ORANGE OLIVE OIL CAKE
 
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Adapted from Smitten Kitchen
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Recipe type: Cake, Sweet
Serves: 10-12
Ingredients
  • 3 oranges (you might need a fourth one for the juice)
  • 2 cups+1 Tbs flour (290 gr)
  • 1 cup+3 Tbs sugar (240 gr)
  • ⅔ cup yogurt or buttermilk (160 gr)
  • 4 large eggs
  • ¾ cup EVOO (175 ml)
  • ⅓ cup orange juice (80 ml) from the oranges we already have
  • 2 tsp baking powder
  • ½ tsp baking soda
  • ½ tsp salt
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 180 C (350 F), butter and flour your cake tin and place baking parchment on the bottom. I used a 10 inch round cake tin.
  2. Finely grate the zest of oranges and using your fingers rub with the sugar.
  3. Supreme the oranges; start by trimming off the top and bottom of the fruit with a sharp knife. Set the fruit on your cutting board and carefully cut the skin, beginning on the top and following the curves down, making sure to remove the pith. Then take the peeled fruit into your palm and cut out each section of the fruit by inserting the knife between the flesh and the membrane on both sides. Then cut each segment into small pieces.
  4. Squeeze the membrane into a bowl and mesure 80 ml juice, if it's not enough cut the fourth orange. Mix the juice with yogurt and add to the sugar, whisk well using a stand mixer or a hand held one.
  5. Add the eggs one by one, whisking well after each addition.
  6. Add the olive oil and whisk at medium high speed for 5 minutes.
  7. Mix the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt in a bowl and sift onto the wet ingredients, gently stir. Add in the orange segments and pour batter into the cake tin.
  8. Bake for 40-45 minutes until it's golden. Cool for 5-10 minutes before you unmold, Let cool completely on a cooling rack.
Notes
It freezes really well, make sure to wrap it tightly with cling film.

It is very important to whisk the batter well once you add in the olive oil, never happened to me but otherwise the oil can settle at the bottom.
Recipe by HatiBon English at https://www.hatibon.com/blog/2016/04/orange-olive-oil-cake/