This is my go-to quick and simple cake I make if I need something easy either as a nice homemade bake for tea with friends or a playdate, or as a simple gift to drop off to show someone I’m thinking about them. The main reason I love it so much is that the recipe calls for ingredients you most likely have at home already. It’s also a fantastic way to use up berries that are starting to look less than perfect.
It’s an ancient recipe that was from my gran on my mom’s side. I still have the hand written scrap of paper that’s lived tucked away in the back of heirloom recipe books for decades. So for nostalgia sake I like to bake this a lot in honour of all the bakers that have come before me in our family.
Traditionally I think it was made with cherries or other stone fruit (peaches, apricots, nectarines etc). But as we eat a lot of berries and often have the odd punnet of over ripe strawberries or blueberries that are that little bit too soft to enjoy eating fresh, then I toss them on top of this and it turns out perfectly every time!
Granny's Berry Bake
Ingredients
- 4 eggs
- 2 cups sugar castor
- 1 cup yoghurt plain
- 3 cups plain flour
- 3 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1/2 cup oil canola
- 1 cup berries washed & dried
Instructions
- In one large mixing bowl add the eggs and sugar and beat until well combined
- Add in the yoghurt and stir until well incorporated into the mixture
- Sift in the flour and baking powder
- Add in the vanilla extract and oil and mix
- preheat oven to 180C
- Pour batter into a well greased pie dish
- Bake it for 5 minutes only before adding the berries, this stops the berries from sinking to the bottom the cake
- Remove from the oven and add the berries, dropping them from a height so they get embedded into the mixture
- Bake for 30 - 40 minutes depending on your oven
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