Orange cake with olive oil

A recipe for orange cake with olive oil, a delicious sweet winter recipe. Moist and a delicious orange flavor combined with sea salt.

When surfing on the web I came across the recipe for an orange cake, which is published in a cookbook from Saveur : Italian comfort. What a delicious cake, when this is the standard for the rest of the book I can definitely recommend it. The cake gots a fun orange flavor and is airy, smells delicious, moist and a hint of olive oil. A real cake for winter times.

Recipe Orange cake with olive oil

Orange cake with olive oil

A recipe for orange cake with olive oil, a delicious sweet winter recipe. Moist and a delicious orange flavor combined with sea salt.

5 from 12 votes

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Servings 8 pieces

Course: Cake, Pie, cake and tarts

Prep Time: 1 hour

Cook Time: 45 minutes

Total Time: 1 hour 45 minutes

Equipment

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  convectional oven or conventional oven (in that case increase the temperature indicated in the recipe by 20 degrees Celsius)

Ingredients 

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• 2 oranges
• 450 grams sugar
• olive oil for brushing the tin
• 325 grams flour
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 teaspoon sodium bicarbonate
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 4 eggs size L
• 6 tablespoons olive oil olive oil with lemon is extra tasty but not necessary
• 30 ml orange juice
• 15 grams confectioners sugar
• 1 teaspoon sea salt or fleur de sel

Metric - US Customary

Instructions

• Wash the oranges and cut a slice of the bottom and top with a sharp knife.
• Cut the orange into thin slices, remove the pits.
• In a large pan, pour 1.5 liters of water and bring to the boil.
• Add the oranges and bring to the boil again.
• Drain and again bring 1.5 liters of water to the boil, add the oranges, bring to a boil again. Repeat this last step one more time.
• Finally add 1 liter of water to the pan and 200 grams of sugar. Boil while stirring to dissolve the sugar.
• When that happens, put the slices of orange into the pan. Boil for 30 minutes, remove the pan from the heat and allow to cool to room temperature.
• Preheat the oven to 180 degrees Celsius.
• Brush a 23 cm cake tin with olive oil. Sprinkle with flour, turn around and knock out the flour.
• Put a baking paper on the bottom of the tin.
• Grind the sugar orange with the orange juice.
• Put them in a bowl and add the flour, baking powder, purification salt, vanilla extract, eggs and olive oil and mix with the mixer for 3 minutes until it's airy and creamy.
• Pour the batter into the baking tin and put it in the oven.
• Bake the cake for 45 minutes until it is golden brown and cooked.
• Let the cake cool for 5 minutes and then take it out of the spring form.
• Put on a grid that you put on a baking plate (against leakage of the glaze).
• Prick some holes in the top of the cake.
• Prepare the icing by mixing the orange juice with the powdered sugar.
• With a brush, spread the icing on the top and sides of the cake.
• Sprinkle the salt.
• Allow to cool to room temperature.

Nutrition

Calories: 517kcal | Carbohydrates: 94g | Protein: 7g | Fat: 13g | Saturated Fat: 2g | Cholesterol: 82mg | Sodium: 461mg | Potassium: 242mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 62g | Vitamin A: 200IU | Vitamin C: 19mg | Calcium: 75mg | Iron: 2mg

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