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Mulberry Yoghurt Cake

There is an old mulberry tree down in the paddock behind the orchard. We think it was planted by CB’s great grandfather, so it is well over 100 years old. It has stood through storms and droughts, cold winters and hot summers. Each summer we traipse down the hill and spend a morning or two filling bowls and buckets (and our bellies too), with sweet, juicy mulberries. This year the weather must have been perfect for mulberry growing because they taste even more amazing than usual (if that is possible). They are exquisitely sweet and tangy, and juicy. The kids often just run down and grab a few off the tree as a sweet treat.

Mulberry Yoghurt Cake

Growing up, the lady across the road had a mulberry tree that my sisters and I used to raid for mulberry leaves to feed our pet silkworms which we got periodically (my parents weren’t into pets when I was young). We’d climb up high to get the best leaves, and if the mulberries were ripe, we’d pick a bowl at the same time. These days picking mulberries is one of those quintessential summer memories that I have, and want my kids to have to.

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With all the mulberries around, I made this deliciously moist mulberry yoghurt cake. If you don’t have a mulberry tree in your backyard, raspberries (or any other berry) would also work.

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Mulberry Yoghurt Cake
 
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Prep time
15 mins
Cook time
60 mins
Total time
1 hour 15 mins
 
Author: Jo @ Country Life Experiment
Ingredients
  • 150g butter
  • 1c sugar
  • 3 eggs
  • 1t vanilla extract
  • 1c yoghurt *
  • 2c SR flour
  • 1½c mulberries - use raspberries or blackberries if you don't have mulberries
Method
  1. Preheat the oven to 180*c
  2. Cream the butter and sugar together.
  3. Whisk in the egg and vanilla essence
  4. Beat in the yoghurt.
  5. Stir in the flour.
  6. Line a loaf tin with baking paper.
  7. Spoon a third of the mixture into the loaf tin.
  8. Spread a third of the mulberries into the mixture.
  9. Repeat twice more until all the mixture has been used up.
  10. Bake for one hour, or until the cake has set.
Notes
*I used berry yoghurt because that is what we had - vanilla or natural yoghurt would work well too
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  1. Meerfenchel says

    June 21, 2021 at 9:44 am

    This is an absolutely beautiful cake. We’ve just scarfed down two slices warm, and it is soft, buttery and full of vanilla and fruit flavors. Not too sweet. We foraged the mulberries from trees here in NYC!

    Note: I used plain, non-fat yogurt in the recipe. Thank you!

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  2. Sanchi says

    April 18, 2020 at 3:55 am

    Hi, I tried this but mine turned out to be super moist and just a little runny. Any ideas why this happened? It tastes absolutely delicious though

    Reply
    • Jo@CountryLifeExperiment says

      June 6, 2020 at 12:57 pm

      Perhaps your yoghurt wasn’t as thick? or the eggs were larger?

      Reply
  3. Nidhi says

    April 5, 2020 at 12:23 am

    Thanks for the nice recipe

    Reply
  4. Jo says

    October 25, 2017 at 11:22 am

    Hi jo, can this cake be frozen?

    Reply
    • Jo@CountryLifeExperiment says

      October 26, 2017 at 7:06 pm

      I haven’t tried, but it should be fine.

      Reply
    • nicole says

      July 13, 2019 at 7:44 am

      Yes….

      Reply
  5. domesblissity2013 says

    January 20, 2016 at 9:29 pm

    Hi Jo! You know I saw this pop up in my Facebook feed and I sudden craving for mulberries. I have absolutely wonderful memories of my childhood, eating mulberries from our tree in the backyard. If only I could find some. Might be time to plant a tree I think. Thank you so much for linking up. I always love your posts and appreciate you sharing them here. I’m featuring this one at tomorrow’s party. Have a great weekend!

    Anne @ Domesblissity xx

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  6. Laura says

    January 15, 2016 at 4:22 pm

    Thank you so much for the amazing Mulberry Yoghurt Cake recipe. We have 2 massive mulberry trees at the house we moved into 12 months ago. They are fruiting like crazy and we don’t know what to do with all of the fruit. Came upon your recipe and have to say we are all sitting here devouring it. Delicious!!

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    • Jo@CountryLifeExperiment says

      January 15, 2016 at 5:13 pm

      Glad you loved it! Try some mulberry jam, or you can freeze them in snap lock bags to eat later – think apple and mulberry crumble this winter! Delicious.

      Reply
  7. Sarah @ Say Little Hen says

    January 12, 2016 at 3:09 pm

    Needless to say, but I love mulberries. I’m so keen to get a tree growing here but apparently they don’t like wind so I’m struggling to find a sheltered spot for one on our sheltered block.
    I remember staying at my Pop’s farm as a child and on one trip we went to the neighbours and picked an armload of mulberries. They were so good!

    This cake looks delicious, I think I’ll be making it with raspberries x

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    • Jo@CountryLifeExperiment says

      January 15, 2016 at 5:15 pm

      Raspberries work well too!

      Reply
  8. jan2132 says

    January 11, 2016 at 7:49 am

    We had an enormous tree and we too used to climb it after school. Ours was not old, dad built the house but it grew quickly. Mum had a special pair of small, sharp scissors for snipping stalks and she would cook them to go on cereal. I love them with fresh cream and my brother liked them with icecream. Fresh cream came from the poultry farm two doors down where the farmer kept two cows as well. All this is now suburban Sydney but was sem-rural at the time.

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