Description
This is a very moist lime yogurt cake.
Ingredients
- cooking spray with flour
- 1 cup white sugar
- ½ cup butter, softened
- 3 eggs
- 1 cup plain whole-milk yogurt
- 2 tablespoons lime juice
- 2 limes, zested
- 1 ½ cups all-purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ⅓ cup white sugar
- ⅓ cup lime juice
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 1 tablespoon lime juice
- 1 tablespoon water, or as needed
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Coat an 11×7-inch baking pan with cooking spray with flour.
- Cream sugar and butter together in a bowl using an electric mixer. Add eggs
- yogurt
- and lime juice; mix well. Mix in lime zest. Sift in flour
- baking powder
- and salt; mix well. Pour into the prepared pan.
- Bake in the preheated oven until center is set and a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean
- about 40 minutes. Remove from the oven and let cool for 10 minutes.
- Meanwhile
- make the glaze by heating sugar and lime juice in a saucepan over medium-low heat until sugar dissolves and becomes a clear liquid
- 3 to 5 minutes. Poke holes throughout the top of the cooled cake using the end of a wooden spoon; pour glaze over the cake and let soak in. Continue to let cool.
- Mix powdered sugar
- lime juice
- and water together in a bowl for icing and drizzle over the cooled cake.
Prep Time: 20 mins
Cook Time: 40 mins
Total Time: 1 hr 10 mins
Servings: 12