, and Spring
Ingredients
- 2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 3 tbsps potato starch
- 1 packet baking powder
- 3/4 cup granulated sugar
- 1 pinch fine salt
- 1/2 cup vanilla yogurt
- 3 medium whole eggs
- 1 packet vanillin
- 1/3 cup vegetable oil
- 1/2 cup chopped walnuts
- 3 1/2 oz dark chocolate (coarsely chopped)
- to taste walnut halves and chopped chocolate (for decoration)
Preparation
Line a loaf pan with parchment paper and preheat the oven to 350°F.
Prepare all the ingredients in front of you. You can use any other sweet yogurt flavor, as long as it doesn’t have fruit pieces.
Sift together the flour, baking powder, and potato starch, place them in the bowl of a stand mixer along with all the other ingredients, and mix until you obtain a creamy and well-blended mixture.
Pour the mixture into the pan, level it with the back of a spoon, decorate the surface of the pound cake with the walnut halves and pieces of chocolate we had set aside. Bake in the middle rack for about 35-40 minutes at most.
Check the cooking by inserting a long skewer that should come out without traces of raw creamy batter.
Immediately remove the yogurt pound cake with walnuts and chocolate from the oven and let it cool before cutting. You can sprinkle it with powdered sugar.
