Easter Cake Bake: Greek Yoghurt Cake

For me, Easter is a time for traditional cakes. Cakes where you can taste the eggs and butter - all the things that we once would have gone without for Lent. Not that I'm particularly religious, I just like tradition. This is an Australian take on a traditional Greek yoghurt cake, brought you to by the lovely ladies at the Women's Weekly Test Kitchen. You can find the recipe in the 'Foods we love' book. It came out all golden and fluffy, but it's very moist too. I thought about icing it, remembering all the extravagant cakes from last year's Easter Cake Bake. But I decided simple suited me (and this cake) best. We ate it with home-made hot cross buns, on Easter Sunday, with friends. It's my entry to this year's Easter Cake Bake.

Greek Yoghurt Cake

125g butter, softened

1 Cup caster sugar

3 eggs, separated

2 Cups Self Raising flour

1/2 tsp bicarb soda

1/4 Cup finely chopped bloanched almonds

1 Cup yoghurt

Preheat oven to 180C. Lightly grease 20cm x 30cm lamington pan; line base and sides with baking paper.

Beat butter and sugar in small bowl with electric mixer until light and fluffy. Add egg yolks, beat well.

Transfer mixture to large bowl; stir in sifted flour and soda in two batches, then nuts and yoghurt.

Beat egg whites in small bwol with electric mixer until soft peaks form. Gently fold egg whites into yoghurt mixture in two batches. Spread mixture into pan. Bake about 35 minutes. Turn cake onto wire rack to cool; dust with icing sugar if desired.

Orange Easter Cake

While not strictly speaking an Easter cake, clean citrus flavours and pastel colours always seem like Easter to me. This is the sort of old fashioned, Golden-Wattle-Cookbook kind of cake that my grandmother probably cooked. I've submitted it to Julia at 'A Slice of Cherry Pie'. She's hosting an Easter Cake Bake - which is an awesome idea, especially for those of us that don't particularly enjoy Easter Eggs. (oops, did I say that out loud? I hope nobody linches me...)
I guess I'm sort of cheating, because Ryan cooked the cake, and our great friend N chose it, but never mind...

Orange Cake

We ate it in the park with friends, because it's really the last warm weekend before the Canberra winter sets in. I'm not going to post the recipe, because it's published and we didn't modify it at all. But it's in the Women's Weekly favourites book called 'Food We Love'. We loved it too.