Introduction
Gateau yaourt (yogurt cake) is a well known cake in France. Because it is pretty easy, it’s often one of the first cakes you bake as a kid.
As the name calls it, there is a yogurt involved in this cake and most of the recipes are using the yogurt pot to measure all the other ingredients! *Below you’ll also find the conversion into grams / cups.*
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Ingredients
- Yogurt (plain or vanilla flavored): 1 pot | 125g | 4.3 oz | 1/2 cup + 3 tbsp
- Sugar: 2 pots | 200g | 7oz | 1 cup
- Egg: 3
- All-purpose flour: 255g | 9oz | 2 + 1/4 cup
- Baking powder: 6g | 0.25oz | 1 tsp
- Butter: 50g | 1.9oz | 4 tbsp
- Vanilla extract: 1 tsp | 1 cac
- Pear: 3
Nutrition
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🧐 Serving: 145g
Calories: 287 kcal
Total Fat: 5.9g (8%)
Saturated Fat: 3.2g (16%)
Cholesterol: 61mg (20%)
Sodium: 58mg (3%)
Total Carbohydrate: 55g (20%)
Fiber: 2.3g (8%)
Sugar: 33.1g
Protein: 5.2g
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Preparation
- Preheat oven to 360 F (180 C).
- in a medium saucepan, put some water, sugar and vanilla beans. Bring to a boil. Meanwhile peal and cut pears into halves. Once water boils, add pears and cook for few minutes, returning same once. Set aside on a grid (place a recipient below to catch drops).
- In a medium bowl, beat eggs with sugar & vanilla extract. Add yogurt & whisk.
- Add all-purpose flour & baking powder.
- Whisk everything together & add the melted butter.
- Grease a pan & transfer the cake mix into it up to 2/3 of the pan. Add pears halves. Cover with the rest of the cake mix.
- Bake for 35 minutes, check with a knife if the cake is baked at center -
*the knife should come out clean & dry.*
Preparation of the cake mix (ingredients for 2 eggs instead of 3 here)
Preparation of the cake mix (ingredients for 2 eggs instead of 3 here)