Does Yoghurt Cake Work with a Pot of Joy?
We want to start off this blog with a shout out to one of our favourites: Condiment Claire.
Claire is well known on #foodtok and is a great source of fun and inspiration when it comes to unique and interesting food creations. We credit Claire with the inspo for today’s blog - a variation of her classic Yoghurt Cake recipe. Claire made the Yoghurt cake recipe famous on TikTok. It’s where you use yoghurt and the yoghurt pot to measure out all your ingredient and produce a delicious moist cake!
You can check out here version here:
We’re going to try a variation of this but rather than using the classic yoghurt pot… we’re going to use a Cadbury’s Pot of Joy! This doesn’t have the same texture or viscosity of yoghurt but we think it could be pretty tasty and really it just intrigued us… so why not try it y’know! You can check out our attempt below:
Basically, the way you want to do this is to weigh everything in a yoghurt pot, whether it’s a half a cup or a full cup, bigger or smaller - it doesn’t matter too much as you use the yoghurt pot as your standard of measure.
We’ve taken this premise and rather than using the typical yoghurt pot we’re trying it with a Pot of Joy - a Cadbury’s favourite. We were pretty intrigued to see if this would work as a Pot of Joy isn’t your standard yoghurt - it’s got that different texture and has way more sugar.
Therefore, we decided to reduce the sugar needed in the recipe to compensate for the Pot of Joy.
If you want to follow along properly the recipe is linked below! Also, before we forget - if you know a baker and want to make their life 100x better - you need to get them a mini spatula! Life changing.
As you can see if you watched above:
We started off cracking an egg and mixing our sugar together
Then we added some vegetable oil.
Zested some clementine
A splash of vanilla
Some baking powder
A dollop of flour
Then our Pot of Joy
At this point we were debating whether it would be worth adding some ground almonds for that lil bit of crunch!
We then mixed it all together
Then we thought that choccy chips would have been a GREAT shout alas we held off.
We added the mixture into our cake tin and it was looking pretty good!
Pop it into the oven for 40 minutes.
And here we have the finished product - it looked on the outset pretty fantastic. It’s warm and the texture is squishy and moist - one of the things we’ve noticed about the yoghurt cakes is that they are just so MOIST! Oh gosh and the chocolate orange smelt so good too.
The Verdict:
Overall, the texture and the moistness were fantastic! Exactly what we were looking for but the taste was just a little disappointing. It just wasn’t chocolatey enough - not chocolatey enough AT ALL. On reflection we think it definitely could have done with some chocolate chips or maybe just go back to the normal yoghurt cake recipe and add some cocoa powder with the yoghurt.
Don’t get us wrong - it’s nice - it just could of been better.
At any rate - we really enjoyed making it. It’s a fun way to make a cake and there are so many possibilities that you could play around with. We’re thinking a marble cake next time. If you’ve had a go at this, we would love to know how you got on in the comments. Till next time.
Full recipe below:
Ingredients:
1 cup (250g) plain yoghurt
2 levelled cups (250g) plain flour
1/2 cup (100g) caster sugar
1/2 cup (80g) vegetable oil
2 eggs at room temp
2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp vanilla essence
1 pinch salt
Instructions:
Preheat the oven to 180C° and place the rack in the middle position
Grease a 9x5x2.5 inch loaf pan with oil/ butter and grease proof paper
Mix eggs and sugar, then add oil, vanilla essence and mix again. Add yoghurt and mix it into a smooth consistency. All in one bowl
Whisk flour, baking powder and a pinch of salt together and add to the wet batter until just combined.
Pop mixture into the lined cake pan
Bake for about 35-40 minutes, until a skewer inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean.
When the cake is done, remove it from the oven and place on a wire rack to cool