Chocolate Yogurt Cake … deliciously healthy!
“A falta de pan, buenas son tortas.
If there’s no bread, cakes will do.”
Spanish proverb
Spanish proverb
There was a time when I had my fixed list of things to bake, & everyone was pretty satisfied & happy. I would bake brownies, then oatmeal cookies, then muffins,then a pound cake, chocolate chip cookies, lemon cake…& so on back to brownies. This loop continued until around September 2007. Then suddenly one day my browser accidentally stumbled into Jugalbandi. I couldn’t for the love of me figure out what it was all about, but I suddenly found ‘real’ recipes, beautiful pictures, & people who could talk to each other. Yes, I had been living under a rock all along. 
I hung around from time to time, clicked on unsuspecting links & reached other blogs! Goodness, there was a whole world waiting to be discovered. Then one fine day I mustered up the courage & secretly made my own blog. The hub was let in a few days later, & he was so proud that I had my own place on the web!! 
Now, of course, everything’s changed. We have exuberant bloggers, active, enthusiastic, supportive, hilarious , talented people; each willing to open up their world to others from time to time, share their mastered recipes, give out heirloom secrets & generally enjoy this virtual world. One wish…I wish I had more time! 
Something else changed too. I’m now on a ‘try everything at least once’ route & the family has never had it soooo good! It adds great variety to the table, snack box & quality of life. Earlier the family was happy; now they are ecstatic, & checking the fridge for desserts ever so often!! LOL!! Ever since the colours on my blog changed, I’ve gone into a chocolate overdrive. This after swearing that I wouldn’t do any more chocolate for a while. But than again, life’s so unpredictabe! 
Saw this Chocolate Yogurt Cake at AK Mom’s blog @ What’s Baking, & it’s been on my mind for long. It sounded healthy & full of yogurt (1 1/2 cups) & looked really, really nice & moist. With no snack in the house the other day, I grabbed the opportunity to try something new. The cake came out really nice & chocolaty & with a great crumb. Only just realised that there was a vanilla drizzle to it too, but ours tasted delicious even without it! 
CHOCOLATE YOGURT CAKE as adapted from AK Mom’s recipe here
Ingredients:
Flour – 1 1/2 cups
Wholewheat flour -1/2 cup
Cocoa – 2/3 cup
Instant Coffee – 2 tbsp
Baking Soda – 1 tsp
Baking powder – 1 tsp
Pinch of salt
Butter – 1/2 cup; at room temperature
Sugar – 1 cup
Eggs – 2
Yogurt – 1 1/2 cups
Vanilla Extract – 1 tsp
Coffee Extract – 1 tsp (optional)
Method:
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Grease well & flour a 9″ bundt pan, & preheat the oven to 180C.
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Sift both the flours + baking powder + baking soda + salt + cocoa. Keep aside.
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Beat the butter & sugar. Add eggs & beat again. Add the coffee & vanilla extract & beat.
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Now alternatively add the flour mix & yogurt till well incorporated. Don’t over mix. The batter will be quite thick, ie, not a flowing one.
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Turn into bundt pan, level out & bake for 45 mins to an hour/until done. Slide a sheet of foil over the top loosely if you see it browning too soon.
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Once done, cool in pan for 5 minutes, turn out on rack.
Deeba @ PAB
About me: I am a freelance food writer, recipe developer and photographer. Food is my passion - baking, cooking, developing recipes, making recipes healthier, using fresh seasonal produce and local products, keeping a check on my carbon footprint and being a responsible foodie! I enjoy food styling, food photography, recipe development and product reviews. I express this through my food photographs which I style and the recipes I blog. My strength lies in 'Doing Food From Scratch'; it must taste as good as it looks, and be healthy too. Baking in India, often my biggest challenge is the non-availability of baking ingredients, and this has now become a platform to get creative on. I enjoy cooking immensely as well.
47 Comments
Sara
This looks beautiful – what a great way to use yogurt!
noble pig
I remember discovering food blogs for the first time and I was instantly sucked into their food, their children and found myself wondering about them and what they would make next. It’s a wonderful world isn’t it.
This cake looks like a lovely snack with some cold milk. Simple and delicious.
Elra
Ahhh Deeba,
how nice it is to wake up in the morning and found your Yogurt cake. Wish I can just grab it from my screen.
Cheers,
Elra
Joie de vivre
Thank you for accepting my friend request on Foodbuzz. I can’t wait to read future posts. You have some gorgeous photos on your site. Well done.
nithya at hungrydesi
This looks delicious – healthy and moist…I can’t think of a better combo for a nice hot cup of chai. Thanks for stopping by my blog – I’m happy to have discovered yours. Let me know if you try my vada pav recipe!
Gloria Chadwick
OMG, Deeba. How do you do it? Make absolutely delicious chocolate cakes with coffee inside that are also healthy!? 🙂 Wish you lived next door to me so I could come over and raid your refrigerator.
Snooky doodle
wow what a nice cake. Your cakes are always a marvelous! I like yogurt in cakes 🙂
Bharti
I know what you mean about the blogging world Deeba. Its so nice to be a part of it and I feel like I’ve met so many like minded people. I do wish I had more time to devote to blogging but slow n steady in my case! FYI, I absolutely love your blog, and your enthusiasm too. Chocolate yogurt cake looks and sounds yum.
Dawn
Oh I agree with you about yogurt in cakes. I even use yogurt in muffins, it adds such creaminess to them.
And I just love the blogging world….calms me in a way.
Nags
awesome! i have been using a very similar recipe for years! its amazing, isn’t it?
Helene
Beautiful! Looks so moist.
Purnima
Deeba, Brilliantly neat cut…those pcs!Something in my capacity..hence
Noted, feedback by your night! Adios till then, amigo.. (yup watched kiddo cd..words hangover.:D)
Purnima
FOIL SHEET TIP..very very useful…please highlight(had I known this earlier, I wd hv prevented the apple almond cake frm you which I made, but all the almond slices got coal black..my mistake! So had to slice off the surface..rest of the cake was a treat!)…tks! Its in oven..wd b back wt results for this current one! 😀
Gretchen Noelle
This sounds really tasty! I just may have to make this!
Curry Leaf
WOW,GREAT.Scrumptious :P. Love the combo.No words to describe the beauty. 😛
Purnima
Turned out great (35mins@180C my oven), not too sweet, not too bitter, moist n just right for coffee time..I skipped the coffee pwdr+essence as kids wd love to have more of choco flavor ..for kids, half a cup more of sugar wd hv provided a sweet touch, but all the same, each kid happily gobbled two pcs! Thanks for sharing..!
toontz
Anything with coffee AND chocolate in it is for me!
Darius T. Williams
Looks great – can I have a slice…please?
Bellini Valli
I can see why you would want to try this cake Deeba. The first food blog I ever discovered was Ruth over at Once Upon a Feast and Presto Pasta Nights. It took me a while to dive in to blogging myself but I am glad I did. It is almost 2 years now!!!!!
aquadaze
Oh this looks so moist and delicious. I have one with buttermilk, but this is way healthier with the wholewheat flour! And i cant stop drooling!!
zurin
Hi Deeba,
Love ur blog and the fotos are beautiful. I see u love chocolate. I have a terrible weakness for it too and for baking as well. only now I try to bake a little less cos af all the butter and sugar in it.And eggs…sigh. 🙂
nicisme
That cake does look good, and who can resist chocolate?
I’m glad you decided to start a blog Deeba, you are very inspirational!
Mallika
Deeba – this looks so good. I love the idea of a yogurt and wholewheat flour cake! Bookmarked for sure. By the way, can’t believe your daughter is 13! Hope you guys have had a brilliant start to the New Year. All my love.
Mallika
Sorry – one question. Can I make this without a bundt pan? Like a normal cake tin?
Happy cook
I have been trying to get into your place from yesterday onwards, i almost gave up 😉
Love the cake and with youghurt it sounds healthy too.
Yeah i too remember the first time when i accidnetly came upon a blog , and i think i looked trhough it for days, looking to all the recipies and it is after days i discovered there were many more blog like that :-)))
Ivy
It looks perfect!!
Nazarina A
A very joyous new year to you Deeba!
This delicious looking chocolate yogurt bundt has my taste bud stamp of approval!
Vera
Deeba, the cake looks sinfully good! Perfect texture!
Dragon
I’m always waiting to find out what you’re making next. I’m never disappointed.
So if this cake is healthy, then I can have 2 slices. Right? 🙂
anu
Hi,
I follow your Blog everyday:)and love all the baking stuff.. if possible can I get your email id to ask certain doubts.. my id is molsun@gmail.com
Thanks
Anu
Nachiketa
“One wish…I wish I had more time!”
Me tooooooooo……
I have 4 cakes waiting to go up…. just not got the time to process the pictures n write what i want to……
Need to be more inspired by you…[than i already am] 😉
Just love you’re blog…..
Susan from Food Blogga
I love baking with yogurt. It makes everything so moist. But I haven’t tried chocolate and yogurt yet. Looks like I should! Yum!
Jamie
This looks great! I am always looking for cake recipes – and chocolate cake recipes – to use in my dad’s old bundt pan. This one looks delicious and everyone will eat it.
morgana
Mmmm. It looks yummy. I love yogourt cakes and this has an aditional interest: chocolate! It must be just great.
I was surprising to find a spanish proverb here, one I use quite often indeed. Though “tortas” here is not for cakes but for some kind of “no yeast bread”, is not as good as bread but if you are hungry and you don’t have any bread at all, “tortas” can taste really good. 😉
Love from Spain.
pinkstripes
Your pictures are gorgeous and the cake looks delicious. YUM!
Reeni♥
It does look delicious, all on its own. How happy we are that you took that step and made your own place on the web. We are all benefiting from your lovely post, pictures, recipes and delightful personality!
Nachiketa
I seem to have taken a liking to the number 4….
4 cake recipes are waiting to be posted….
and
I just finished making 4 cakes. 2 of the yogurt ones like yours…
Another 2 of the chocolate blackout cakes…..
Thanks for the tips…
Jeanne
You are so right deeba! I used to cook the same stuff over and over, and then I discovered blogging and suddenly I not only had an excuse to try new things, but also an endless supply of inspiration – from peope like you 🙂 The cake looks fantastic…
Mallugirl
The days are indeed too short to make all the stuff everyone blogs!!
Varsha Vipins
Deeba..my my..what a lovely moist n rich cake..am drooling..its ma first time here n well for a wonderful treat..:)
Uj
Finally made this cake yest. It came out perfect and yummy. Have blogged about it to keep a note of the recipe. Hope it is fine with you. Thanks for the wonderful recipe
nithya at hungrydesi
I made this last week with 100% King Arthur whole wheat flour, blackberries and Fage yogurt and omitted the chocolate and coffee. It was really moist and delicious. Made for a great cake to accompany tea or coffee. Thanks for the recipe!
suma
Hi Deeba! Looks absolutely chocolicious!!! I am feeling just like u did! How could I have not explored that wealth of recipes available and just made the same old things again and again? Neeways,its better late than never. So glad to have entered this amazing world of blogs!!
Meetu
Hi Deeba! This cake looked so yummy and healthy that i made it yesterday and it was a super duper hit. Only after I discovered the world of blogs(quite recently) have I started trying all of these new recipes. Your blog's are amazing and i visit them quite frequently to check out all the new things that you are making.
Lopamudra Raiguru
Tried this recipe today. Came out really well, mykiddo loved it too. I substituted 1 1/2 cup plain flour with 1 cup wheat flour + 1/2 cup cocoa powder & added 1/2 cup extra sugar. Also used 1 cup of yogurt. Reduced baking time to 30mins. You wont belive it tastes soooo good. Thanks for sharing this awesome cake.
Deeba @ PAB
I am so glad. Will try it again with your inputs. I haven’t made this in a while, so nows a good time. Thank you for baking from PAB! 🙂