Saturday, November 13, 2010

Lemon, Banana & Yogurt Cake!


Should i say i just gotten the hang of taking photos? I placed a table at my balcony, open up all my balcony windows panes and grills early this morning before i went to work and finally i got some really decent photos with my newly bought toys from Daiso Imm : the plates, table mat and the oh so cute forks haha. Well at least they look pretty bright to me better then all my previous pictures that i took in the night under my house lightning they looks so dull!


Anyway enough digressing, this Lemon Banana Yogurt Cake is already beckoning to me early this morning for me to eat them up, top with grape jam these cakes are divinely yummy! but i think they will even taste better warm so if you do try this warm them up first before devouring them! unlike me i gobble them up without warming them haha!

The zesty smell of lemon, fragrance of banana and yogurt makes this cake hard to resist but i still find the texture kinda of dense for my likening maybe perhaps i used oil instead of butter but then its still yummy don't worry too much!





Lemon Banana Yogurt Cake
(adapted from She Eats Bears with slight modifications)

Ingredients
1/3 cup vegetable oil
1/2 cup sugar
4 small ripe bananas, mashed
1 egg
1/2 cup yogurt
Zest if 1 lemon
1/3 cup lemon juice
1 3/4 cups plain flour
2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda

Method
  1. Preheat oven to 180°C. Grease cake pan. (i used a loaf pan)
  2. Mix oil and sugar, incorporate mashed bananas, egg, yogurt, lemon zest and lastly lemon juice until well-combined.
  3. In another bowl, mix together flour, baking powder and baking soda and mix together with batter from step 2 until well-combined.
  4. Pour into prepared pan and bake for 35-45mins or until passed skewer test.
  5. Cool in pan before removing. 

32 comments:

  1. your last four ingredients -- is that a mistake?

    looks tasty!

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  2. Congrats on your new pics.
    Banana and lemon, that's a pretty new combi for me.

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  3. teresa, yeah duplicate ingredients thanks for pointing out to me =)

    Wendy it's really a new combi i only saw a couple of posts on this haha.

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  5. Your photos are lovely... :) I love how the cake are arranged in the plate. Hehe... I am still bad at taking photos...

    The cake looks yummy and great! :)

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  6. hanushi thanks for your compliments i am also bad at taking pictures could you even imagine i bought a new camera because my sony cybershot i giving me really ugly pictures anyway i guess we will get the hang of taking pictures soon! gambette!

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  7. Hey Jess, I am using sony cybershot too (a hand-down by a family friend), I also found it quite hard to use and photos not so nice...

    What camera are you using now, a point-and-shoot one?

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  8. i'm not sure is mine a point and shoot camera but mine is a nikon s4000 and it does take relatively nice pictures in my opinion hope this helps!

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  9. Nice photos! The photo make your Lemon Banana cakes look trully yummy ... :)

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  10. great photos! the natural lighting really do make a diff aye!
    this looks wholesome and delicious...my type of cake. i have a few bananas waiting to go bad so might consider this...but yeah like you i prefer less dense cakes!

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  11. This cake looks delicious! I love yoghurt cakes =) Your cake tin is a really interesting shape!

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  12. thanks vivienne for dropping by! yeah this is good but i prefer fluffier cakes!

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  13. thanks von! yeah i recently added this loaf pan to my pans collection hee!

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  14. Beautiful pictures and the cakes look delicious too,,,!

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  15. Very lovely photos, so as the cake.

    In photography natural light really plays a very important part. I have been baking and cooking in the evening lately, I hate my photos without natural light. If I turn on the flashlight the photo will look like over expose. If I switch it off, the photo is not clear. Sigh.

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  16. Very nice photos...I love your little smiley fork. Your cake has an unique shape...very cute :D

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  17. angel these are my sentiments exactly i get really frustrated when i take my photos in the night!

    zoe, thank you i love the smiley fork alot too!

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  18. hey Jess,

    your pics are getting better. nice attempt on the arrangement in this picture. Maybe you can iron the tablecloth so that it looks neater? just my 2 cents worth. I iron my table cloths sometimes.

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  19. lol bakertan now that u mention i really forgotten to iron was in a hurry to snap then rush off to work thanks for the reminder!

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  20. Beautiful photos and beautiful cakes! I love anything lemony :D

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  21. Sounds like a light refreshing cake.

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  22. tigerfish it does but the texture much denser!

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  23. what a combo!! after pumpkin recipes, now it's chiffon cakes and they're here. I love it

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  24. what a combo!! after pumpkin recipes, now it's chiffon cakes and they're here. I love it

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  25. thanks vivienne for dropping by! yeah this is good but i prefer fluffier cakes!

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  26. hey Jess,

    your pics are getting better. nice attempt on the arrangement in this picture. Maybe you can iron the tablecloth so that it looks neater? just my 2 cents worth. I iron my table cloths sometimes.

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  27. your last four ingredients -- is that a mistake?

    looks tasty!

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