Spanish Olive Oil Cake with Lemon and Almonds

This Spanish olive oil cake with lemon and almonds is easy and delicious. Olive oil cakes are moist and rich, usually combined with citrus and bursting with flavour, so you could substitute the lemons for any other citrus fruit.

Prep time Cook time 50 mins

Ingredients

Serves: 8 slices

180gms  plain flour

30gms finely ground almonds

¼ teaspoon of salt

2 tap baking powder

200gms of granulated sugar

Zest from two lemons

3 large eggs

60ml freshly squeezed lemon juice

220ml full fat unsweetened Greek yogurt

160 Spanish extra virgin olive oil

Powdered sugar to top the cake

Instructions

Preheat your oven to 190ºc and then grease and flour a 9½ cake tin.

In a medium sized bowl mix together the flour, ground almonds, salt and baking powder.

Massage the lemon zest into the sugar by rubbing it with your fingers, allowing the sugar to become infused with the zest's flavour.

In a separate bowl, beat the sugar and eggs on medium high (I use a hand mixer) for about two minutes (the mixture should have doubled in size and lightened in colour).

Now, whisk in the lemon juice and Greek yogurt on a low speed.

Finally, add the olive oil by slowly drizzling it in while mixing on low.

When combined, fold in the flour mixture by hand using a rubber spatula. Stop mixing as soon as everything is combined-- you don't want to over mix.

Pour the batter into the greased and floured cake pan and bake about 50 minutes in a preheated (190°c) oven (or until a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out with only a few crumbs).

Take your cake out of the oven and let cool for at least 20 minutes before removing from the cake pan. Right before serving dust with powdered sugar.

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