Baking Goodness
Even though I'm inexact with my cooking, I learned the hard way that you can't do that with baking. So aside from tinkering with the spices/add-ons, I'm generally pretty exact with my baked goods.


Spiced Yogurt "Pound" Cake
(it's relatively low in Points/fat if you are counting that sort of thing)

1/2 cup white sugar, 1/2 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup butter, softened
2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
1 cup plain yogurt
3 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon ground allspice
1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1/4 teaspoon ground cloves You can use an equal amount of pumpkin pie spice to sub for the total of all spices.
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon baking soda

*the original recipe uses 1 c of butter, and 2 c of white sugar. It was really way to sweet that way.

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease a loaf pan. The original recipe uses a 9x13, but using a loaf pan lets you slice the cake nicely when it's done.

2. In a large bowl, cream the butter or margarine with the sugar until light and fluffy.

3. Beat in the flour, yogurt, eggs, vanilla, cinnamon, allspice, nutmeg, ground cloves, salt and baking soda. Mix until combined then beat at high speed for 2 minutes.

4 Pour the batter into the prepared pan and bake at 350 degrees F for 30 to 35 minutes or until a toothpick inserted near the center comes out clean. Cool cake in pan on a wire rack for 15 minutes, remove from pan and continue to cool.

It's very tasty with some ginger preserves, or marmalade, and a hot cup of tea or cold glass of milk.