Yogurt Cake

So I am reading this book called “Bringing Up Bébé: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting” and it is pretty interesting but it should be called “One American Mother with a New York Perspective Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting” because I think the New Yorkers parent a bit more differently than the rest of the world. But she does touch on a lot of great points. One chapter talks about how the French can eat out with their two and three year olds and not have issues. There was no real solution as to how to do that though other than the exploring of new foods at a young age and the virtue of teaching patience. I swear I have done both of these but it is still struggle to have a well behaved five year old if we go out to eat. My two year old is better than my five year old for that matter. Anyway one of the chapters discusses how all French mothers tend to cook with their kids at a young age and most make a simple yogurt cake recipe for the 3 pm tea time snack. Well, cooking with my kids is no big enlightenment since when they stand on their own I strap on an apron and hand them measuring cups (and sometimes eggs to my detriment) and let them help me bake. But I had yet to try yogurt cake and it sounded good and easy for the kids. It is basically the French equivalent of pound cake. So the next time it was baking time in the kitchen I pulled out the yogurt and we made the recipe! You use the empty yogurt contgainers to measure the ingredients and the results were very tasty. I added chocolate Chips to mine but you can add anything (lemon zest, cocoa, cinnamon, etc). Veyry yummy and the kids had fun (but I don’t think they will be any better behaved when we go out to eat next!)

Yogurt Cake – from Bringing Up Bébé

2 - 6 ounce containers plain whole milk yogurt (you could also do 4 oz container, I used fat free greek only because the store was out of whole milk yogurt)

2 eggs

2 containers sugar (or 1 depending on how sweet you like it)

1 tsp vanilla

1 container oil (I used ½ container coconut oil)

4 containers flour1 ½ tsp Baking powder

Grease 9 inch cake pan or loaf pan. Preheat 375. Wet first then dry. Mix gently! Can add a container berries or chocolate chips. Bake 35-45 minutes until toothpick come out clean.

Getting ready to bake
Pre-oven cake

Post oven cake (a tad overcooked) but still Yum!

And a just becuase photo...Haha the kids at Target trying on Halloween masks!