Grace's Kitchen: July 2012

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Tuesday, July 24, 2012

Yogurt Apple Cake

This was the first cake I bake when I bought a new electric oven few years ago. The cake was failed that time because I totally don't have any knowledge on baking.

After few year, at least I know some basic skill on baking, so I try to bake this cake again. Yeah, I was successfully! ^^

I forget where the original recipe from, I have done some modification based on the original recipe, here is my modified recipe.

Ingredients:
250g Butter, 160g Sugar, 5 eggs, 135ml Yogurt (I am using Cranberry flavor Yogurt from Nutrigen Liteyo), 320g flour, 1 tsp baking powder, 1/4 tsp sodium bicarbonate, 3 apples cut into cubes, cinnamon powder, sultanas and rum.

Directions:
1. Soak sultanas with rum.
2. Sift flour, baking powder and sodium bicarbonate, set aside.
3. Cream butter and sugar till light and fluffy.
4. Add the egg one by one into (3). Cream until smooth and light.
5. Add (2) and yogurt alternately, mix till well blended.
6. Mix apples cubes, cinnamon powder and sultanas (do not include rum) into (5).
7. Pour the batter into a greased 9" round mold.
8. Bake at 180°C for 90 minutes. Test with skewer, the cake is ready when the skewer comes out clean.
9. Glaze the cake with apricot jams (or any flavor will do), set aside, allow the cake to cool.

*Note: You might need to cover the cake with aluminium foil after baked around 40 - 50 minutes.