This easy to make berry and lemon loaf cake contains yogurt which makes it soft and deliciously moist.
Loaf cakes are fantastic when you want to concentrate on the flavour. This one is made with yogurt and flavoured with berries and lemon zest.
I do love a good loaf cake! With a loaf cake you can concentrate on the flavour rather than hiding everything under a pile of sugar laden decorations. I’d far rather have two slices of a loaf cake with my coffee or tea than one covered in sugary icing and buttercream. For more loaf cake inspiration try my sticky orange marmalade loaf cake, with a marmalade glaze.
The cake contains yogurt, and the butter is replaced with oil, so not only is it easy to mix by hand, it has a lovely soft moist crumb that slices without crumbling and it will keep in an airtight tin for a good few days.
This recipe is loosely based on the French yogurt cake – AKA the easiest cake in the world, which uses 1 pot of yogurt, 2 of flour, 1 of sugar, 1/2 of oil and 3 eggs. Easy to remember and easy to make with those little individual glass pots that French yogurt comes in.
For my version I used the new, and very delicious, limited edition Coconut flavour from Onken, cut down the sugar, added some berries and lemon for extra flavour. Delicious! I used frozen berries, but fresh would work as well. The trick to distributing them evenly throughout the batter is to simply, put a third of the batter into the tin, add the berries, mix then pour the rest of the batter into the tin, the berries will still sink a little, but into the plain batter. Forget all the tricks such as dusting with flour, which don’t work, and do it this way.
Loaf cakes are fantastic when you want to concentrate on the flavour. This one is made with yogurt and flavoured with berries and lemon zest.
- 250 g plain flour
- 125 g golden caster sugar
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp salt
- 240 g yogurt (Onken Coconut)
- 240 ml vegetable oil
- 3 eggs
- 100 g frozen soft fruit
- 1 lemon - zest
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Preheat oven to 180°C/350°F/Gas mark 4.
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Mix flour, sugar, baking powder and salt in a large mixing bowl.
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Add yogurt, eggs, oil and lemon zest and fold the mixture together.
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Line and grease a 2lb loaf tin, and pour in about 1/3 of the batter.
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Add the frozen fruit to the remaining batter, and fold in. Pour the batter into the loaf tin. This will stop all the fruit sinking to the bottom.
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Bake for 50 minutes until a toothpick or skewer comes out clean. You may need to lightly cover the cake with foil half way through cooking to stop the top burning.
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Allow to cool for a few minutes before removing the cake from the loaf tin.
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This sounds delicious! I love the classic French yogurt cake–SO easy to throw together. Using the coconut yogurt from Onken sounds like a great swap!
I love yogurt cake, so moist, and so delicious. It is the base for so many recipes.
I’m a big fan of using yogurt in baking, and I LOVE the idea of using coconut-flavored yogurt for a loaf cake. I like coconut flavor, but I’m not a big fan of the texture of it in my baking, so this is like the best of both worlds! Gorgeous cake. Pinning, so I can give this a try.
I know what you mean about texture. The yogurt is so delicious and ideal for a bake
I’m not familiar with Onken brand yogurt (perhaps not available here in the States) but the cake looks delicious! I love yogurt in baked goods – such a delicious texture.
I need to bake with yogurt more often. It always gives a good result.
Love how the yoghurt gives the loaf a moist texture plus the coconut flavor with berries is awesome!
yogurt is such a good ingredient.
Love the coconut flavor of the yogurt, it really makes the bread moist and soft!
I love baking with yogurt. So delicious.
Looks delicious! Coconut yogurt is really good.
it is so good!
This sounds like a wonderful cake, must look out for coconut Onken as I do love their yogurts. Great tip for distributing the fruit too:-)
I love the Onken yogurts, so creamy and delicious
I love a good old loaf cake too, brilliant with a cuppa. I’m also a big fan of yoghurt cakes, I will have to give it a go with Onken to add some coconut flavour too.
I think a loaf cake is so much nicer than something covered with icing.
I love coconut! The loaf looks so moist and ready to be accompanied with a hot drink at breaktimes!
it is perfect with a hot drink. I do love a loaf cake.
Helen, WOW – this loaf cake sounds and looks wonderful! So loving your addition of yogurt – the cake/loaf looks so moist!
It certainly is moist. I love the texture you get from baking with yogurt.
Just wondering if you defrost the fruit or just add it still frozen to the mix?
Add it from frozen. I’ll amend the recipe.