Desserts
Olive Oil & Orange Cake
A one-bowl cake that tastes like Sunday afternoons on the coast — fragrant, tender, barely sweet.
- Time
- 55 min
- Servings
- Serves 8
- Difficulty
- Easy
Ingredients
AI scale8servings
Original: Serves 8- 1 cup extra-virgin olive oil
- 1 cup sugar
- 3 eggs
- Zest and juice of 2 oranges
- 1 1/2 cups flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp salt
- Powdered sugar, to finish
Method
- 1
Heat oven to 350°F. Line a 9-inch pan with parchment.
- 2
Whisk sugar, eggs and zest until pale. Stream in olive oil.
- 3
Fold in flour, baking powder, salt and orange juice.
- 4
Pour into the pan and bake 35–40 minutes, until a skewer comes out clean.
- 5
Cool, dust with powdered sugar, slice thick.
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