Italian Olive Oil Cake – How to Make the Easiest Cake Ever – Food Wishes


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Learn how to make cake with olive oil instead of butter, which might sound a little bit strange, but it works really, really well.

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  1. KittenBowl
    KittenBowl says:

    If you want to avoid the deflated center, you can drop the sponge cake in the mold several times onto a hard surface (like a hard countertop and not wooden surface) and that would prevent that. It needs to be dropped several inches for several times as soon as it comes out of oven. Professional patisserie and many bakers that make soft bread in a mold do that to prevent deflated top.
    If you want to reduce the oil (as oils are expensive these days and especially olive oil), you can replace with apple sauce up to half the oil amount. You won’t be able to tell there’s apple in it. But lighter and not as oily as the original. There’re many variations of this cake I’ve seen. Some people add fruits like sliced apples or berries. You also don’t have to use olive oil, whatever the light tasting vegetable oil would work (canola, rice bran (delicious), corn etc).

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  2. lgpoole
    lgpoole says:

    so disappointed! This is the second recipe that I have tried to make olive cake. Three times my cake fell. This cake fell only in center and toooo dry in rest of cake. Top half is sort of dry but bottom half is a darker color. I was recommended to use Chef John's recipe but it did not work for me either. Suggestions appreciated.

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  3. cielo1974
    cielo1974 says:

    Just made this cake for my husband’s birthday. The recipe I used called for Grand Marnier. Next time I will used candied Orange peel or at the least use a vegetable peeler for the orange ribs and chop up the peel with some sugar. Your video inspired me to make it again—and this time take it out of the oven when it’s a little underdone.

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  4. Milen
    Milen says:

    Thank you chef John. I wonder what will happen if I replace part of the olive oil with melted butter. Texture wise and taste wise. I love how butter tastes in deserts.

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  5. J L
    J L says:

    Maybe use different narrators in case voices are off putting with their sing songiness and kermitty (like the frog) sounding voices (tho Kermit’s voice is more laid back and relaxed and cool)

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  6. Panagiotes Koutelidakes
    Panagiotes Koutelidakes says:

    There is a similar style of cake from Greece that is tied into religious practices; called fanouropita, and coming in too many variations to account for, it's a relatively flat cake (i.e. properly leavened, but not quite as fully puffed as modern cakes), and the name has to do with preparing these cakes on Mondays, which are sort of associated with Saint Fanourios, whose name (and whose portfolio) is itself associated with "revelation" — in common usage, referring to helping people find things, solutions to problems etc. So people bake these cakes for two reasons: either plainly as an offering, or in order to placate the Saint to help them!

    They are also quite delicious, but people always fight about which versions of the cake they like the most, and believe you me: they are vastly different from each other…

    P.S.: In keeping with the need to be available for Lent, our cakes have no eggs, and orange juice replaces the milk.

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