Olive Oil Cake With Honeyed Apples Recipes

ITALIAN APPLE OLIVE OIL CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
• Place the chopped apples in a bowl and add orange juice; just enough juice to toss and coat apples so as to prevent browning.
• In a large mixing bowl sift together the flour, cinnamon, nutmeg, baking powder and baking soda. Set aside for now
• In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with a whisk, add sugar and extra virgin olive oil. Mix on low for 2 minutes until well-combined
• While mixer is on, add the eggs, one at a time, and continue to mix another 2 minutes until mixture increases in volume (it should be thicker but still runny)
• In the large bowl with the dry ingredients, make a well in the middle of the flour mixture. Add the wet mixture (the sugar and olive oil mixture) into the well. Using a wooden spoon, stir until just blended; it will be a thick batter (do not add anything to loosen it).
• Drain raisins (which have been soaking in water) completely; and rid apples of excess juice. Add both raisins and apples to the batter and mix with spoon until well-combined. Again, batter will be fairly thick.
• Line a 9-inch cake pan with parchment paper. Spoon thick batter into the pan, and level the top with the back of your wooden spoon.
• Bake in 350 degrees F for 45 minutes or until an inserted tooth pick or wooden skewer comes out clean.
• Cool completely in pan. When ready, simply lift parchment up to transfer cake into a serving dish. Dust with confectioner's sugar. Alternatively, heat some dark honey to serve on top (those with a sweeter tooth like this option.)

OLIVE-OIL-AND-APPLE-CIDER CAKE

Steps:

• Place the apples and 1/2 cup apple cider in a small saucepan. Cover and bring to a boil. Lower the heat and simmer for 10 minutes, or until the apples are falling apart. Mash the apples with a fork to make a coarse applesauce.
• Preheat the oven to 325 degrees. Brush a bundt pan or 10-inch tube pan with a light coating of the olive oil. Dust the pan with 1 tablespoon of the flour and tap out any excess.
• Combine the flour, baking powder and salt in a bowl and set aside. Stir together the remaining cider and 1/2 cup of the applesauce.
• In a large bowl, whip the eggs with the sugar until tripled in volume, about 8 minutes. Fold in 1/3 of the dry ingredients until just combined. Fold in half of the cider-applesauce mixture. Gently fold in the olive oil, deflating the batter as little as possible. Alternate the remaining dry ingredients and the cider mixture, ending with dry ingredients. Gently pour the batter into the prepared pan and bake for 1 hour and 10 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the middle of the cake comes out clean.
• Put the cake on a rack to cool completely. Serve with applesauce or fruit compote and whipped cream, if desired.