Yogurt Cake with Marmalade Glaze

Like so many homemade French desserts, this pound cake, tenderized with yogurt instead of butter, is utterly simple and versatile.

Serving size: Makes 8 servings

Ingredients:
1 1/2 cups all purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 cup plain Erivan yogurt
1 cup sugar
3 large eggs
1 teaspoon (packed) finely grated lemon peel
1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/2 cup vegetable oil

1/4 cup lemon, orange, or grapefruit marmalade (for glaze)
1 teaspoon water

Preparation:
Position rack in center of oven and preheat to 350°F. Generously butter 8 1/2×4 1/2×2 1/2-inch metal loaf pan. Sift flour, baking powder, and salt into medium bowl. Combine yogurt, sugar, eggs, lemon peel, and vanilla in large bowl; whisk until well blended. Gradually whisk in dry ingredients. Using rubber spatula, fold in oil. Transfer batter to prepared pan. Place pan on baking sheet.
Place cake on baking sheet in oven and bake until cake begins to pull away from sides of pan and tester inserted into center comes out clean, about 50 minutes. Cool cake in pan on rack 5 minutes. Cut around pan sides to loosen cake. Turn cake out onto rack. Turn cake upright on rack and cool completely. (Can be made 1 day ahead. Wrap and store at room temperature.)

Stir marmalade and 1 teaspoon water in small saucepan over medium heat until marmalade melts. Brush hot mixture over top of cake. Let glaze cool and set. Cut cake crosswise into slices.

Christine from Baltimore

Dear Erivan,

I came across your yogurt four or five years ago, in an “upscale” grocery store…I shop there once every six weeks for “special” items. I go there especially for your Erivan Yogurt. As compared to other “commercial” yogurts, your product seems like it was made by early American Colonists who took pride in their recipe, cared about their family’s health, and the well being of their greatly valued cows.
It smells great, it tastes great (a bit tart and so alive!)…even my small dogs love to have some in their bowls every day! When I have gone off plain yogurt, I have had slight health issues such as yeast overgrowths and colds. But since I have made it part of my healthier diet plan now, your acidopholis all natural yogurt makes me feel like I can do anything! I am not kidding.

Sincerely,
Christine, Baltimore, MD

Justina from CA

I moved to California 10 years ago and have morned your yogurt!
Visiting cape cod for 2weeks has allowed me to eat it EVERY DAY
NO JOKE!!!
I have eaten your AMAZING YOGURT for about 30 years and have to eat my fill
when I visit the east coast!!
Just needed to tell you guys and cows that your yogurt is the world’s best ever
No one can top your product!
Thank you for my 2 weeks of heaven!
Justina

Tahlia

I just had to let you know how happy I am to have found your yogurt. It is by far the best yogurt I’ve ever had. I drive an hour and fifteen minutes to purchase it from Whole Foods and usually buy 5 or 6 containers at a time. My 10 year old daughter is also madly in love with it. It makes me so happy every time she requests a bowl of Erivan yogurt and blueberries. Thanks again!

Tahlia

Fresia

Hi good people and cows of Erivan heaven! :o)

I’m addicted to yogurt since I was 5 years old. Moving from my motherland to Sweden maid it possible for me to try every single yogurt there was, during the summer holly days when we travel around Europe I kept on trying just because I love yogurt.

When I came here for almost two years now I was dreading a life without yogurt but I started with my search for THE yogurt. It took me 1 year and 2-3 month to find your Erivan.
I was passing the yogurt aisle in Whole Food with a most depressing look (because I couldn’t find The One) when a word just jump out from its container: Acidophilus! Could it be?

Finally at home, I open the container, smell it and felt my expectations grow, I took a spoonful and try it. Yes, finally! At last I found The One. This is almost the same as the one I eat in Sweden.

Thank you so much for the yogurt, thanks all the cows, please hug n kiss theme from me.

Love
///Fresia

MA from Brooklyn

Hi,
Love your yogurt! I was getting tired of picking up every single different “natural” and “healthy” yogurt brand, only to find they ALL had junk in them, even if it was organic junk 🙂 Then I picked up your brand. It wasn’t fancy, but it didn’t have anything in it but what I wanted. And, when I took it home and tried it, I found it delicious! Thanks so much for your dedication to old fashioned quality and for making the complicated simple!

MA
from Brooklyn, NY

Zoe from Sarasota

To ALL that contribute to making this wonderful yogurt,

My dad use to make yogurt, I’m talking over 40 years ago. Yours is the only yogurt that even compares; some have come only close… but yours is spot on.

Thank you for making this wonderful yogurt.

Zoe from Sarasota, FL

Andrew from Lancaster

Dear Erivan,

Your yogurt is doing wonders for my stomach! It is a staple in my diet and is one of my keys to true health. I’ve tried other yogurts and there just simply isn’t any other yogurt out there that encompasses what yogurt should be. Your product is 100% consistent. Who can argue with all those active cultures!!! This stuff is the yogurt of the gods!! For sure! I recommend it to any one trying to re constitute a balance of good and bad bacteria in the body. Erivan yogurt will keep you healthy, happy and regular too! I’m so blessed to have discovered Erivan yogurt, for it really is my secret to staying completely healthy year in and year out. 🙂

Lovingly,
Andrew from Lancaster, PA

Amy

Dear Erivan,

I LOVE your yogurt! (And just noticed your address after 3 years!) I tell everyone I know who likes yogurt that there is No other yogurt like Erivan – I think it’s the only yogurt out there that tastes like yogurt should – tangy, and real – without the custardy quality of most yogurts. I eat it plain (or with honey) – that’s all it needs.
I’d like to recieve the info you have (“Good News”?) about Acidophilus and the wonders that it works.
Also, why “Erivan”? What (who?) does it mean?**

Thanks in advance,
Your biggest fan,

Amy

(Feel free to reprint anything in my letter!)
(P.S. I have never ever written to any company to rave about its product! A first for everything.)

**Good question! The answer is in “Our Story”.

Susan

Dear Erivan Dairy:

I’m completely addicted to your yogurt! I was reading the container when I saw the suggestion that I write in for more information.
Thanks for your products and for your kind practices < the cows >.
I purchased the yogurt at Fairway and was very pleased to find it in my neighborhood @ A MATTER OF HEALTH, 1st AVE NYC
I purchased 4 containers because I’m a junkie! I love this stuff!

Sincerely,

Susan

P.S. kiss the cows for me xoxo