Italian Olive Oil Cake - How to Make the Easiest Cake Ever - Food Wishes

If you like blackberry honey try pumpkin blossom honey. It is on another level

Yeah but it’s the American touch of sugar…sorry John 😂

Why didn’t chef John raise me with that calm voice, no drama and no perfectionism?

Nice recipe BUT too much sugar :); so mine came out great with 3/4 cup sugar :)

By the way guys, Wax in your Cake will be playing at Gabe's this weekend, no cover charge

This is not best cake I’ve ever had but considering how easy it is, it’s okay. It is not very flavourful even when I used really good quality cold pressed olive oil. The texture is also not so good. It is neither dense, nor spongy, it is awkwardly in between. The crumb of the cake is not so good. And of course it is too oily. I probably would not make it again. This is definitely not a dessert, it’s just a casual snacking cake.

Thanks so much 🫒🎂🥖

Steph and clays!

Disagree.

Urinal cakes are the most easy.

If you want to avoid the deflated center, you can drop the sponge cake in the mold several times onto a hard surface (like a hard countertop and not wooden surface) and that would prevent that. It needs to be dropped several inches for several times as soon as it comes out of oven. Professional patisserie and many bakers that make soft bread in a mold do that to prevent deflated top.
If you want to reduce the oil (as oils are expensive these days and especially olive oil), you can replace with apple sauce up to half the oil amount. You won’t be able to tell there’s apple in it. But lighter and not as oily as the original. There’re many variations of this cake I’ve seen. Some people add fruits like sliced apples or berries. You also don’t have to use olive oil, whatever the light tasting vegetable oil would work (canola, rice bran (delicious), corn etc).

In the oven now…can’t wait!

What size springform pan do you use? I didn't see the measurments listed in the recipe.

😂 a few words and stop- a few words and stop

so disappointed! This is the second recipe that I have tried to make olive cake. Three times my cake fell. This cake fell only in center and toooo dry in rest of cake. Top half is sort of dry but bottom half is a darker color. I was recommended to use Chef John's recipe but it did not work for me either. Suggestions appreciated.

Just made this cake for my husband’s birthday. The recipe I used called for Grand Marnier. Next time I will used candied Orange peel or at the least use a vegetable peeler for the orange ribs and chop up the peel with some sugar. Your video inspired me to make it again—and this time take it out of the oven when it’s a little underdone.

This looks similar to my grandma cake, only she used yogurt instead of milk and a bit of cocoa to marble the top. Yum 😊

This is just adorable! And I think the Olive Oil Substitutes the Butter here and might be a nice hack for the Vegan enthusiast in you.

little touch of sugar LOL

Thank you chef John. I wonder what will happen if I replace part of the olive oil with melted butter. Texture wise and taste wise. I love how butter tastes in deserts.

DEFINITELY get some different narrators

Maybe use different narrators in case voices are off putting with their sing songiness and kermitty (like the frog) sounding voices (tho Kermit’s voice is more laid back and relaxed and cool)

We gonna sneaking in a lil' touch of sugar. PROCEEDS to dump a whole bowl 💀 😭

There is a similar style of cake from Greece that is tied into religious practices; called fanouropita, and coming in too many variations to account for, it's a relatively flat cake (i.e. properly leavened, but not quite as fully puffed as modern cakes), and the name has to do with preparing these cakes on Mondays, which are sort of associated with Saint Fanourios, whose name (and whose portfolio) is itself associated with "revelation" — in common usage, referring to helping people find things, solutions to problems etc. So people bake these cakes for two reasons: either plainly as an offering, or in order to placate the Saint to help them!

They are also quite delicious, but people always fight about which versions of the cake they like the most, and believe you me: they are vastly different from each other...

P.S.: In keeping with the need to be available for Lent, our cakes have no eggs, and orange juice replaces the milk.

A touch of sugar :D

What’s with not giving measurements ???

Perfection ❤

I always use oil in cakes works a treat

Holy sugar 😂 wow

How much quantity of oil, flour and other ingredients is needed?

Picturing another oil but oregano leaves have been fried in it.

"Tappa tappa" has ABSOLUTELY NO effect whatsoever.

Looks delicious. By the way, don't worry about the French b/c they just don't make good cake. Bisous de la France

How much is "some flour Or some sugar"???

Thanks for the "touch of sugar", there's now coffee all over my notebook XD

Chef John, can fresh squeezed blood orange juice be used instead of milk?

Ah yes the old tappa! tappa! it's been a long time since we had a good tappa tappa

You should tap that any chance you get.

I googled "blackberry honey" and my parents grounded me.

Serve it with a dollop or two of Greek style yogurt and a spoon or two of honey alongside a cup of coffee. Awesome.

Blackberry honey? Yes please

I really want to like this guys' videos but I seriously cannot stand the way he talks. Who the hell talks like that..? I can't get more than 30 seconds in.

I didn't know this was a thing, does the name come just because of the olive oil? My mum has been replacing part of the butter for a very long time in an attempt to make them more healthy; and that was generally with all cakes.

You had me at mix everything in a bowl and bake it.

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Chef, Im wondering if lemon olive will work as well?? Also, maybe you get into honey!?

Made this today, came out beautiful 🤗😋❤️

LOVED this.. Just one problem like yours my center was not done all the way.. How do I get that done w/out over baking the rest of the cake??

I want olive oil cake next to some olive oil ice cream 🤗

No one is totally distracted by the up and down cadence on his voice? Just me?? I thought it was hilarious - but was it really supposed to be?