Apple Yogurt Cake (Air Fryer ver.)

The day is the day (by the time I write this blog it is already passed a few weeks) that my desire to crave a cake so badly. I look at the fridge and found some leftover plain yogurt (not much left) and a few apples in it, so I'm thinking why not make an apple cake without milk instead of using yogurt. Since the plain yogurt of mine is not much left so I'm not planning to make it a big cake. Also, I have a big oven, to bake such little is gonna time-consuming and waste of electricity. Thus, I look at my air fryer and thinking maybe this could work. 

I have seen so many Facebook post/youtube people baking cake with air fryer, so I want to see if this works. By the end result, it is indeed able to bake a cake! Further talking, lets straight jump to the recipe. 

Ingredients:

30g salted butter

20g vegetable oil (or skip this just use full salted butter)

65g granulated sugar

1 egg (L size)

1/2tsp vanilla essence

62g plain yogurt

90g low protein flour/cake flour

10g corn starch

1/2tsp baking soda

1 apple (sliced)

2tbsp raisin (soaked in water for 10mins)

Steps:

1. Grease and flour well a 6-inch round springform cake pan. Or just use parchment paper.
2. In a bowl, mix all the dry ingredients and whisk thoroughly.
3. Using another bowl, cream the butter, then add in vegetable oil + sugar and beat to pale yellow color.
4. Add in egg and whisk until combined.
5. Before adding the plain yogurt, add in vanilla essence and whisk a little to loosen/creamy then only pour into 4. and mix well.
6. Sift the dry ingredients and mix just until no flour can be seen.
7. Drain off the raisin from water and put half of the apple slices and fold into the cake batter. 
8. Pour the cake batter into cake pan. Arrange and layer the remaining apple slices on top of the cake batter.
9. Preheat the air fryer 150°C for 5min.
10. Put the cake pan into the air fryer and bake for 25min. Then turn down to 140°C and bake another 10min.  
11. Once done baking, take out the cake pan and set aside to cool for 15min then take out and let it cool completely. 
12. Slices it and serve.

*Every brand is slightly different. Kindly check the doneness with a skewer or the brownness of the top of the cake after baking for the first 20-25min. If come off clean then the cake can take it out. if not try to bake another 5-10min / if too brown/apple slices too dry/burn on the top but the cake not yet done turns to lower heat.

I check my cake at 25min and found out the apple slice on top is a little dry and the cake still not yet done so I turn down the heat and bake another 10min. It came out nicely and super moist in the inside.

You could add a little more raisin and apple whether it is sliced or cubed. Just follow your preference. For me, raisin could be a little more to this recipe. As well as the butter used, you can go for all butter but in my situation, there will always have leftovers and needed to put into the fridge to store. In order to keep it moist and not firm after sitting in the fridge, I just use vegetable oil instead of all butter. (Read this trick somewhere else years ago.) 

Hope you enjoy and have fun in baking :)