GREEK ALMOND AND YOGHURT CAKE

Ingredients ......3 eggs separated , 2/3 rds of brown sugar , 3 tbs of Greek yoghurt , grated zest of 1 lemon , 160 gm of almond meal . Lightly grease a 23 cm round springform pan and line the base with baking paper . Preheat your oven to 180 deg C . In the bowl of your electric mixer , WHISK the egg yolks and sugar until creamy . Stir in the yoghurt, lemon zest and ground almond meal . In another bowl , whip the egg whites until stiff . Now fold whipped the egg whites through the almond mixture . Spoon the mixture into the prepared pan and bake for 35 minutes in the preheated oven . The cake will be cooked when skewered with a skewer comes out clean . Cool the cake in the pan on a wire rack . When cool turn out onto a serving plate . This is delicious and can be served with fresh fruit slices or just sprinkled with icing sugar and enjoyed with coffee or tea .