# Yogurt cake

> The emptied pot, rinsed and dried, is your only measure. Everything counts in pots, and the order 1, 2, 3 is easy to remember: one pot of yogurt, two of sugar, three of flour.

## The essentials

The yogurt cake is the cake you make with children, because the yogurt pot is the measure for everything and there is nothing to weigh. One pot of yogurt, two pots of sugar, three pots of flour, half a pot of oil, three eggs, a sachet of baking powder, and thirty-five minutes in the oven. It keeps three days under a tea towel, and it comes in endless versions: apples, chocolate, lemon, pears.

## The one thing to know

The emptied pot, rinsed and dried, is your only measure. Everything counts in pots, and the order 1, 2, 3 is easy to remember: one pot of yogurt, two of sugar, three of flour.

## The method

1. Preheat the oven to 180 °C (350 °F). Butter and flour a 22 cm tin, or put baking paper in the bottom.
2. Empty the yogurt into a bowl. Rinse the pot: that is your measure. Add two pots of sugar and three eggs, whisk for a minute.
3. Add three pots of flour and the baking powder, mix until smooth, no more.
4. Pour in half a pot of oil, mix. A sachet of vanilla sugar, the zest of a lemon or an apple in dice if you like.
5. Pour into the tin, thirty to thirty-five minutes at 180 °C. It is done when the blade of a knife pushed into the centre comes out dry. Let it cool ten minutes before turning it out.

## The quantities

One 125 g pot of plain yogurt, two pots of sugar, three pots of flour, half a pot of neutral oil, three eggs, one sachet of baking powder (about 11 g, or 2½ teaspoons). A 22 cm tin, eight slices.

## How long it takes

Ten minutes of preparation, thirty-five minutes in the oven, ten minutes of patience before turning out.

## If it goes wrong

The centre is raw: five to ten more minutes, covering with a sheet of foil if the top browns. It sank in the middle: the oven was opened too early, it eats fine anyway, with cream in the dip. It sticks to the tin: run a blade around the edge and wait until it is lukewarm. It is dry: overcooked, or too much flour, a sugar and lemon syrup poured on top rescues it.

## Make it tonight

The yogurt cake, with a child counting the pots. Tomorrow, the same with two diced apples.

## The linked base recipe: Yogurt cake (8 slices)

- 1 plain yogurt (125 g)
- 2 pots sugar
- 3 pots flour
- 1/2 pot neutral oil
- 3 eggs
- 1 sachet baking powder
- 1 sachet vanilla sugar (optional)

_See first : [Measuring without a scale (spoons, glass)](https://disheazy.com/bases/measuring-without-a-scale)_

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