Taste-bud Journey: Easy Yogurt Cake with Chocolate Chips

During the pandemic, I am taking taste-bud journeys as I self-isolate rather than physical journeys. Here is my adapted recipe for making a half-recipe called Easy Yogurt Cake with Chocolate Chips. It was inspired by a recipe blog by Diana Moutsopoulos. This is apparently a well-known French recipe.

Conclusion: This recipe makes either twelve full-size muffins or eighteen muffin-tops. They were definitely moist and filled with rich chocolate flavor. There is no need for icing as they are plenty rich on their own. 

I might like to try making these muffins using butterscotch chips or toffee chips. It might even be fun to try them using fruit instead of flavored chips. I could definitely make these again exactly as is. All in all, this was a very nice dessert option.

Recipe that has been halved

• 6 tbsp plain yogurt
• 3 tbsp grapeseed oil plus extra oil to grease the muffin tins
• 1 egg
• 3/4 cup white sugar
• 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
• 2/3 cup all-purpose flour
• 1 1/4 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/4 tsp fine sea salt
• 1/4 cup mini chocolate chips and/or M&M's

OR Here is the Whole Recipe 

• 3/4 cup plain yogurt
• 1/3 cup cooking oil plus extra oil to grease the muffin tins
• 2 eggs
• 1 1/2 cups white sugar
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 1 1/3 cups all-purpose flour
• 2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/4 tsp fine sea salt
• 1/2 cup mini chocolate chips

Procedure

• Step 1: Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Grease muffin tins - enough to make 18 muffins.


• Step 2: Empty the yogurt into a mixing bowl. Whisk in the cooking oil.


• Step 3: Add egg, sugar, and vanilla extract to the mixture. Beat well until thoroughly combined.


• Step 4: Add flour, baking powder, and salt. Stir until just combined.

• Step 5: Stir in chopped-up chocolate chips.

•  Step 6: Pour into the prepared muffin tins. This batter will produce 18 muffins.

• Step 7: Bake in the preheated oven for 25 minutes until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Allow them to cool completely before serving.

Recipe Source and video tutorial will open in a new window.

Easy Yogurt Cake by Diana Moutsopoulos

Cooking Sites that have inspired me:

• Gemma's Bigger Bolding Baking website that includes over 100 great cooking videos.

• All Recipes Website that includes all kinds of sweet and savory recipes.

Books written by Debbie Dunn:

Here is the Amazon Link to all anti-bullying curriculum books plus all children’s books written by Debbie Dunn (both paperback and Kindle). It will open up in a new window.

• Author’s Page on Amazon.com