Portuguese Olive Oil Orange Cake
By: KosherScene
Published: Tuesday, November 16, 2010 - 3:13pm

Ingredients




Wet Ingredients
1 1/2 cups extra virgin olive oil
1 1/2 cups orange juice, preferably freshly squeezed
5 eggs
Dry Ingredients
3 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1 3/4 teaspoons kosher salt
3 cups granulated sugar
3 zest of oranges
Glaze
1 cup confectioner sugar
2 teaspoons of orange juice

Preparation

1 Beat eggs lightly in large mixing bowl. 2 Slowly add sugar to the eggs until light colored and thicken into a ribbon consistency. 3 In a separate bowl, sift flour, baking powder and salt. 4 Add orange juice to egg mixture. 5 Mix until fully incorporated. 6 Add olive oil and flower alternating little by little into egg mixture until fully incorporated. 7 Mix until it becomes a nice batter with ribbon consistency. 8 Mix zest into batter. 9 Take a Bund pan and spray it with cooking spray. 10 Pour batter into Bund pan. 11 Bake at 350 F for 1:15 minutes or until tooth pick comes out clean. 12 Cool for 30-60 minutes. 13 Combine glaze thoroughly and drop on cake.

About


Mark Green, Executive Chef at Brooklyn's Glatt A La Carte, shared this recipe with me.