On Monday while I was at the gym we got to talking while doing the "plank" (as you do) about what we had eaten/made over the weekend - hey, you gotta do something to get your mind off the world of pain you are in while holding that "plank" for 2 minutes!!
As it turned out my gym buddy had made a Lemon Yoghurt Syrup cake that she had found the recipe for recently in the Sydney Morning Herald.
As I trawled the internet this week looking for inspiration - what should I find on the Cuisine website - but this self same cake. It must be fate - surely this is a sign that I must make this cake.
As luck would have it one of my good friends turned 50 this week - now I had a reason to make a cake (like I really needed one!!) I would make this cake for her and take it along to tennis to share will all our friends (have you noticed how all of us food bloggers love to cook, then have to find some way of distributing the food around, so that we don't actually eat it all ourselves!!!)
Lemon Yoghurt Syrup Cake
Printed in Sydney Morning Herald 20/10/10
Chef: Caroline Velik
125g butter, softened
250g (1 cup) castor sugar
2 large eggs
1 cup greek yoghurt
1 tsp pure vanilla extract
zest of 2 lemons
3tbs lemon juice
400g (2 cups) self raising flour
1/2 tsp bi-carb soda
Syrup
1 cup castor sugar
1 cup water
4tbs lemon juice
2 lemons, finely sliced
Preheat oven to 180C.
Cream butter and sugar in an electric mixer until light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time and continue to mix until combined. Add yoghurt, vanilla, lemon zest and juice and mix. Add flour and bi-carb soda and gently fold through.
Put mixture in cake tin and smooth surface. The mixture will be quite firm. Bake for 45 minutes, or until cake is cooked through.
Meanwhile, make syrup. Combine sugar, water and lemon juice in a small saucepan and cook over low heat to dissolve the sugar. Add lemon slices and simmer for 10 minutes, to soften the lemon. Set aside.
When cake is cooked, remove from the oven and poke all over with a bamboo skewer, to make lots of small holes.
Slowly pour the lemon syrup over the hot cake until all absorbed.
Place the lemon slices decoratively over the top.
Allow to cool, then remove from the tin.
I would have taken a photo of the lovely moist inside - but I thought it was a tad rude to take a "cut" cake - and it was so popular that there was none left!!!
This would make a lovely dessert cake - it is not overly sweet - but serve it with some vanilla ice cream, or whipped cream and you have a winner!! It reminded me a lot of the lemon delicious pudding my mum used to make - lovely and moist in the middle with all the syrup!
Not sure if the tennis actually achieved anything today as the cake piled back on whatever I was hoping to burn up! Oh well back to the gym for another recipe swap tomorrow!!
So Dear Readers what do you talk about when you are out exercising - is it food?????
I made this cake when i saw the recipe in the herald, its lovely.Im not much of a cake eater, but this was not too sweet!!
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