This cake is so retro, that if you look up retro in Wikipedia, there is a picture of this cake there.
I was given this recipe by a friend of mine, an older friend of mine. She said back in the day, before I was born, this was a great cake to give at a pantry party to a bride to be.
Before, I have to explain what a pantry party is….. let’s get to the recipe.
Use a small tub of yoghurt ( I used a 150g one) and use the empty tub to measure the rest of the ingredients. Clever, isn’t it. So simple, even a new bride could not mess it up! (tongue in cheek : where is that emoji )
Cake:
1 pot of natural yoghurt (full fat is best)
2 pots of flour
7,5ml baking powder
1 pot castor sugar
½ pot of vegetable oil
3 eggs
zest of one grapefruit
juice of half a grapefruit
3ml salt
Drizzle:
30ml grapefruit juice
zest of 1 grapefruit
250ml icing sugar
Cake:
Preheat oven to 180ºC
Grease a loaf tin
Scoop yoghurt out into a large bowl, add eggs, oil and sugar.
Sift flour, baking powder and salt into bowl and mix well.
Stir in grapefruit juice and zest.
Spoon into a prepared loaf tin and smooth the top with the back of a spoon.
Bake for 30 to 35 minutes until a tester comes out clean.
Turn out onto a cooking rack and cool completely before topping with drizzle and serving.
Drizzle:
Combine icing sugar and grapefruit juice and zest.Mix well.
Drizzle over cooled cake, before slicing.
Cake:
- 1 pot of natural yoghurt (full fat is best)
- 2 pots of flour
- 7,5ml baking powder
- 1 pot castor sugar
- ½ pot of vegetable oil
- 3 eggs
- zest of one grapefruit
- 3ml salt
Drizzle:
- 30ml grapefruit juice
- zest of 1 grapefruit
- 250ml icing sugar
Cake:
- Preheat oven to 180ºC
- Grease a loaf tin
- Scoop yoghurt out into a large bowl, add eggs, oil and sugar.
- Sift flour, baking powder and salt into bowl and mix well.
- Stir in grapefruit juice and zest.
- Spoon into a prepared loaf tin and smooth the top with the back of a spoon.
- Bake for 30 to 35 minutes until a tester comes out clean.
- Turn out onto a cooking rack and cool completely before topping with drizzle and serving.
Drizzle:
- Combine icing sugar and grapefruit juice and zest.Mix well.
- Drizzle over cooled cake, before slicing.
