Olive oil orange cake.
Sunny, fragrant and moist for days. Made with olive oil, no butter.
- Prep
- 15 min
- Bake
- 45 min
- Makes
- 1 cake, 10 slices
Olive oil makes this cake impossibly moist without any butter. Whole orange zest gives it a bright, grown-up flavour.
Laura
Ingredients
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Method
- Heat the oven to 350°F (175°C). Oil and line a 9-inch round pan.
- Whisk the sugar, zest and eggs for 2 minutes until pale and fluffy.
- Slowly whisk in the olive oil and orange juice.
- Fold in both flours, baking powder and salt.
- Pour into the pan, top with thin orange slices and bake for 40 to 45 minutes, until golden and a skewer comes out clean.
- Cool, then dust with icing sugar.
