This is a traditional French recipe where the measurements are measured in the little yogurt glass bottles in France.

It goes very well with a cup of tea in the afternoons. The use of yogurt makes the cake moist and the tanginess keeps it refreshing.

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Makes: A 20cm (8-inch) cake
Bake: At 175C for 35 - 40 mins (or until a skewer comes out clean)

Ingredients:-

For the cake
~ 210g cake flour (or all purpose flour)
~ 2 tsp baking powder
~ 2 pinches of salt
~ 200g of caster sugar*
~ 1 medium lemon
~ 180ml vanilla yogurt
~ 3 large eggs, room temperature
~ 1/4 tsp vanilla extract
~ 1/2 cup olive oil**

*The sugar can be reduced to 160g - 180g if you prefer something less sweet.

**You can substitute this with other types of vegetable oil eg. grape seed, canola.

For the glaze
~ Juice of half a lemon
~ 1 tbsp of caster sugar

This recipe is adapted from carolinescooking.com and thecafesucrefarine.com.

Enjoy! 🙂

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