Chocolate Orange Olive Oil Cake

Chocolate Orange Olive Oil Cake

Ingredients

  • Cocoa
  • Baking Powder
  • Salt
  • Sugar
  • Olive Oil
  • Milk
  • Orange Zest

Instructions

  1. Heat the oven to 170°C (fan) and line a 20 cm round cake tin with baking parchment.
  2. In a large bowl whisk together the flour, cocoa, baking powder and salt.
  3. In a jug whisk the sugar, eggs, olive oil, milk, orange zest and orange juice until smooth.
  4. Pour the wet mixture into the dry ingredients and whisk gently until just combined. Fold in the chocolate chips.
  5. Scrape the batter into the tin and smooth the top.
  6. Bake for 35–40 minutes, or until a skewer comes out with just a few moist crumbs.
  7. Cool in the tin for 10 minutes, then move to a rack. Dust with cocoa or icing sugar before serving.
  8. Pink milk

Notes

A deeply chocolatey cake with a gentle hint of orange and the soft crumb you get from baking with olive oil. It feels a little bit special but is easy enough for a weekday pudding.

This one is lovely served just warm with a spoon of yoghurt or crème fraîche, and it keeps well for a couple of days in a tin.