Only a beautiful, easy Lemon Yogurt Cake that makes the proper tea time deal with! You’ll love the brilliant lemon flavour, that it’s so superbly moist and solely requires one bowl and a whisk. Completed with a lemon glaze, that is a straightforward cake you may whip up on quick discover. Yoghurt retains the cake moist so it lasts for days and days! It’s the identical batter used on this Blueberry Lemon Cake and Strawberry Cake.
Glazed Lemon Yogurt Cake recipe
This Lemon Cake is one in every of my emergency fast and simple cake recipes, one thing I can get within the oven tremendous shortly once I’m quick on time. There’s no creaming of butter required, it’s a fast dump-and-mix cake. (Once I’m longer on time I would as an alternative plump for this sponge-based Lemon Cake with Fluffy Lemon Frosting …)
The “secret ingredient” in that is yoghurt. Yoghurt is a superb baking ingredient as a result of it thickens the batter which suggests much less flour required which = extra moist cake.
I like how golden brown this cake is straight out of the oven. It virtually glows!
Lemon Glaze
Within the spirit of this being a easy teacake, I hold the frosting easy too. I simply use a Glaze or a fast Cream Cheese Frosting.
For the glaze, I prefer to make the glaze a bit thicker than typical glazes as a result of it provides that additional oomph of sweetness and stickiness to the cake, versus slicing it in half and sandwiching it with one thing.
Added bonus: I like how the drips look and the way the glaze isn’t see via.
If a glaze isn’t your factor otherwise you need extra frosting, I’ve additionally included my fast Cream Cheese Frosting. That is totally different to the standard Cream Cheese Frosting I exploit for issues like Crimson Velvet and Carrot Cake which requires a stand mixer and a great 7 minutes of quick beating.
Within the spirit of the simplicity of this fast Lemon Cake recipe, I exploit my shortcut Cream Cheese Frosting which I make just by mixing spreadable Cream Cheese (is available in tubs, not blocks) with lemon juice and icing sugar. No stand mixer required, no have to even wait to melt the cream cheese. Simply combine it up with a wood spoon, dollop and unfold.
You understand that fairly cake decorations aren’t my factor. I’d most likely spend extra time styling a large plate of gradual cooked meat than I might spend adorning a towering cake!
So in my normal kind, I’ve stored it good and easy – just a few lemon slices and some sprigs of child’s breath from a bunch I occurred to have.
This cake could also be easy however in all honesty, it’s most likely the cake I made most frequently final 12 months. I truly supposed to share it earlier this 12 months, however then I received all excited as a result of blueberries got here into season so I printed the Blueberry Lemon Cake as an alternative (identical cake, however with blueberries).
So I sat on this Lemon Cake recipe for a few months till an sufficient period of time had handed. And eventually, I’m sharing it! – Nagi x
Extra fast, emergency muffins
No creaming butter, no stand mixer for any of those!
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Glazed Lemon Yogurt Cake recipe
Creator: Nagi
Prep: quarter-hour minutes
Prepare dinner: 50 minutes minutes
Whole: 1 hour hr 5 minutes minutes
Desserts
Western
Servings10
Faucet or hover to scale
Recipe VIDEO above. This can be a great, easy tea cake with brilliant lemon flavours. It is superbly moist and retains for days because of the yogurt (bakers’ trick!). I like the way it’s made in a single bowl with only a whisk, and it is fast to organize. Glazed with a lemon glaze – or strive my fast cream cheese frosting (recipe in notes).
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Directions
Preheat oven to 180C/350F (commonplace) or 160C/320F (fan/convection). Grease a 20 cm / 8” cake pan with butter.
Place Moist components in a bowl. Whisk till mixed.
Sprinkle over flour, baking powder and salt. Whisk till easy – few small lumps is okay.
Pour into pan – it must be pretty thick however pourable (see video). Bake for 50 minutes or till a skewer comes out clear.
Take away steel ring and funky on rack then glaze.
Glaze:
Place components in a bowl and whisk till easy. Check down the facet of the bowl to get the fitting thickness, utilizing 1 tsp of yoghurt at a time to skinny it out if required. Glaze ought to drip (slowly, as a result of it’s thick) however not be see via.
Place rack on a tray or baking paper.
Pour glaze over the center of the cake, gently push in direction of the sides so it drips down the edges.
Let it set for 1 hour earlier than transferring to a serving plate.
See word for the way I did the lemon slices within the pictures, and the choice fast Cream Cheese Frosting.
Recipe Notes:1. Any plain, thick yoghurt shall be wonderful for this. Full fats is best, however low fats will even work. I don’t advocate zero fats yoghurt, it tends to be too skinny and the aim of yoghurt is so as to add wetness to the batter whereas conserving it thick which is why the cake is so moist.
Bitter cream (gentle or full fats) can be used.
2. Lemon Slice ornament – lower 2 skinny lemon slices. Then lower a slit into the centre. Twist and place on the cake. Twist the opposite slice in the wrong way and place on the cake, overlapping with the primary slice.
3. Fast Cream Cheese Frosting (pictured in submit): Use 200g/6 oz SPREADABLE Cream Cheese (is available in tubs, not blocks) and blend with 2 cups icing sugar / powdered sugar + 2 tbsp lemon juice. Use a wood spoon to combine nicely then unfold on cake.
4. DIFFERENT MEASURES IN DIFFERENT COUNTRIES: Tablespoon and cup measures differ barely between some international locations all over the world. The principle variations are US measures vs remainder of the world. For many recipes, the distinction will not be materials sufficient to have an effect on the recipe. For baking recipes, it may be the distinction between success and failure. Fortunately, this specific recipe is definitely fairly forgiving so the distinction in measures doesn’t have an effect on it so there is no such thing as a have to convert. Exception: Japan – please use weights supplied, not Japanese cups.
5. STORAGE: Hold in an hermetic container for as much as 5 days, it stays actually moist. The glaze sweats into the cake barely so that you get an identical impact to these coke syrup muffins / poke muffins the place you pour candy syrup over the cake to soak into it and this additionally helps hold it moist. If it’s loopy sizzling the place you’re (Dec – Feb in Australia), hold it within the fridge after 24 hours (as a result of mould loves moisture + warmth and this cake could be very moist )
Diet Info:
Energy: 412cal (21%)Carbohydrates: 62g (21%)Protein: 4g (8%)Fats: 16g (25%)Saturated Fats: 1g (6%)Ldl cholesterol: 36mg (12%)Sodium: 28mg (1%)Potassium: 283mg (8%)Sugar: 41g (46%)Vitamin A: 70IU (1%)Vitamin C: 0.7mg (1%)Calcium: 129mg (13%)Iron: 1.5mg (8%)
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LIFE OF DOZER
You possibly can simply think about the ideas working via that furry head:
“Will I make it to the door??”
“How arduous wouldn’t it be to scoff it down on the run??”
“I ponder if she’s going to frost it? Possibly I ought to wait…”
Dozer was my stunning canine and devoted companion for 14 years. He was additionally official taste-tester of RecipeTin Eats, and crammed day-after-day with pleasure, mischief and laughs. He handed away in February 2026. I miss him day-after-day. The Life Of Dozer part shares the happiest moments of his life and retains his reminiscence alive. Learn extra about him right here.
In loving reminiscence of Dozer
2012 – 2026
