Milk and Cookies' Orange yoghurt cake
Oh. Food porn is no good.
I have to admit I have been cooking more often than the usual, since I started this blog. So often, in fact, that I now purposedly oblige myself not to, when it's a day when I'm not in charge for diner. If I'm counting right, five of the last dishes I cooked came from fellow bloggers - minus a delicious raspberry sherbet I will write about later.
I knew I would be making Jenjen's cake as soon as I saw it's picture. I bake yoghurt cakes every once in awhile, but mine tend to be on the (very) heavy side. I figured trying out recipes from other food obsessed people would be interesting. Now, about the results...
I thought there would be too much sugar for the batter but it was perfect. Same thing with the zest - the whole house smelled terrific - although I will probably cut it down to one orange and a half to work with next time. The texture was half cake-ish on the sides and flan-like in the middle, like my previous yoghurt cakes. I think I overworked it to get rid of the lumps... I'll have to watch out. I'm thinking of replacing the regular flour by the self-raising kind, and add an extra teaspoon of baking powder (instead of the required two).
But all in all, it was very tasty. Excellent with a side of yoghurt.
I have to admit I have been cooking more often than the usual, since I started this blog. So often, in fact, that I now purposedly oblige myself not to, when it's a day when I'm not in charge for diner. If I'm counting right, five of the last dishes I cooked came from fellow bloggers - minus a delicious raspberry sherbet I will write about later.
I knew I would be making Jenjen's cake as soon as I saw it's picture. I bake yoghurt cakes every once in awhile, but mine tend to be on the (very) heavy side. I figured trying out recipes from other food obsessed people would be interesting. Now, about the results...
I thought there would be too much sugar for the batter but it was perfect. Same thing with the zest - the whole house smelled terrific - although I will probably cut it down to one orange and a half to work with next time. The texture was half cake-ish on the sides and flan-like in the middle, like my previous yoghurt cakes. I think I overworked it to get rid of the lumps... I'll have to watch out. I'm thinking of replacing the regular flour by the self-raising kind, and add an extra teaspoon of baking powder (instead of the required two).
But all in all, it was very tasty. Excellent with a side of yoghurt.
posted by dumoria at 16:22
2 Comments:
Hello, I thought of some other suggestions in addition to the ones I replied to on my comments, possibly using a cake flour (less gluten) will help in making the cake fluffier. Mine was dense, although not flan-like in the middle so possibly using a 'lighter' flour might do the trick.
Ah, I see. I couldn't figure out the texture in the picture. Thanks for the advice, I'll try it out.
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