Sunday, November 13, 2011

Mini Chocolate Yogurt Snack Cakes




As I move around different work locations, I'm back with the team that does the most awesome morning teas. It's a once a week event, organised to help the hunger pangs from hitting us when we have a few meetings scheduled back to back.

This time round, I looked through my bookmarked recipes and found the perfect one. Perfect? I define it as easy, quick and looks delish.


It has no butter, but remained moist. I reduced the amount of oil in this and had around 185 grams of dark chocolates melted. Well, I rather calories come from good dark chocolate than butter! It yielded around 12 mini cakes. Don't be fooled by the word yogurt, I think it is quite a rich cake. Zap it in the microwave for a few seconds for the gooey moist insides.

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Mini Chocolate Yogurt Snack Cakes (12 mini cakes)
185 grams of dark chocolate. I used Lindt
less than 1/2 cup of oil. I used olive
1/2 cup greek yogurt
1/2 cup sugar
3 large eggs
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 1/2 cup of flour
1 1/2 tsp of baking powder
1/2 tsp of salt
1/2 cup of slivered almonds
1/2 cup of dried cranberries


Preheat oven to 180 C. Lined muffin tray with papers or like me, just place pretty cups on a cookie tray.

Simmer water in a saucepan. Place a glass bowl on top of the simmering saucepan and place chopped up chocolate there. Met with 1/4 cup of oil. Remove from heat when melted

In a large jug, whisk remaining oil, yogurt, sugar, eggs and vanilla.

Bowl- whisk flour, baking powder and salt. Make a well in the middle, pour wet into dry. Fold. Add almonds and cranberries. Fold. Spoon into muffin papers.

Bake for 20-25 minutes till set in the middle. Cool and eat.

Sending my love to Aspiring Bakes #13 Cupcakes hosted by Min's Blog this month.
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5 comments:

  1. Love the cute mini sizes :) And anything chocolate!

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  2. I was wondering why the title of the cake sounds familiar and then I realised that it's something that I had baked before. Getting old and forgetful... LOL!

    Love how your cakes turned out, they looked prettier than mine!

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  3. Beautiful! I like the cracks on top, look delicious.

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  4. hi daphne, these choc cakes look awesome! i read too that using oil in replacement of butter, they still produce very good results!

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  5. Oh i really really want to make these right now for my son. He would love them but I don't have greek yogurt- in fact that only thing I have is strawberry yoplait? You think that would work? They are simply beautiful

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