While yogurt itself makes a delicious desert with fruits, nuts, and honey, it can also be the secret ingredient in a baked dessert, such as muffins and cakes. My interest in yogurt's use in baking began when making blueberry muffins a few months ago. I followed a recipe that called for a half a cup of yogurt, and I was pleasantly surprised by the results - deliciously moist fluffy muffins. Yogurt makes cakes and muffins more chewy and moist.
In baking, yogurt can be used to reduce or replace oil, butter, and sour cream. Besides replacing these more fatty ingredients, yogurt creates a more tender texture. Fellow blog, Taste of Home, provides extremely helpful guidelines to using yogurt in baking. Below are some scrumptious recipes that call for yogurt:
- Blueberry Muffins
- Spiced Carrot Muffins
- Apricot Yogurt Cake with Orange Honey Syrup
- Citrus-Glazed Yogurt Cake
- Carrot Cake - What can I say? I love anything baked that involves carrots.
- Greek Yogurt Cupcakes
