I have been hankering for something delicious and lemony!
Combined with some yoghurt that needed to be used and inspired by this recipe, I baked a lemon yoghurt cake.
It is dense, moist and very zingy. I really like it and so did the kids!
If you are familiar with orange almond cake, the texture is a bit similar even though it’s made differently.
If you can’t get fine polenta, just process regular polenta a little first in the food processor so your cake isn’t too ‘crunchy’!
If you are dairy free, you can try it with coconut yoghurt and coconut oil, but I can’t make any guarantees.
As usual, I love feedback, so let me know if you make it and how you go. Send me a photo on Facebook!
Lemon Yoghurt Cake
Vital Stats: Gluten free, Refined sugar free
Okay, so this is what you need:
1 1/2 cups organic almonds (or almond meal)
1/2 cup fine organic polenta
1/4 cup tapioca flour
1/2 tspn bicarbonate of soda
3 organic eggs
Juice and zest of one organic lemon
3/4 cup organic coconut or rapadura sugar
125g organic butter, cubed and softened
3/4 cup organic greek yoghurt
Okay, this is how you do it:
Preheat the oven to 170° celsius and line a round, deep cake tin with non-toxic baking paper.
Thermomix:Â
Whack the almonds in thermy and blitz speed 7 for 10-15 seconds to make almond meal.
Throw in the rest of your ingredients and mix, speed 5 for 20-30 seconds until all ingredients are well combined and the batter looks smooth.
Fling into the cake tin and into the oven for 45 minutes or until cooked through. Cool on a wire rack and use a serrated knife to cut. It can be eaten slightly warm.
Non-thermomix:
Use almond meal and process all ingredients in a food processor until combined.
HOT TIP: This is delicious served with cream, custard or more yoghurt. If you can’t get fine polenta, give it a whizz in the thermomix or food processor before you start.
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This looks amazing! I so want to make it for my birthday on Friday but Gabriel can’t have corn what would you recommend I swap polenta for? No rice either. Thanks Mx
extra almond meal would be what I would try 🙂
MMMMmmmmm cake…This sounds delicious!
Lemon and yoghurt are a match made in heaven and this recipe is right up my alley!
Yum. On my “to make” list.
Lovely and moist. I made the following changes: desiccated coconut (instead of polenta), honey for the sweetness and finally 1/2 cup hazelnut meal and 1 cup almond meal as at times all almond meal as the main ” flour” ends up a bit marzipan tasting. Or maybe that’s just me being fussy!!
Oh I like your tweaks thanks Liz – will have to try those too 🙂
Just made this recipe into 12 cupcakes. I substituted the sugar for maple syrup and the polenta for buckwheat flour… Then I added an additional 20g of millet flour. Delicious thank you, and a hit with the kids.
Loving your tweaks too Kate!! 🙂
Hi, can I use spelt?
you could give it a try, but I haven’t tried it, so I am not sure 🙂
This looks and sounds delish, I might make them for the kids as little muffins. That should work just as well shouldn’t it ?
thanks for your great recipes.
Hey Lara, yes a reader said she made them as muffins and they were great – less cooking time of course 🙂
This sounds delicious! My newborn and I both have thrush at the moment so trying to limit sugar and yeast..but could I have this cake??
Hey Jean, yes, but swap out the sugar to xylitol or stevia instead of rapadura sugar. They work differently in the body and don’t exacerbate thrush 🙂
Thanks for that!
I am planning on making this today, it sounds delicious! If all goes well I will be making it for a friends baby shower. My question, do you think a cream cheese frosting (or similar) would go ok with this? She is borderline gestational diabetes so trying to keep as much sugar out as possible. Thanks
Hi Rachel, yes cream cheese frosting would be delicious! Just pop a little honey or orange juice in it to sweeten slightly if you think you need it.
Hi Sonia, I just came by to see if you have any posts on cooking in the thermomix plastic components (or tupperware cooking items, which I presume are the same, though I haven’t really looked into them.
I am looking into the thermomix, but I have always been put off by the varoma, steaming basket etc all being made of plastic. Have you done research on this? what’s your view?