Easy Yogurt Orange Cake with Olive Oil. This simple, no-mixer cake is soft, fluffy, airy, with just the right touch of sponginess. Not too sweet, with a bright citrusy flavor and a gentle note of Greek yogurt.

This Greek yogurt orange cake is the sort of bake you'll find yourself reaching for breakfast, with coffee, or even as a light dessert after a meal.

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Making A Yogurt Cake
Ingredient Substitutes
Toppings
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An everyday kind of cake loaded with fresh and earthy flavors, a tender crumb with a spongy texture, and a touch moist from the Greek yogurt and olive oil.

It's not overly sweet, which makes the flavor of oranges shine through even more. Plus, it gives you a chance to play around with different toppings, some of which are mentioned below.

Making A Yogurt Cake

I love yogurt cakes. They're the easier ones to make. Unlike butter cakes, you don't need an electric mixer for them to come together.

Yogurt, and in this case, Greek yogurt, is already creamy on its own (no need to cream it like butter). Also, it's slightly acidic and reacts with leavening agents in a cake batter (baking soda or baking powder), making the batter airy and fluffy.

When you make a yogurt cake, usually all you have to do is mix all the ingredients (in the right order) in a bowl and then bake!

Yogurt is, in most cases, combined with oil (light vegetable oil or olive oil) to make up for the fat content missing from butter.

Two of my all-time favorite Greek yogurt cakes to make are Samali (a rustic, old-fashioned cake with semolina and syrup) and Yiaourtopita (a moist Greek yogurt cake with syrup and citrusy flavors).

Other Greek Yogurt Cakes You May Want To Try:

Ingredient Substitutes

Use Another Citrus Fruit:

You can follow this recipe for orange yogurt cake, and instead of using oranges, you can use lemons and make a lemon yogurt cake or even clementines!

Use Gluten-Free Flour:

You can use self-rising gluten-free flour in a 1:1 ratio for this recipe. Or you can even make your own self-rising gluten-free flour at home.

Make It Dairy-free / Vegan:

This easy orange cake is so versatile. You can easily swap Greek yogurt for a plant-based yogurt (ideally soya that has a good amount of protein similar to Greek yogurt), and instead of eggs, you can use flax eggs (see here how to make flax eggs).

Swap The Sugar:

Instead of white sugar, you can use brown sugar, demerara sugar, coconut sugar, or another granulated sweetener.

Toppings

Serve this fresh olive oil Greek yogurt cake with icing sugar on top. Add as much as you like, depending on how sweet you want it to be.

You can also make an icing sugar and orange glaze by following this recipe. If you like it to be ultra orangy flavored, coat it with orange jam. Or make a glaze of orange jam (or other jam like apricot, clementine, fig, cherry, etc), by dissolving the jam with a tablespoon or two of fresh orange juice, brandy, or almond liquor.

Another delicious coating for this yogurt orange cake is honey! You can serve each piece with a spoonful of Greek yogurt or Homemade whipped cream, and drizzle it with honey.

Or you can add half a cup of honey with half a cup of fresh orange juice in a saucepan and heat until the honey dissolves. Then pour over the cake. It will be like a quick orange and honey syrup.

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