This week’s Tuesday with Dorie was hosted by Liliana of My Cookbook Addiction. If you’ve never visited her blog, you should! It’s cute and a lot of fun. She’s got some recipes there that I can’t wait to try. For her selection, Liliana chose Dorie’s French Yogurt Cake with Marmalade Glaze. While I did make the French Yogurt Cake something tells me you can look at that picture and tell that’s not quite a marmalade glaze flowing over it :)
I’ll confess right here, when I read the recipe I thought it was called “Lemon Yogurt Cake”. Not sure how it happened other than the fact that I’ve got serious lemon-on-the-brain syndrome going on. I’m still trying to figure out how to approach my neighbors down the way and ask if I can harvest the crop of lemons overflowing on their front-yard tree. What can I say… I’m shy. I’ve been consumed with all things lemon lately and I honestly thought this was supposed to be a lemon yogurt cake. When I went to the store to buy yogurt… I bought lemon yogurt. I should also confess that I love yogurt and eat it for breakfast probably 4-5 days each week. Once I discovered this recipe did not call for lemon yogurt but instead plain yogurt, well, it was too late… my yogurt was lemon and we were just gonna go for it from there! LOL.
When I read the instructions for making the marmalade glaze, it called for lemon marmalade. Okay so maybe that’s where I got the lemon brain-wave with this cake! But wait… lemon marmalade? Not something easily found in my neck of the woods and I live in a big city. I wanted to be true to this recipe so I scoured the internet for recipes to make my own lemon marmalade. I discovered it’s not terribly difficult however it does take time. Most recipes indicated at least 24hrs so there went that idea. Oh sure, I could’ve used Orange Marmalade (which I have) but thought it might interfere with the lemon flavor in the cake itself so the marmalade glaze wasn’t happening :(
I decided to make a batch of lemon curd and used some of the warm curd to glaze the top of my cake. Uh… can we say YUM!!!! But of course that wasn’t enough for me, I had to spoon some of the curd directly on my cake. Uh… can we say MEGA YUM! Wow – awesome idea… though admittedly I do love love love love LOVE lemon curd :)
Take a moment to check out the rest of the TwD bakers and how their French Yogurt Cake turned out. There were a few variations given in Dorie’s recipe so I bet there are some great cakes out there. Speaking of the recipe it’s on page 224 of Dorie’s book Baking From My Home To Yours (and probably on Liliana’s blog too).
Have a delicious day!
Your cake looks fantastic with the lemon curd on top. YUM!
Wow, homemade lemon curd…. Must taste great in combination with this wonderful cake!
Every since I tried my aunt’s lemon curd tarts when I was a little girl I hae loved lemon curd. Yours looks delicious! I LOVED this cake, it smelled so good while cooking and tasted wonderful :) I paired it with simple lemon curd. YUM!
Looks delicious! I did the exact same thing and topped mine with lemon curd (I think I was just looking for an excuse to make lemon curd!). Beautiful photos!
Looks wonderful! I recently made lemon curd. You’re right it is YUM!
~ingrid
Oh, idea…. I might have said before but bring your neighbors something lemony and bring up your love of lemons. Hopefully they will take the subtle hint and offer you some lemons. Just be sure to bring them something else lemony with their lemons afterwards. (if they like lemons) Good luck!
~ingrid
I second Ingrid’s idea to take them a dessert (lemon or otherwise) and let them offer you lemons in exchange.
I also love lemon curd. It’s so delicious, and it sure looks yummy on your beautiful cake.
Your cake looks fabulous and I’m sure the lemon curd was delicious.
Your cake looks great with the lemon curd.. I bet it tasted awesome.
I used orange marmalade since the lemon version was no where to be found.
I really enjoyed it.. I has become one of my favorite cake recipes overnight.
Like always.. I love your pics :) Happy St. Patrick’s Day!
Mmm, I love that you used lemon yogurt. This cake looks so fabulous, and with added lemon curd on top. Sign me up!
I think you should bake for your neighbors (something lemony, maybe?) and I’m sure they will share their bounty of lemons with you! The cake and the curd look incredibly good!
I just bought Baking, and I am so excited to make everything. This recipe looks amazing! That picture of the lemon curd dripping down the cake is drool worthy.
lemon yogurt can only boost the flavor, right?! looks great with the curd!!
Yeah! I ended up making my own lemon marmalade cause I couldn’t find any in PoDunk, USA. But that lemon curd looks great with the cake. I think next time I make this (TODAY!!!) I will use lemon yogurt instead. Cake looks really yummy1
That sounds absolutely wonderful – I couldn’t find lemon marmalade either, and am kicking myself for not making lemon curd. Everything’s better with heaping portions of lemon curd :)
help! i made the cake this weekend and it came out dry. i don’t know how that could happen with all that yogurt and oil! thoughts?
Amanda,
The only two things I can think of are 1) overbaking and perhaps rather unlikely it was overbeating. Check out the P’s & Q’s (problems & questions) section for this recipe on the Tuesdays with Dorie website… there might be some good advice there.
Thanks for stopping by!
~Em