Receta Recipe For Olive Oil Cake
B-well sent me a bottle of their extra virgin olive oil and canola oil mix to try out. I use olive oil every day for my cooking and canola oil for my mayonnaise and salad dressing. I tried the oil in my mayonnaise but the olive oil taste is far too distinct for my palate. However, I have been using it for my cooking and it is perfect. This therefore is a great addition to my pantry and a product I know I will use more often. Given the high smoke point of the oil it can be used when cooking stir fry’s, and it is healthy to boot. When looking at how good an oil is for you, take a look at the saturated fat value as well as the monounsaturated fat value. B-well oil has a combined value of 64% monounsaturated fats.
Given that I was asked to use the oil in a recipe, and that I have wanted to make an olive oil cake for some time, this seemed like the great way to try out the oil. I could not find a recipe in any of my numerous books and so I turned to the web and found Nigella Lawson’s recipe. I could not imagine that her recipe would be anything but perfect and so I set myself the task of baking this cake at the weekend. It was amazing and you would not know that it had used oil instead of butter in the batter. In fact, I might make more cakes with oil in the future.
- Olive Oil Cake with a Cream Cheese Frosting
- Olive Oil Cake
- Ingredients:
- 40g cocoa powder
- 125mls boiling water
- 10mls vanilla extract
- 135g flour
- 2.5mls bicarbonate of soda
- A pinch of salt
- 160mls olive oil
- 185g caster sugar - I used fructose
- 3 eggs
Method:
Preheat the oven to 170° Celsius
Grease and line a springform baking tin
Sift the cocoa into a small bowl and whisk in the water until smooth
Add the vanilla and whisk to mix
Set aside to cool
Place the flour, bicarbonate of soda and salt into a bowl and mix
Place the olive oil, sugar and eggs into the bowl of your stand mixer
Using the paddle attachment, cream the mixture until pale and thick
Start off on a slow speed and increase to a medium to high setting after 1 minute
Lower the speed and pour in the cocoa mixture
Mix until completely combined
Add the flour a tablespoon at a time, making sure it is completely mixed in after each addition
Pour the mixture into your cake tin and bake for 40 minutes
Remove from the oven and cool on a cake rack, in the tin for 10 minutes
Remove from the tin and carefully remove the baking paper
Leave to cool completely before icing
Cooks Notes:
This cake lasted us 4 days and was perfectly moist. I topped it with a cream cheese frosting
2.6
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Disclaimer: I was sent a bottle of B-well oil to use in a recipe. This post is in line with my blogging policy.
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About Tandy Sinclair
I am passionate about regional, sustainable and seasonal produce. I live in Gordons Bay in a cottage with my husband, our three dogs, a tortoise and a fish. We are busy building a house which is an adventure all in itself. Each year we visit a new place to experience the food of the area.