A Quick Lemon Yogurt Cake

I'm a great example of someone whose tastes have changed over the years.  I used to love chocolate!  I practically LIVED for chocolate.  Heaven, to me would be cold milk and half a big package of Oreo cookies!  Really!  I had the metabolism of a workhorse when I was younger.  These days I crave really good, moist, rich, eggy, yellow cake.  Sometimes flavored with cinnamon or pumpkin pie spice in the batter, lots of good Mexican vanilla.  Today I was browsing YouTube videos and found one that looked good.  The recipe calls for plain Greek yogurt, but I was almost out of that.  I did have two little tubs of flavored yogurt.  A lemon and a coconut.  It truly was a tossup, but since I have fresh lemons for the zest, this time, lemon won.  Other than that, I followed the recipe exactly!!  The baking time is a little loose, and I sort of lost track, couldn't remember if I started with 20 or 25 minutes, so I'd say bake until the top browns, the cake pulls away from the edges of the pan and just to be safe, have it pass the 'toothpick test.'

After 20 minutes or so, I sprinkled the top with cardamom sugar, but it would have adhered better if done that as it went in the oven.  Ohhhh, this was SO good, it's something I'll make again and vary the flavors as new ideas happen.  Cherry yogurt with a dab of cherry preserves on each slice.  Orange yogurt with orange zest and a drizzled icing made of powdered sugar and juice of the orange.  So many ways this could go!  Plain yogurt with 1/3 of the batter mixed with 1-2t cinnamon and swirled for a cinnamon marble yogurt cake.  Slice apples coated with cinnamon sugar in the bottom of the pan, flipped over when baked for an Apple Upside-down Cake. . .

  

Be Creative!  Happy Cooking!

recipe—> Simple Yogurt Cake