This easy, one-bowl, no-mixer cake is a my new favorite lemon dessert. That’s a huge statement because this Copycat Starbucks Lemon Loaf with hundreds of glowing reviews is very hard to beat. The olive oil lemon cake itself if not overly sweet, which I appreciated since it’s rich from the olive oil. This is an excellent cake for holiday parties and events. It is a talking piece kind of cake rather than just another chocolate cake that we’ve all had a zillion times. Unique and different in the best possible way. It would be the perfect cake to serve after a fancier dinner party with equally rich or luxurious food. I liken olive oil cake to cakes served in fancy restaurants. They are never sugar bombs – even the chocolate ones. They are more refined and tend to have unique flavor pairings that you don’t encounter often.
Ingredients in Lemon Olive Oil Cake
To make this supremely moist lemon cake recipe with olive oil, you’ll need:
Extra virgin olive oil Eggs Whole milk Lemon juice and zest Limoncello (store-bought or homemade) Lemon extract Granulated sugar All-purpose flour Kosher salt Baking powder and baking soda Confectioners’ sugar
How to Make Lemon Olive Oil Cake
This recipe for Italian lemon cake with olive oil is incredibly easy to make! Here’s a look at how it comes together: A note about the bake time: This limoncello cake bakes in a fairly cool oven for a long duration, low and slow. Start checking your cake at 60 minutes, but due to oven and climate variances it could take as long as 75 minutes or so to bake; watch you cake and not the clock.
Recipe Video
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