French Food Friday - Petite French Yogurt Loaves

Bonjour from a sunny and very warm SW France,

As you know French Yogurt Cake is one of French Boyfriend's favorites and I make it on a regular basis.

I normally make it in a loaf tin but I fancied a change this week and decided to use  my mini loaf tins which I adore. I have used it to make mini banana bread loaves and I am compiling a list of recipes to make so I can get more use out of the tin.

Petite French Yogurt Loaves

Ingredients

• ½ cup plain yogurt or Greek yogurt
• 1 cup granulated sugar
• 3 large eggs
• 1 ½ cups all-purpose flour
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• ½ teaspoon salt
• grated lemon zest from 1 medium-size lemon
• ½ cup sunflower grape seed or canola oil

Instructions

Preheat the oven to 350˚F (175˚C). Spray your mini loaf tins with baking spray, rub inside surface of pan with a paper towel to cover evenly with the spray.   Set aside.

Note if you do not have a mini loaf tins you can use a normal sized loaf tin.

In a large bowl, combine the yogurt, sugar, and eggs - stirring until well blended. Add the flour, baking powder, salt and zest, mixing to just combine. Add the oil and stir well. Don’t worry, at first it will seem to separate, but keep stirring till smooth.

Pour the batter into prepared pan.

Bake for 320-3o minutes (30-40 minutes for a large loaf) or until the cake feels springy to the touch and a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean (every oven is different, so check with the toothpick test rather than the time). Be careful not to over bake though. 

Cool cake on a wire rack for 10 minutes; then turn it out of the pan onto the rack.

bon fin de semaine à tous, Leeann x