Chocolate Cake With Olive Oil
Looking for a healthier and lighter chocolate cake that's fluffy and delicious? Our chocolate cake with olive oil will delight you!
Equipment
- 2 large bowls
- 1 electric handheld mixer
- 1 spatula
- 1 kitchen scale
- 1 baking dish
- baking paper
- 1 poking stick
Ingredients
- 200 gr flour 00
- 100 ml Belmorso Extra Virgin Olive Oil
- 3 eggs
- 150 gr sugar I am using coconut sugar.
- 1 sachet Vanilla baking mix like Lievito Vanigliato Paneangeli or 2 teaspoons baking powder + 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 pinch salt
- 150 gr milk chocolate I am using 1 bar for melting it into the cake and half a bar for adding pieces into the batter.
- 1 tbsp powdered sugar (optional) for finishing off the cake
Instructions
- Melt your 100 gr bar using the double boiler method. Set aside.
- Start by cracking the eggs into a large bowl.
- Add the sugar and mix.
- Then add half the EVOO and keep mixing.
- Now, add your melted chocolate and mix.
- Weigh the flour, put into a bowl; add the baking powder and soda, and the pinch of salt; and mix everything well.
- Turn your oven on so it starts heating up.
- Add 1/3 of the dry mixture into the liquid mixture and beat with the electric mixer. Repeat until you have used all the dry mixture.
- Layer some baking paper on your baking dish, ideally a pound cake dish, and drizzle some EVOO.
- Pour the chocolate cake with olive oil batter into the dish, and add squares of chocolate from the other half bar.
- Bake in your pre-heated oven for 60 minutes at 160 degrees Celsius, or until a stick comes clean. For my cakes, I like to use my 4D hot air setting, which is meant to distribute heat evenly. I also prefer cooking the cake at a lower temperature and for longer, as I believe it makes the cake moist and fluffy.
Notes
You can add these optional ingredients: orange peel, nutmeg and cinnamon, pine nuts or your favourite nuts. You can switch the chocolate for white or any other flavoured chocolate, or you can do two types of chocolate - one for melting and one for the filling.