This winter, I got a new Seb yoghurt-maker that also allows me to prepare dairy desserts as well as cakes. By experimenting with a few of the recipes given with the device and changing some of the ingredients, I stumbled upon a very simple recipe to make tasty cakes with many declinations, depending on what you have at hand and what you like. To be quite blunt, I fell in love with it a few weeks ago and I always keep all the ingredients needed to do it at hand, so that I always have some cake ready to close my meals. Hereafter, you will find a very quick to bake recipe, adapted to the oven.

Preparation time : 5 minutes
Baking time : 20 minutes

Ingredients:
– 1 plain yogurt (keep the pot to measure the rest of the ingredients)
– 1 ripe banana
– 50g chocolate chips
– 2 eggs
– 1 pot of fine semolina pot
– 3/4 pot of sugar
– 1/2 pot of light taste oil (sunflower, peanut)
– 1 package of baking powder

Preheat the oven at 180ºC (thermostat 6).

In a big bowl, squash the banana. Mix it in order to get a smooth paste, then add the eggs and mix some more. Add the yogurt, the oil, and blend it all.

In another bowl, put the rest of the ingredients – semolina, chocolate, sugar and baking powder -, mix them as well.

Mix them little by little in the liquid elements, stir well. Pour in an oiled cake dish and bake in the oven for about 20 minutes, until the cake is browned. This cake as to stay a little bit wet, so look after its color while carefully respecting the cooking temperature. Serve with plain yogurt.

To go further
Here are some ideas to modify the recipe, to experiment with in order to spice things up – adapt this recipe by only removing banana and chocolate chips, except if said otherwise.
– use a flavored yogurt instead of a plain one
– add one or two tablespoons of jam – while removing some of the cake’s sugar
– serve the cake plain, only covered with some liquid caramel, pudding style
– rehydrate raisins in rhum, and add half a cap of rhum to the paste, like rum baba
– rehydrate some small dry apricot pieces, add to the paste with some roasted flaked almonds
– do a marble cake by adding chocolate to half of the paste, and vanilla to the rest
– only add one banana, like banana bread
– ad a banana and some grated coconut
– add juice and zest from a lemon, with poppy seeds
– add juice and zest from an orange, with cinnamon

Also published on Medium.

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