Italian Apple Olive Oil Cake (Recipe)

Jan 6, 2024

Italian Apple Olive Oil Cake (Recipe)

Ingredients:

 1 cup Extra Virgin Olive Oil, divided (I use Kasandrinos)

 2 large Gala apples, peeled and chopped as finely as possible

 3 cups all purpose whole wheat flour or (all-purpose flour)

 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon

 1/2 tsp ground nutmeg

 1 tsp baking powder

 1 cup sugar

 2 large eggs

 2/3 cup gold raisins, soaked in warm water for 15 minutes and then drained well

✅ Confectioner’s sugar for dusting

Instructions

 Preheat oven to 350F.

 Place the chopped apples in a bowl and add orange juice; just enough juice to toss and coat apples so as to prevent browning.

 In a large mixing bowl sift together the flour, cinnamon, nutmeg, baking powder and baking soda. Set aside for now

 In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with a whisk, add sugar and extra virgin olive oil. Mix on low for 2 minutes until well-combined

 While mixer is on, add the eggs, one at a time, and continue to mix another 2 minutes until mixture increases in volume (it should be thicker but still runny)

 In the large bowl with the dry ingredients, make a well in the middle of the flour mixture. Add the wet mixture (the sugar and olive oil mixture) into the well. Using a wooden spoon, stir until just blended; it will be a thick batter (do not add anything to loosen it).

 Drain raisins (which have been soaking in water) completely; and rid apples of excess juice. Add both raisins and apples to the batter and mix with spoon until well-combined. Again, batter will be fairly thick.

 Line a 9-inch cake pan with parchment paper. Spoon thick batter into the pan, and level the top with the back of your wooden spoon.

 Bake in 350 degrees F for 45 minutes or until an inserted tooth pick or wooden skewer comes out clean.

Then cool completely in pan. When ready, simply lift parchment up to transfer cake into a serving dish. Dust with confectioner’s sugar. Alternatively, heat some dark honey to serve on top (those with a sweeter tooth like this option.)

Enjoy!!