Fresh Strawberry Yogurt Cake is a wonderful way to start off the day, any day of the week! It's delicious, light, yet dense and amazing, amazing!
You know how I love to use Greek yogurt while I'm baking and I've done it again. I just love the way Greek yogurt keeps cakes and breads super moist. It also adds a slight tang, enhances all the flavors and makes the cake taste richer than it really is. Plus, when I use Greek yogurt, I can reduce the butter in this recipe, making it healthier!
The fresh, juicy strawberries add a nice sweet, tart bite and combined together, it's the perfect combination for breakfast, brunch or snacking.
It's not an overly sweet cake. So, it has a little sweetness, a little tartness...and it's super yummy! It's fairly simple to make and it's a beautiful presentation when it's done baking. I could totally see this light yogurt cake at a bed and breakfast, can't you?
If you have guests coming into town and you want to impress, but not put a lot of work into it, this is a great cake to bake up the day before or the day of.
Also wonderful for Mother's Day, 4th of July and Valentine's Day - because of those red berries and who doesn't love cake?! Serve it with powdered sugar or a dollop of whipped cream. Yum!
If you love yogurt cake-like desserts, you'll probably want to check out this Heavenly Peach Greek Yogurt Cake, Quick & Easy Lemon Strawberry Yogurt Pound Cake, this Yogurt Vanilla Greek Yogurt & Olive Oil Pound Cake and this “Bisquick” Chocolate Cinnamon Greek Yogurt Banana Coffee Cake!
Fresh Strawberry Yogurt Cake
Ingredients
- 1 ¼ cup Greek yogurt I used Oikos® Triple Zero
- 1 egg beaten
- ¼ cup honey maple syrup or sugar (I used honey)
- 3 tablespoons butter melted and cooled slightly
- 1 tsp vanilla or vanilla bean paste I used vanilla bean paste, Nielsen-Massey
- 1 ¼ cup flour all-purpose (I used Bob's Red Mill)
- 2 tsp baking powder
- ½ tsp baking soda
- ½ tsp salt
- 1 ½ cup fresh strawberries sliced
Instructions
- Preheat oven 350 degrees.
- Prepare a 9 or 10" iron cast skillet or baking pan by rubbing with butter.
- In a medium size bowl, add beaten egg, yogurt, honey or maple syrup, vanilla and cooled butter together and mix well.
- In a separate bowl, whisk together flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt.
- Pour all dry ingredients in with the wet ingredients and mix together until lumps are out, but do not overmix.
- Mix in ½ of strawberries and pour into prepared pan, then top with remainder of strawberries and place in oven.
- Bake for 30-35 minutes until middle has risen. Use cake tester or touch with finger for doneness.
- After cake has cooled, sift powdered sugar on top.
Notes
If you want this to be more cake-like, reduce the strawberries by only placing on top. The strawberries on the inside the cake will retain more moisture, so it will be more dense.
Recipe adapted from: Making Healthy Choices
Made this over the weekend and family loved it! Subbed the flour with an all purpose gluten-free flour, and added an additonal 5 minutes to baking time and it was great!
Thank you so much!
Looks delicious!
Yes you are correct Cathy! Added in and thanks so much for catching that. 🙂 Happy Baking!
You list vanilla as an ingredient but is not mentioned in the instructions. I assumed it goes in with wet ingredients but in case you update your recipe...
Thank you so much 2pots2cook! It is so refreshing!
It's amazing what refreshing fruity skillet cake can do if you start your day with it ! Thank you 🙂
It's a very fresh looking rustic cake! I too love using yogurt in cakes, so I know when you say the texture of this cake is amazing!! It's a very pretty looking cake with all those fresh strawberries!
I love the use of Greek yogurt in this too! Definitely looks like it has the perfect texture. Plus yogurt and strawberries are a match made in heaven!
I loved this when I saw it on Instagram!! It's all I want for breakfast!! The strawberries and yogurt combo sounds amazing
Thank you Heather! 🙂 I totally agree about the strawberries, thankfully, I got some good ones! 🙂
yes, love the greek yogurt in here!!! strawberries right now are kind of hit or miss, so baking them and concentrating them sounds like the perfect way to make sure they all taste good (:
Aww...thank you Maria! It's so easy to make, hope you try it!! 🙂
All I can think of is breakfast ever since I saw this in IG. How perfect would this be to be served on Valentine's morning - the pretty pink strawberries and warm, cozy bite straight the skillet. I'm drooling already.
I used honey because I have a lot of it for Christmas! ❤️ But you could use agave nectar for sure!! Any of them work! Try it!
Why did you choose to use honey instead of maple syrup or sugar in this cake? and would agave nectar work?
Aww! Thank you so much Kelsie! 🙂 Happy Monday to Strawberry Yogurt Cake!!
I love that this bakes in a skillet! And I love that you use my beloved Greek yogurt in here :). And I LOVE how pretty this cake is too!