I love having Wednesdays off work – I always seem to get more done when I am home by myself. I felt like baking and Mr 18 requested an apple cake recipe. I made a family favourite – Apple Yoghurt Cake. This apple recipe is low fat – it does not include butter or oil. It uses a small quantity of yoghurt. The cake is light with a delicate texture. It never lasts long …..
We originally discovered this recipe over at Little Busy Bee nearly 4 years ago, and have been making it ever since.
Apple Cake Recipe
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Apple Yoghurt Cake is a low fat recipe that uses yoghurt in place of butter or oils. Decorated with apple pieces and glazed with apricot jam, it is delicious.
Author: Lisa
Recipe type: Cakes
Cuisine: Baking
Serves: 12
Ingredients
- 3 apples
- ½ teaspoon lemon zest and 2 tablespoons lemon juice
- 4 eggs
- 175 g (3/4 cup) sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- pinch of salt
- 75 g (1/3 cup) plain yoghurt
- 250 g (1 cup) plain (all purpose) flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 2 tablespoons Apricot jam
Instructions
- Grease a round spring form baking pan (10 inch/26 cm ) and pre-heat the oven 175° C (about 350 F) .
- Peel and slice the apples into eighths. Sprinkle with 2 tablespoons lemon juice.
- In a large mixing bowl beat the eggs, sugar, vanilla extract, lemon zest and a pinch of salt for about 8 minutes on medium speed until creamy and fluffy. Mix in yoghurt. Mix flour and baking powder and fold into the mixture until just combined. Pour into pan. Add apples pressing them gently into the batter. Bake for approx. 45 minutes or until cooked.
- Heat the jam and spread it over the hot cake. Cool.
If you enjoyed our apple cake recipe, check out these apple recipes:
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| Apple Crumble Slice |
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| Home Made Apple Sauce |
What a tasty looking cake! Glad you enjoyed your day off! 🙂
Mhhhmm, this cake looks and sounds very tasty!
Maybe I wil try it at the weekend!
ANNi
this cake looks sooo goood.
Yummy looking cake. I like yoghurt cake, so I must try this version. Thank you for sharing it. Best wishes, Pj x
This apple cake looks good…can’t wait to try it out..thank you for sharing the recipe…happy Sunday with love Janice
I tried making it – but I think my eggs were a bit too large – it was really dense
I tried it with soja yoghurt. But mite baked it to long. Want even dryer then old bread.
Mite try again tomorow
I baked this cake right now and so yummy! Thank you for sharing your recipe with us!
No butter ???????…..
That is correct Marie – it uses yoghurt instead so is a low fat cake. It has a really light texture. We have made it a number of times and it is great when you want some cake without the calories/fat.
very delicious cake. I also make more cakes from your Website. I am never disappointed with any of your recipes. I also used the exact the direction as written. Thank you so much .
Thanks Anita!
This looks delicious. Just a quick question, can I the plain yogurt for Greek yogurt? I have a tub of Greek yogurt sitting in the fridge and I’m looking for ways to finish it lol
Greek yoghurt should work well in this recipe! Happy baking.
Can I use low-fat sour cream. I’m out of my yoghurt? Just ran out & would like to try this yummy looking cake.
Hi Irene – I am sure sour cream would work just as well! Happy baking!
what should I do if I want to use 2eggs instead of 4 eggs? can i use more yoghurt?
thk u,
I wouldn’t change the eggs and it will affect the cake. Best to find a recipe that uses only 2 eggs.
I have made this cake many times and its amaizing, fluffy, tasty, low in fats. The best!
One time I tried with strawberry jam, I was out of abrico jam.