Hi everyone!
My husband´s birthday was on Friday and he requested that I make his favourite cake, which is this chocolate olive oil cake. I know that chocolate and olive oil see like a peculiar combination but the result is a super smooth and delicious cake. No traces of olive oil flavouring…Just yummy dark chocolate. It is easy to make and definitely worth a go! I got the recipe from http://bluestarfoodie.com and I just have to share it!
You will need two 20cm sandwich tins
Heatproof bowl and saucepan of simmering water
Ingredients for cake:
125g self raising flour
1/2tsp bicarbonate of soda
200g caster sugar
3 eggs
150ml extra virgin olive oil (plus extra for greasing and drizzling)
50g cocoa (i used a good quality cocoa form Valor)
125ml hot water
For olive oil ganache:
200g dark chocolate suitable for baking
150ml double cream
1tsbp extra virgin olive oil
Method:
Preheat oven to gas mark 4, (220°)line and grease the sandwich tins with a little olive oil and baking parchment.
Start by combining the eggs, sugar and olive oil, whisking with an electric beater to create a pale and fluffy creamy mixture.
Mix together the hot water and cocoa to form a thick and lusciously chocolatey paste, leaving to cool slightly before adding into the egg mixture and beating well.
Sift in the flour and bicarb, folding gently until achieving a smooth chocolate cake batter.
Divide between the sandwich tins and bake on a middle-high shelf in the oven for around 40 minutes. (My oven was different. It took only 25 minutes and I put a sheet of foil over the pans to keep the tops from burning.) Every oven is different so never completely trust baking times. Keep it in the oven until skewer inserted into the middle of each cake comes out clean. Leave to cool in their tins for 10 minutes before transferring the cakes to a cooling rack.
Meanwhile, create the ganache. Begin by gently melting 200g dark chocolate in a heatproof bowl over a pan of simmering water. Be careful that the bottom of the bowl does not touch the water in the pan, otherwise the chocolate will begin to burn and melt too quickly. Heat the double cream until almost boiling and pour over the melted chocolate, stirring with a whisk to create a luxuriously glossy sheen. Add the tablespoon of extra virgin olive oil for even more shine and fruity, savoury flavour.
Take 1/3 of the ganache and spread between the two cakes, spooning the remaining 2/3 over the top and down the sides of the cake.
This cake is truly excellent. Not too rich and just perfect.
Same cake on a different occasion!
I hope you like this too!
xxxx Natascha
This cake looks so moist and tasty, I feel like grabbing a slice right now! 🙂
Haha! Thank you so so much! ❤❤❤
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Gorgeous. I bet it doesn’t last long
Thank you so so much! There is a tiny slice left…I am waiting for my husband to attack it before I do haha!
Happy belated birthday to your hubby 🙂 . This cake looks amazing. Nothing beats a lovely moist cake. Looking forward to trying this ! x
Hi! Thank you so much! I hope you like it too! Enjoy the rest of your weekend! ❤❤❤❤❤
What a lucky husband you have. It looks moist and delicious!
Thank you so much. He spoils me so much and it is a pleasure to do the same for him! ❤❤❤❤👍👍👍👍
Delicious! Divine!
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Oh My!! That looks ultra moist! So delicious!!
Belated birthday wishes to your husband 🙂
Hi! Thank you so much! Hope you had a super weekend! xxxx
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Mmmmmm looks delish…so moist 🙂
Thank you! xxxx
so rich and moist 🙂 awesome!
Thank you so much! My husband was pretty happy and i confess, so was I! xxxx
My partner’s birthday was on friday too! And I also made him a chocolate cake 😉 xo
Really?! Well this indisputably confirms two things. We are very intelligent women and men born on April 15th have exceptionally good taste in women! hahahah!!!!! Hope you had a lovely evening with him and no doubt your cake was fabulous! xxxx
Hahaha This comment was so funny! You crack me up Natascha 😀
Haha…I knew you would like that one. Modesty isn’t honesty! 😂
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The cake looks so moist and delicious, and your decorations are so cute 😀 I hope he had a wonderful birthday!
Thank you so much! He was super happy and I gave him a Lego Star Wars Millenium Falcon. He has always wanted one since he was a boy! His colleagues are so jealous hahaha!
I’ve never mixed an olive oil cake with chocolate, it looks brilliant! Totally moist! Although I would have been satisfied with your adorable heart-shaped candy decoration idea! 🙂
Oh thank you so much. Trust me…no olive oil flavour whatsoever. Just a rich chocolate flavour. This is easy to make and whenever I make it, people go on about it and ask me for some to take home with them! 😍😍😍❤❤❤😙😙👍👍👍
Success! 😉
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Do wish him on my behalf..it’s a lovely cake…He is very lucky to have you as a wife!
Thank you so much! ❤❤❤❤😙😙😙😙