Chocolate Yogurt Cake Recipes

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a 9-inch cake pan.
• Whisk together yogurt, sugar, oil, eggs, coffee, and vanilla extract in a bowl. Add flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, cinnamon, baking soda, salt, and nutmeg; whisk until air bubbles form in the batter. Pour batter into the prepared cake pan.
• Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, 50 to 60 minutes. Cool on a wire rack for 15 minutes. Run a table knife around the edges to loosen. Invert carefully onto a serving plate or cooling rack. Serve warm or at room temperature.

Steps:

• 1. Preheat oven to 350'F. Grease a 8.5x3.5 loaf pan.
• 2. In a large bowl, sift in flour, cocoa powder and baking powder. Add in salt, sugar. Stir to mix well.
• 3. Then, add in all the wet ingredients: yogurt, eggs, coffee and oil. Use a whisk and whisk everything together until blended.
• 4. Pour into the prepared loaf pan and bake for 50 minutes or until toothpick inserted in middle comes out clean. Cool in pan for 5 minutes before taking it out to cool completely on wire rack.

Steps:

• Heat oven to 180C (160C for fan)
• Line a large loaf tin with baking parchment
• In a large bowl, beat together the oil, yogurt, syrup, eggs and sugar
• Sift the flour, cococa, baking powder and salt into the bowl, and stir until smooth
• Pour the mixture into the tin and bake for around 1- 1 1/4 hours
• If the cake colours too quickly, cover with foil after 30 minutes cooking.
• Test with a skewer - do not overcook
• VARIATIONS.
• The recipe can be turned into a coconut cake by replacing the cocoa with dessicated coconut. Ginger cake can be made by replacing the cocoa with extra flour, use brown sugar instead of caster and treacle instead of syrup and add 2 teaspoons of ground ginger and 1/2 of mixed spice.

Steps:

• To prepare the cake:.
• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F [180 degrees C]. Make sure the egg whites are at room temperature before beginning the recipe.
• Spray an 8-inch [20-cm] round cake pan with cooking spray. Cut a round of parchment or waxed paper to fit the bottom of the pan. Smooth the paper into the pan, spray with cooking spray, and coat the bottom and sides with flour. Set aside.
• Combine the cocoa and brown sugar in a small bowl. Pour in the boiling water and stir until smooth. Set aside to cool.
• In a large bowl, whisk together the yogurt, oil, corn syrup, applesauce, egg yolk, vanilla and orange zest. Add the chocolate mixture and mix thoroughly.
• In a separate bowl, combine the cake flour, cornstarch, baking powder, soda and salt. Stir the dry ingredients gently into the chocolate mixture.
• Make sure the bowl and whip attachment of your electric mixer are perfectly clean and grease-free. Beat the egg whites until soft peaks form. Sprinkle the sugart slowly over the top, one tablespoon at a time, and continue to beat until the whites are stiff but not dry.
• Stir a large spoonful of beaten egg whites into the batter to lighten it. Gently fold in the rest of the egg whites in two steps.
• Pour the batter into the prepared pan and bake for 35 to 40 minutes, or until a toothpick or cake tester inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool on a rack for twenty minutes, then tip out of the pan onto another rack to cool completely. The cake will fall slightly as it cools. This cake is best served the same day it is baked, but if you allow it to cool completely and then wrap it carefully, it will be find the next day.
• To prepare the sauce:.
• Yogurt Cheese: Place 1 1/2 cups yogurt in a strainer lined with a coffee filter, muslin or paper towel. Place the strainer over a bowl. Refrigerate overnight. The liquid will drain from the yogurt and you will be left with a creamy cheese mixture.
• In a medium bowl, whisk together the yogurt cheese, milk, orange juice concentrate, syrup, orange zest and lemon juice. Keep whisking until the sauce is perfectly smooth. This sauce can be made ahead and refrigerated.
• To serve: Cut the cake into eight wedges. Place a wedge on each dessert plate and top with a spoonful of sauce. Lay a few orange segments and a sprig of mint on the side. [Leftover cake will keep for a few days if wrapped in plastic.

Steps:

• Prepare YOGURT CHEESE (recipe follows).
• Preheat oven to 300°F.
• Sprinkle graham cracker crumbs on the bottom of a 8-inch springform pan.
• In medium bowl with whisk, gently mix yogurt cheese, sugar, cocoa and cornstarch until well blended.
• Add eggs, vanilla and almond extract; stir until blended.
• Pour into prepared pan.
• Bake in oven for 55 to 60 minutes or until edges are set.
• Remove from oven to cooling rack.
• Cool 30 minutes at room temperature.
• With knife, loosen cake from side of pan.
• Refrigerate before serving.
• Garnish with fruit, if desired.
• YOGURT CHEESE: Line non-rusting colander or sieve with large piece of double thickness cheesecloth or large coffee filter; place colander over deep bowl.
• Spoon yogurt into prepared colander; cover with plastic wrap.
• Refrigerate until liquid no longer drains from yogurt, about 24 hours.
• Remove yogurt from cheesecloth; discard liquid.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
• In one bowl, sift together the flour, cocoa powder and the salt. In another bowl, using a mixer, mix together the eggs, sugar, greek yogurt, vanilla extract and water (or milk).
• Gradually add the flour, salt and cocoa powder mix into the other bowl. Mix until well blended. Using two 9-inch pans, cook for about 30 - 35 minutes.

Steps:

• In a saucepan, melt together butter, oil, water and cocoa powder.
• In a large bowl, mix together all the dry ingredients. Now pour over the wet mixture, and stir well.
• Add eggs and yogurt, and stir well again.
• Pour mixture into a greased 12x8 inch baking pan or glass pyrex dish. This is a single layer cake, but Im sure you could use two 8" cake tins.
• Bake at 180 deg C for 30 minutes.
• Icing: Mix all ingredients together with a small amount of milk. Pour over cake immediately.

Steps:

• Mix 1 Tbsp of flour with 1 tsp of coca and dist the inside of a greased 9 inch bundt or tube pan with this mixture, shaking out any excess.
• Sift 2 C flour and 2/3 C of cocoa together with the baking soda , set aside.
• In a large mixing bowl cream the butter and sugar together.
• Beat in the eggs, one at a time.
• Add the flour mixture alternately with the yogurt in three parts.
• Do not over mix. Stir in the vanilla.
• Pour the batter into the prepared pan and bake in a 350 oven for 45-55 minutes, until a tester inserted comes out clean.
• .Cool for 10 minutes before inverting onto a rack to cool completely -----.

Steps:

• Put oven rack in middle position and preheat oven to 350°F. Generously butter pan, then dust with cocoa powder, knocking out excess.
• Whisk together flour, 2/3 cup cocoa, baking powder, salt, and baking soda in a bowl. Whisk yogurt with water and vanilla in another bowl. Beat 3/4 stick butter with sugar in a large bowl using an electric mixer at medium speed until light and fluffy. Add eggs 1 at a time, beating after each addition. Reduce speed to low and add half of flour mixture. Add yogurt mixture, then remaining flour mixture, mixing until just combined.
• Transfer batter to pan and bake until a skewer inserted into center comes out clean, about 1 hour. Cool in pan on a rack 15 minutes, then turn out onto rack to cool completely.