The 5-minute yogurt and pear cake is a soft and wholesome dessert ideal for breakfast or children’s snack time. As the name suggests, this recipe can be made very quickly with easy-to-find ingredients and is truly delicious.
Yogurt keeps the batter soft for a long time, you just need two bowls and two pears to make a delicious cake that will be gone in no time. The 5-minute cakes are quick desserts but no less tasty for it; in fact, it’s the quick process that makes them extremely soft.
The yogurt and pear cake is flavored with lemon zest and vanilla, but you can personalize it to your taste, as its delicate fruit pairs well with citrus, cinnamon, bitter almond, or rum.
Also try the other 5-minute cakes
- Difficulty: Very easy
- Cost: Affordable
- Preparation time: 10 Minutes
- Portions: 8 People
- Cooking methods: Electric oven
- Cuisine: Italian
- Seasonality: Autumn, Winter, and Spring
- Energy 277.09 (Kcal)
- Carbohydrates 44.34 (g) of which sugars 25.53 (g)
- Proteins 4.95 (g)
- Fat 9.80 (g) of which saturated 1.97 (g)of which unsaturated 7.15 (g)
- Fibers 1.59 (g)
- Sodium 24.67 (mg)
Indicative values for a portion of 100 g processed in an automated way starting from the nutritional information available on the CREA* and FoodData Central** databases. It is not food and / or nutritional advice.
* CREATES Food and Nutrition Research Center: https://www.crea.gov.it/alimenti-e-nutrizione https://www.alimentinutrizione.it ** U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service. FoodData Central, 2019. https://fdc.nal.usda.gov
Ingredients
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 1/2 cup plain yogurt
- 1/3 cup peanut oil (or other seed oil or 1/3 cup + 1 tbsp softened butter)
- 2 eggs (medium)
- 1 packet baking powder
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 teaspoon lemon zest (or grated orange zest)
- 2 tablespoons sugar sprinkles (for dusting)
- 2 Abate pears (firm and sweet, mine were 10.5 oz net weight. You can also double and add 2 sliced pears on the surface.)
Tools
- 2 bowls
- 1 Whisk
- 1 Sieve
- 1 Cake Pan springform, 9.5 inches in diameter
Procedure
Crack the eggs into a bowl, add the sugar and mix well. Add the yogurt, oil, vanilla, and lemon zest, incorporating everything.
In the other bowl, sift the flour with the baking powder and set aside.
Wash the pears, peel them, remove the core, and cut them into small cubes, about 1/4 inch.
Pour the liquid ingredients, little by little, into the bowl with the dry ingredients, mixing with the whisk, until you get a homogeneous batter.
Add the pear cubes and mix.
Pour the batter into the greased and floured pan and sprinkle the surface with sugar sprinkles.
Bake the cake in a preheated static oven at 350°F for 35 minutes.
Do a toothpick test to verify the cooking; if necessary, extend it for a few more minutes.If the surface of the cake tends to darken too much, cover it with a sheet of aluminum foil.
The 5-minute yogurt and pear cake is ready; let it cool completely, sprinkle with powdered sugar, and serve.
Advice
Storage
The 5-minute yogurt and pear cake can be stored at room temperature for 3 days in the appropriate cake container.
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