Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, yoghurt cake with syrup. One of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Greek yogurt / yoghurt cake (yiaourtopita) is a traditional Greek cake recipe, made with yogurt instead of milk, which makes it extra moist and tender. Traditionally, this Greek yogurt cake recipe doesn't call for syrup, but it certainly is a nice addition! I adore lemon and lime with gin, hence any excuse to knock up this cake.
Yoghurt cake with syrup is one of the most popular of recent trending meals on earth. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Yoghurt cake with syrup is something that I’ve loved my entire life.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook yoghurt cake with syrup using 15 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Yoghurt cake with syrup:
- Get 1/2 kg sugar
- Prepare 1/2 kg butter
- Get 5 eggs
- Make ready 600 g sheep's milk yoghurt
- Take 1/2 tsp vanilla
- Take zest of one large lemon
- Make ready 2 tbsp brandy
- Prepare 1 tsp baking soda
- Make ready 1 tsp baking powder
- Make ready 800 g coarse semolina
- Make ready slivered almonds or whipping cream for garnishing
- Get For the syrup
- Take 1 kg sugar
- Prepare 4 cups water
- Take 1/2 tsp vanilla
Heat over a low heat until all the sugar has dissolved and allow to bring to the boil to get it to thicken. Because the cake is soaked in syrup, you can make it well ahead and just whip it out when you're ready to serve. Time Gently fold through the flour and bicarb. Place mixture in cake tin and smooth the surface.
Steps to make Yoghurt cake with syrup:
- Syrup Prepare the syrup earlier on, even on the previous day so when you use it it should be completely cold. You don't have to boil it for long, a couple of minutes should do it, because you don't want it to thicken.
- Cream the butter with the sugar until fluffy (if you use clarified butter it gets even better).
- Add the eggs one by one and then, little by little the yoghurt with their skin.
- Then add the spices and finally, lowering the speed, add the semolina little by little into which you have already mixed the baking soda and the baking powder.
- Pour into a buttered tray of 40 cm and bake in a preheated oven at 180°C, for about 45 minutes to one hour, depending on your oven.
- When you remove it from the oven, while it is still piping hot, pour the syrup over it that should be completely cold, sprinkle with plenty of roasted slivered almonds and let it cool thoroughly before you cut it.
I brushed the cake with freshly made orange syrup. You can also add some orange liqueur to the syrup. Once the cake is cooked, pierce the top with a skewer and slowly pour the syrup over. This moist and sweet lemon yogurt cake with syrup is perfect for a tea time. Then pour the syrup on the cake.
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