Yogurt Chocolate Cake Recipes

CHOCOLATE YOGURT CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a 9-inch cake pan.
• Whisk together yogurt, sugar, oil, eggs, coffee, and vanilla extract in a bowl. Add flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, cinnamon, baking soda, salt, and nutmeg; whisk until air bubbles form in the batter. Pour batter into the prepared cake pan.
• Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, 50 to 60 minutes. Cool on a wire rack for 15 minutes. Run a table knife around the edges to loosen. Invert carefully onto a serving plate or cooling rack. Serve warm or at room temperature.

GREEK YOGURT CHOCOLATE CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
• Sift flour, cocoa powder, and salt together in a bowl. Mix sugar, water, eggs, Greek yogurt, and vanilla extract together in another bowl using an electric mixer.
• Gradually add the flour-cocoa mixture into the bowl with the yogurt mixture. Mix until well blended. Pour batter into two 9-inch cake pans.
• Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the centers comes out clean, 30 to 35 minutes.

DARK CHOCOLATE YOGURT CAKE

Steps:

• 1. Preheat oven to 350'F. Grease a 8.5x3.5 loaf pan.
• 2. In a large bowl, sift in flour, cocoa powder and baking powder. Add in salt, sugar. Stir to mix well.
• 3. Then, add in all the wet ingredients: yogurt, eggs, coffee and oil. Use a whisk and whisk everything together until blended.
• 4. Pour into the prepared loaf pan and bake for 50 minutes or until toothpick inserted in middle comes out clean. Cool in pan for 5 minutes before taking it out to cool completely on wire rack.

YOGURT CHOCOLATE CAKE

Steps:

• In a saucepan, melt together butter, oil, water and cocoa powder.
• In a large bowl, mix together all the dry ingredients. Now pour over the wet mixture, and stir well.
• Add eggs and yogurt, and stir well again.
• Pour mixture into a greased 12x8 inch baking pan or glass pyrex dish. This is a single layer cake, but Im sure you could use two 8" cake tins.
• Bake at 180 deg C for 30 minutes.
• Icing: Mix all ingredients together with a small amount of milk. Pour over cake immediately.

CHOCOLATE YOGURT CHEESECAKE

Steps:

• Prepare YOGURT CHEESE (recipe follows).
• Preheat oven to 300°F.
• Sprinkle graham cracker crumbs on the bottom of a 8-inch springform pan.
• In medium bowl with whisk, gently mix yogurt cheese, sugar, cocoa and cornstarch until well blended.
• Add eggs, vanilla and almond extract; stir until blended.
• Pour into prepared pan.
• Bake in oven for 55 to 60 minutes or until edges are set.
• Remove from oven to cooling rack.
• Cool 30 minutes at room temperature.
• With knife, loosen cake from side of pan.
• Refrigerate before serving.
• Garnish with fruit, if desired.
• YOGURT CHEESE: Line non-rusting colander or sieve with large piece of double thickness cheesecloth or large coffee filter; place colander over deep bowl.
• Spoon yogurt into prepared colander; cover with plastic wrap.
• Refrigerate until liquid no longer drains from yogurt, about 24 hours.
• Remove yogurt from cheesecloth; discard liquid.

CHOCOLATE YOGURT CAKE

Steps:

• Put oven rack in middle position and preheat oven to 350°F. Generously butter pan, then dust with cocoa powder, knocking out excess.
• Whisk together flour, 2/3 cup cocoa, baking powder, salt, and baking soda in a bowl. Whisk yogurt with water and vanilla in another bowl. Beat 3/4 stick butter with sugar in a large bowl using an electric mixer at medium speed until light and fluffy. Add eggs 1 at a time, beating after each addition. Reduce speed to low and add half of flour mixture. Add yogurt mixture, then remaining flour mixture, mixing until just combined.
• Transfer batter to pan and bake until a skewer inserted into center comes out clean, about 1 hour. Cool in pan on a rack 15 minutes, then turn out onto rack to cool completely.

CHOCOLATE YOGURT CAKE

Steps:

• Heat oven to 180C (160C for fan)
• Line a large loaf tin with baking parchment
• In a large bowl, beat together the oil, yogurt, syrup, eggs and sugar
• Sift the flour, cococa, baking powder and salt into the bowl, and stir until smooth
• Pour the mixture into the tin and bake for around 1- 1 1/4 hours
• If the cake colours too quickly, cover with foil after 30 minutes cooking.
• Test with a skewer - do not overcook
• VARIATIONS.
• The recipe can be turned into a coconut cake by replacing the cocoa with dessicated coconut. Ginger cake can be made by replacing the cocoa with extra flour, use brown sugar instead of caster and treacle instead of syrup and add 2 teaspoons of ground ginger and 1/2 of mixed spice.