Cardomom (elachie) Yoghurt Cake

INGREDIENTS

50 g butter, softened, plus extra for greasing
225 g caster sugar
½ large or 1 small oranges, juiced and zested
1 teaspoon cardamom seeds, freshly ground (or 1 teaspoon ready ground cardamom)
4 eggs
225 ml yogurt
350 g plain flour
1 ½ teaspoon baking powder
¼ teaspoon salt
75 g raspberries, to decorate
For the icing

225 g icing sugar, sifted
¼ teaspoon ground cardamom or ground seeds of 5 cardamom pods
25-30 ml natural yogurt

METHOD

Preheat the oven to 180C/160C fan/gas mark 4, and butter the
bundt tin.
If you’re using a standard type of cake tin, butter the sides and line the base with baking parchment.
Cream the butter until soft in a large bowl or in an electric food mixer.
Add the sugar and beat until the mixture is light and fluffy.
Next beat in the orange juice and zest and the ground cardamom.

Add the eggs one at a time, beating well between each addition,
then mix in the yogurt.
Sift in the flour, baking powder and salt, and fold in with a spoon
until just combined.
Tip the batter into the prepared tin and smooth the top with a spatula
or palette knife.
Bake the cake for 50–55 minutes, or until a skewer inserted into the centre of the cake comes out clean.
Allow to cool for 5 minutes then if using a bundt tin, place a wire
rack on the top and invert the cake so it is upside down, then remove
the tin and leave to cool on the wire rack.
As the cake cools, make the icing.

For the icing:
Beat together the icing sugar, cardamom and 25ml of yogurt, adding a tiny bit more yogurt if the mixture seems too stiff - it should be a thick drizzling consistency; too thin and the icing will slide off the cake, too thick and you won’t be able to drizzle it.

Place the cake on a cake stand or serving plate.
Drizzle the icing backwards and forwards from the centre to the outside of the cake in a zigzag pattern, or in zigzags across the top if it’s been made in a standard tin.
Decorate with the raspberries immediately while the icing is still wet so they stick to the icing.

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