Photography: Dean Wilmot

By Mandy Sinclair

Serving size: Serves 10 or more
Cooking time: Less than 60 minutes
Special options: Low fat, Nut free
Course: Dessert
Favourite flavours: Cakes/baking

Mandarin syrup cake

INGREDIENTS

1 ½ cups (225g) plain flour
½ cup (110g) caster sugar
2 teaspoons baking powder
grated rind of 1 mandarin
2 eggs, lightly beaten
1 cup (280g) low-fat yogurt
2 tablespoon mandarin juice
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Mandarin syrup
¾ cup (180ml) mandarin juice
1 tablespoon caster sugar
grated rind of 1 mandarin

METHOD

1. Preheat oven to 180C or 160C fan. Grease and line a 15cm x 25cm loaf pan.

2. Sift dry ingredients together into a bowl and stir through mandarin rind. Add combined eggs, yoghurt, juice and vanilla and mix until just combined. Pour into prepared pan, smoothing down top with a spatula. Bake for 45 minutes, until a skewer inserted comes out clean. Turn out onto a serving plate.

3. Meanwhile, simmer mandarin juice and sugar on low heat for 5 minutes, until reduced and syrupy. Stir in rind. Using a skewer, pierce a few holes over top of cake. While cake is still warm, slowly pour over half of syrup until it has been absorbed.

4. Serve in slices, drizzled with a little extra syrup.