Bake Along #32 - Everyday Yoghurt Cake With Orange & Cranberries

After reading many reviews about this cake from friends from Bake Along, I decided to tweak the recipe a little to avoid getting a cake I wouldn't enjoy


I baked this cake last night and took this pic around 15 minutes after out from the oven

Can you see the juicy orange and cranberries? :)

The pictures below were taken this afternoon... the texture of the cake was better surprisingly!

The recipe is from the book Cake Keeper Cakes by Lauren Chattmen

What you need:
(below is half recipe with slight adjustment I made)

1 cup plain flour
100g caster sugar
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/8 tsp baking soda
1/8 tsp salt
plain low fat yoghurt added with 1 tbsp + 1 tsp fresh orange juice to make 1/2 cup
40ml canola oil
1 large egg
1 tsp orange zest

For the fruit topping:
25g unsalted butter
100g fresh cranberries
6 tbsps caster sugar
cut fresh orange pulp - peel the thin skin layer, from 1 orange

First, grease bottom and sides of the pan, line and grease
Then make the fruit topping:

1. Melt butter on a non stick pan over medium low heat, add sugar and cook til sugar dissolved
2. Add in cranberries and stir to coat, simmer and stir occasionally for around 3 minutes til cranberries pop
3. Spread on the prepared pan

Now make the cake:

1. Preheat oven to 180degC
2. Sieve together flour, sugar, baking powder and soda, salt
3. Whisk together yoghurt mixture, oil, eggs and orange zest
4. Pour yoghurt mixture into the flour mixture and stir til just moistened (do not over stir)
5. Scoop batter on top of the fruits topping, spread evenly
6. Bake about 30 minutes til tester skewer comes out clean, cake is golden
7. Cool in the pan for 5 minutes, invert on wire rack, then turn right side up on rack to cool completely

Yes, I agree, this is not a light and airy cake, it's a dense cake.But thanks to the cranberries mixture which has butter content, and added with the juicy oranges, while the cake is dense, but it's soft and moist, really nice!

Below are other bakers baking this cake, as well as the hosts: Joyce, Lena and Zoe