Lemon Pound Cake with Mixed Berries

Draper says she will never reveal the original recipe for her grandmother Alice Walker's lemon pound cake, but her lighter variation pays tribute to it. Use any combination of berries you like for the topping.

Yield: 8 servings

Ingredients

• Cake:
• Cooking spray
• 2  teaspoons  all-purpose flour
• 1  cup  all-purpose flour
• 1/4  teaspoon  baking powder
• 2/3  cup  sugar
• 1/3  cup  butter, softened
• 2  large egg whites
• 1  large egg
• 1  teaspoon  grated lemon rind
• 1  teaspoon  lemon extract
• 1/4  cup  vanilla low-fat yogurt
• 
  Topping:
• 1  cup  sliced strawberries
• 1/2  cup  fresh blueberries or blackberries
• 1  (10-ounce) package frozen raspberries in light syrup, thawed and undrained
• 1  cup  vanilla low-fat yogurt

Preparation

Preheat oven to 350°.

Coat an 8 x 4-inch loaf pan with cooking spray; dust with 2 teaspoons flour.

Lightly spoon 1 cup flour into a dry measuring cup; level with a knife. Combine 1 cup flour and baking powder, stirring with a whisk; set aside.

Place sugar and butter in a large bowl; beat with a mixer at high speed until fluffy (about 2 minutes). Add egg whites and egg, beating well after each addition. Beat in rind and extract. Add flour mixture and 1/4 cup yogurt alternately to sugar mixture, beginning and ending with flour mixture; mix well after each addition. Spoon batter into prepared pan. Bake at 350° for 45 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool in pan 10 minutes on wire rack; remove from pan. Cool completely on wire rack.

To prepare topping, combine berries, tossing well. Cut cake into 8 slices. Top each cake slice with 1/4 cup berry mixture and 2 tablespoons yogurt.

Nutritional Information

Calories:

286 (28% from fat)

Fat:

9g (sat 5.3g,mono 2.6g,poly 0.5g)

Protein:

5.8g

Carbohydrate:

46.7g

Fiber:

2.8g

Cholesterol:

49mg

Iron:

1.2mg

Sodium:

141mg

Calcium:

92mg