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Apple Yoghurt 56 3

Apple Yoghurt Cake

a delicious, tender cake made with yoghurt and a fabulous butter, brandy and almond sauce

Ingredients
  

  • 125 g butter softened
  • 220 g castor sugar
  • 3 eggs
  • zest of 1 lemon
  • 200 g self raising flour
  • 1/4 tsp salt
  • 200 g plain yoghurt
  • 2 large apples quartered and sliced
  • 1 tsp castor sugar for dusting
  • Sauce
  • 100 g butter
  • 1/2 cup of full cream milk
  • 2 tbsp honey
  • 1 tbsp brandy
  • 1 tbsp almond extract

Instructions
 

  • Preheat oven to 180C.
  • Grease and line the base and sides of a 20cm round loose bottom cake tin.
  • Beat butter and castor sugar until pale and fluffy.
  • Beat in the eggs one at a time (it will look a bit curdled).
  • Gently fold in lemon zest.
  • Add the salt to the flour and add to the egg mixture, alternating with the yoghurt.
  • Spoon the mixture into the prepared tin.
  • Arrange the apple slices on top of the cake and sprinkle lightly with castor sugar
  • Bake for 45 - 55 minutes until golden brown and a skewer inserted into the centre of the cake comes out clean.
  • While the cake bakes, put all the sauce ingredients in a pan and let it warm until the butter has melted.
  • Remove cake from oven but leave it in the tin.
  • Using a fine skewer, pierce the cake all over and spoon the warm sauce over the cake so it soaks evenly.
  • Once cooled, remove from the tin and serve.
  • Adapted from www.ironchefshellie.com