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Easy Olive Oil Cake

Francois de Melogue
2 min readAug 15, 2021

Easy Olive Oil Cake

A Quick and Easy Cake that is Forgiving

It’s Sunday — Are you looking for a quick and easy dessert that will surely brighten your day? Do you like moist easy to bake cakes? The good news is you probably already have all the ingredients sitting in your cupboards. One of the things I love most about this cake is it is extremely forgiving and adaptable. I have swapped out peaches for blueberries, yogurt for milk, added this, removed that — and it still comes out perfectly moist.

Easy Olive Oil Cake, photo by Francois de Melogue

Olive Oil Cake

PREP: 15 minutes | COOK: 50 minutes | MAKES: 10 servings

ingredients

· 2 large eggs

· 1–1/2 cups granulated sugar

· 1–1/2 cups all-purpose flour

· 1/2 cup fine almond flour + extra for dusting the cake pan (optional)

· 1 teaspoon baking powder

· 1/2 teaspoon baking soda

· 1/2 teaspoon fine sea salt

· ½ cup Bulgarian yogurt (my favorite brand is White Mountain Foods) or milk

· 1 cup fruity extra-virgin olive oil

· 1 teaspoon almond extract (optional)

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Francois de Melogue
Francois de Melogue

Written by Francois de Melogue

My earliest attempt at cookery began with the filleting of my sister's goldfish at age 2 and cooking my pet rabbits by age 7. Life has been downhill ever since.

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