This delicious, not overly sweet Strawberry Yogurt Cake is the perfect spring and summer snack, dessert or even breakfast! With just a few simple ingredients it is a breeze to throw together. A tasty treat the whole family will love!
This delightful Strawberry Yogurt is one of my favorite spring and summer treats to make for my family. It could not be easier to make and comes out beautifully moist every time thanks to the yogurt and olive oil.
While you can chop and mix the strawberries directly into the batter, I prefer arranging them on the top for a beautiful presentation. Dust with a little powdered sugar and serve! It makes a fantastic dessert, snack or even breakfast. Enjoy!
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Equipment
For this recipe you will need:
- Mixing bowls: These glass nesting mixing bowls by Pyrex of my favorite kitchen staple.
- Whisk: I love this balloon whisk by Oxo.
- Round cake pan: This 9 inch Oxo Cake tin works great!
- Lemon zester: If you don't have a zester or grater you and finely slice and mince some lemon peel. But I recommend this Oxo zester.
Ingredients
- All purpose flour
- Salt
- Baking soda
- Lemon: You need both the zest and juice.
- White granulated sugar
- Eggs: Ideally at room temperature.
- Yogurt: I highly recommend using full fat Greek or cream top yogurt for the best texture and flavor.
- Olive oil: I personally love using olive oil for this recipe but you can use vegetable oil if you prefer.
- Vanilla extract
- Fresh strawberries: You'll need about a half pint of strawberries for this recipe. About 12-16 strawberries total depending on their size.
- Powdered sugar (optional): I like serving this cake dusted with powdered sugar.
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Start by combining all of the dry ingredients and whisking together.
In a separate bowl combine lemon zest and sugar and pinch together. Whenever baking with lemon I highly recommend pinching some lemon zest together with the sugar before incorporating the other ingredients. This help release the oils and fragrance and infuses the cake with lemon flavor.
Then, to the bowl with the sugar add lemon juice, eggs, olive oil, vanilla and yogurt. Whisk until well combined.
Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients in 2 batches and whisk until not white streaks of flour remaining (no need to use an electric mixer).
Prepare a round cake pan with butter and flour then pour in the batter.
Wash strawberries and slice in half. Then arrange in a pattern of your choosing on top of the batter before baking.
All the cake to cool completely before serving. Sprinkle with a little powdered sugar and top with a dollop of honeyed yogurt or whipped cream if desired.
Serving Suggestions
I love serving this yogurt cake dusted with a little powdered sugar with some fresh strawberries and a dollop of fresh whipped cream or some honeyed yogurt.
Substitutions
- If you don't like the taste of olive oil you can substitute with vegetable oil or another light tasting oil.
- You can use other berries besides strawberries if you prefer. Blueberries, blackberries and raspberries will all work well.
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Made this Strawberry Yogurt Cake recipe? Let me know what you think in the comments!
Recipe
Strawberry Yogurt Cake
Equipment
- Mixing bowls
- Measuring cups and spoons
- round 9 inch cake pan
- whisk
Ingredients
- 1.5 cups all purpose flour
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- ¾ cup white granulated sugar
- 1 lemon, zest and juice
- 2 eggs room temperature
- ⅓ cup extra virgin olive oil can substitute with vegetable oil
- 1 cup full fat, plain yogurt unsweetened
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- ½ pint strawberries (about 12-16 total depending on size)
- powdered sugar optional, for dusting
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Prepare a 9 inch round cake pan with parchment paper (if desired) and grease with a little butter and flour. Wash strawberries and cut in half. Set aside.
- In a mixing bowl add flour, salt and baking soda. Whisk together until well combined. Set aside.
- In a separate bowl combine sugar and lemon zest. Use your fingers to pinch the lemon zest into the sugar for a minute or so until fragrant and well incorporated. In that same bowl add eggs and whisk together. Then add lemon juice, olive oil, yogurt and vanilla extract. Whisk until well combined.
- Add about half of the dry mixture to the wet mixture and whisk together. Then add the remaining dry mixture and whisk until there are no more white streaks. Pour the batter into the prepared cake pan. Then top with halved strawberries. Bake at 350 degrees F for 35-40 minutes until a toothpick inserted into the middle comes out clean.
- Remove the cake from the oven and cool on a wire rack. Allow the cake to cool completely, then dust with a little powdered sugar and serve. Enjoy!
Nutrition
Sara
Can I substitute coconut flour for this?
Grace
Tasted Great. Interesting texture.
jamjarkitchen
Hi Grace - Glad you enjoyed it!
Monika
Followed this exactly and it kinda turned into a weird dense cheesecake consistency at the end. I've baked many many many cakes and this one has left me perplexed.
jamjarkitchen
Hi Monika- hmm, I've made this cake many times and have never had an issue with its crumb consistency. Did you make an ingredient substitutions?
Friederike Tretrop
Delicious - so easy to make.
Julie Dunham
Can I substitute whole vanilla yogurt.
jamjarkitchen
Hi! You can substitute whole vanilla yogurt, but keep in mind that most vanilla yogurts are sweetened, so it will make the cake a bit sweeter. If you’d like to balance that out, you can reduce the sugar slightly, but I wouldn’t cut it all the way or the cake may not set up properly.
Jennifer Cheplick
The recipe turned out just as pictured and tasted delicious. I would love to see the nutrition profile, i.e. protein and calories per serving.
jamjarkitchen
Hi Jennifer - I'm so glad you enjoyed the recipe! I am actually in the process of adding nutritional information to all of the recipes. I just went and updated this one so it should be in the recipe card now. 🙂
Jileen
I made two of these for Mother's Day. Delicious!! My husband usually hates anything with lemon zest but it was a yummy accent instead of being the star of the show... which made the strawberries even yummier! I will make this again! Easy ingredients. Easy instructions.
jamjarkitchen
I'm so glad y'all liked the recipe! This is one of my family's favorites.:-)
Anita Harris
I made this for company, and they really liked it. I used nonfat plain Greek yogurt. However, it's VERY lemon-forward, so the next time I might dial back the zest or use a smaller lemon. Also, I baked it in a 9"springform pan, making it very easy to serve. I may have underbaked it by a few minutes, which resulted in a denser interior. I really enjoyed it!
jamjarkitchen
Hi Anita- Thanks for the feeback! Yes, it definitely does have some lemon flavor so I can totally understand wanting to dial that back for next time. But I'm happy y'all enjoyed it!
Juliet Buckle
Love, love, love this recipe! I was skeptic WL about cooking strawberries, as usually I leave them raw for gateaux, but this was a revelation - not too sweet, moist, delicious!
jamjarkitchen
Thank you so much! So glad you enjoyed the recipe! 🙂