Fast and Easy Cake!

Fast and Easy Cake! 1 cup all-purpose flour 3/4 cup granulated sugar ½ cup plain yogurt or sour cream 1/4 cup softened butter (NOT melted!) 1/4 cup orange juice, brandy, or water - your choice! ½ teaspoon baking soda ½ teaspoon baking powder 1 large egg 1 teaspoon vanilla extract Zest of one lemon Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Use vegetable oil spray to grease an 8-inch round our square baking pan. In a large mixing bowl, combine all the ingredients and mix until well combined. Try not to over beat. Spread batter into your prepared pan. Bake for approximately 30 minutes or until cake springs back when touched. Cool and remove from the pan to a rack to cool completely. This is a simple cake that goes well with ice cream, diced fruit, chocolate sauce, a thin vanilla or lemon icing . . . Ideas . . . This can turn into a pineapple upside down cake! After you spray your baking pan, put down a layer of brown sugar topped with about five thin pieces of butter and then crushed, canned pineapple. Spread you cake batter carefully over this and bake as directed. Cool for ten minutes or so and then invert it onto a serving plate. Easiest way is to place the plate on top of the cake and then holding plate and cake pan together, turn over, tap, and it should come out fairly easily. Remember to run a knife around the edge of the cake, too. Adding 1/4 cup of tiny chocolate chips to the batter makes an entirely different cake. Remember 1/4 to 1/3 cup of nuts added to the batter can only turn out well! Don’t forget toasted coconut!