French Yogurt Cake Recipe

Name: French Yogurt Cake Recipe
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 35 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 12 slices
Ingredients: 1 cup Yogurt; 2 Teaspoon Baking Powder (*see Notes); 2 cup All Purpose Flour; 1 ½ cup Sugar; 2 Eggs; ¼ cup Oil; Butter (to grease cake pan/mold)

Last updated on July 24, 2019 By Helene Dsouza 27 Comments

French Yogurt Cake is a quick soft cake which you can prepare anytime when you crave a simply delicious cake.

I have made this cake countless times in a square and round mold.

Pick your cake pan shape and let’s make my family’s yogurt cake recipe.

Table of contents

What is the French yogurt cake?
How to make French yogurt cake?
Cake Recipe and Ingredient Variations
Cake Shape
More French cake recipes

What is the French yogurt cake?

The French yogurt cake is probably the easiest cake in the world and is prepared by using cups.

Best part is, that it only requires 6 ingredients.

Traditionally yogurt glass cups were used to measure the ingredients quickly and effortlessly for the cake.

The yogurt in the cake makes the cake fluffy and lends a certain moistness to the cake.

Hence why this cake always turns out perfect every time.

The yogurt cake is better known as Gateau au yaourt in French.

How to make French yogurt cake?

This french yogurt cake is a family recipe and we have been making it since forever.

You can follow the straightforward steps to prepare this cake from scratch within minutes.

The complete recipe instructions with ingredient details can be viewed further below in the printable recipe card.

Step 1

In a mixing bowl add the yogurt, flour, sugar baking powder, eggs, and oil.

Step 2

Combine all the ingredients to a smooth pastry.

Step 3

Bake your simple cake for about 30-35 minutes at 350 Fahrenheit/180 Celsius.

Cake Recipe and Ingredient Variations

You can pep up this cake recipe by switching the plain yogurt with yogurt flavors or yogurt varieties such as:

Vanilla flavored yogurt
Fruit-flavored yogurts
thick Greek or Bulgarian Yogurt or Icelandic skyr yogurt
Non Dairy Yogurts such as coconut milk yogurt or lactose-free
Curds (thick curdled milk)
Kefir fermented yogurt
Homemade Yogurt

Cake Shape

For this yogurt cake recipe, you get to choose which cake shape you would like to use.

I like to use square, rectangular or round BPA-free food save silicon molds.

Square or Rectangular shape: 8 x 3-inch (20 x 7.5 cm) or up to 10 x 5 (25 x 12.5 cm)

Round shape: 8 or 9 inch shape (20 or 22)

I used a 9 inch silicon mold in my video.

However, keep in mind that each cake shape will need baking time adjustment which can vary by 5 minutes.

Especially if you use a larger 10 x 5-inch cake pan and not all ovens are the same.

Keep an eye on your cake and do a test by poking with a knife into the cake when you think it’s done.

If the knife comes back clean, the cake is ready but if it comes back sticky with dough, bake the cake for another 5-10 minutes and repeat the test.

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