Lemon Curd Yogurt Cake with Blueberries
Posted on September 8, 2015 by nerinatimm in baked goods
Lemon Curd Yogurt cake with a tang so potent, it lingers in your cheeks for a while until you bite into the sweet blueberries and all is well!
When I got 4 huge goose eggs as a present last week, I had a few recipe in my head. Pasta, a poached goose egg on sourdough bread, chocolate brownies (which I’ve heard is even more decadent when made with goose eggs) and a pound cake of some sorts. I could just imagine how yellow the yolk of a goose eggs will make the vanilla cake batter. I had some Fairview Yogurt in the fridge, lemons in my fruit basket and slowly but surely my plan unfolded.
So my Lemon Curd Yogurt Cake with Blueberries came to be. Nothing could prepare me for the rich, velvety texture of the Lemon Curd Yogurt Cake, it was almost like a cheesecake consistency, not at all what I had planned, but it worked for me and it was delicious.
The other contributing factor to the cake’s texture was the addition of lemon curd. ( more eggs I suppose) All I wanted to do was to get rid of the half jar of lemon curd in the fridge. Needless to say, the proof was in the pudding (cake) and it was really good.
Lemon Curd Yogurt Cake
makes 1 x 23 cm cake
Ingredients
For the cake
175 g butter – softened, but not melted
100 ml Fairview Full Fat Yogurt
45 ml lemon curd – if you do not have, add 45 ml Greek Yogurt extra
1 goose egg of 3 hen eggs
390 ml (200g) self raising flour
120 ml caster sugar
zest and juice of 1 big lemon
pinch of salt
For the icing
500 icing sugar
juice of 1 big lemon
To serve
fresh mint
250 ml blueberries
Greek yogurt
Method
Preheat oven to 180 C. Line a 23 cm cake tin with baking paper. Place all the ingredients for the cake in your mixer and mix until the batter comes together – do not over mix.Place in the oven for 50 min – 1 hour. Cool the cake in the tin.
When ready to serve, mix the icing sugar with the lemon juice until all the lumps our out and pour over the cake. Place the blueberries on the cake, decorate with sprigs of mint and serve with greek yogurt.
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Hi Nina, this look great. Please help me out of my confusion. Where do I find greek yogurt or is there another name for it because I’ve looked all over in the big stores and cannot find it. What is the difference between greek yogurt, Bulgarian yogurt (can also no longer find – everybody refers me to double cream). Are these in fact all the same?
Regards
Marinka
Marinka, I was also looking for Greek yogurt a while ago. They seem to call it double-thick yogurt (if I remember correctly) at PnP and Woolworths. Perhaps they are not allowed to call it Greek yogurt anymore? (Nina, please correct me if I am wrong)
You are absolutely right. Greek and Double Fat or Thick yogurt is the same thing.