Olive Oil Orange Cake
Italian-inspired olive oil cake with orange zest — moist, fragrant, and keeps well. Beating the eggs and sugar until genuinely pale and thickened before the olive oil goes in aerates the batter, giving the cake its light crumb despite the oil's richness.
Total time
50 min
Prep
10 min
Cook
40 min
Difficulty
medium
Cuisine
American
comfortbakingsweet
Ingredients
1 ½ cupsall-purpose flour
1 cupsugar
3large eggs
½ cupgood olive oil
½ cupwhole milk
zest of 2 oranges
juice of 1 orange
1 ½ tspbaking powder
pinch salt
powdered sugarto dust
Instructions
1
Beat eggs and sugar until pale.
2
Whisk in olive oil, milk, orange zest and juice.
3
Fold in flour, baking powder, salt.
4
Bake in greased 9-inch round at 350°F for 35-40 min.
5
Dust with powdered sugar.
Nutrition (estimated)
Per serving, based on a standard 4-serving portion and standard nutrition references — not a lab or USDA-verified measurement. Some ingredients in this recipe couldn't be matched to a reference value, so treat this as a rough estimate.
Calories
399
Protein
9.8g
Fat
5.8g
Carbs
77.6g
Fiber
0.8g
Sodium
197mg
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