Lemon Olive Oil Cake
servings
Lemon Olive Oil Cake is moist, tender, and bursting with fresh lemon flavor! Elegant and simple to make with a bright yellow crumb and golden brown crust, it's the perfect cake to serve for coffee or tea.
Ingredients
- 3 cups cake flour Use my recipe for Homemade Cake Flour
- 2 ¼ cups sugar
- 2 ½ teaspoons baking powder
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- ¼ teaspoon kosher salt
- zest from 3 lemons
- ⅓ cup fresh lemon juice
- ½ cup milk I use whole milk
- 1 cup olive oil
- 3 large eggs
- 1 ½ teaspoons pure vanilla extract
- powder sugar for dusting
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°, and prepare a Bundt pan by greasing it with butter and dusting with flour.
- In a medium bowl, whisk together the 3 cups cake flour, 2 1/4 cups sugar, 2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder, 1/2 teaspoon baking soda, 1/4 teaspoon salt, and zest from 3 lemons.
- In a large bowl, combine the 1/3 cup lemon juice, 1/2 cup milk, 1 cup olive oil, 3 eggs, and 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla. Mix well.
- Add the flour mixture to the wet ingredients and stir until combined, being careful not to overmix.
- Pour the batter into the prepared Bundt pan. Bake for 50-55 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean. Oven temperatures may vary, so baking time may change depending on your oven.
- Cool the cake in the pan for 10 minutes on a wire rack before turning out onto a serving plate. Cake can be dusted with powdered sugar and served slightly warm or at room temperature.
Notes
- If you don't have cake flour on hand, use my recipe for making it at home. Triple the recipe, so you'll be making it for 3 cups of cake flour as called for here.
- If possible, I highly recommend using fresh lemon juice as opposed to the bottled. It really will make a difference in the flavor.
- You can also use a stand mixer to combine the batter, just make sure not to overmix.
- I use this 12-cup Bundt pan, and the batter doesn't fill it, so a 10-cup pan should be ok.
Nutrition
Calories: 426kcal | Carbohydrates: 61g | Protein: 4g | Fat: 19g | Saturated Fat: 3g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 2g | Monounsaturated Fat: 13g | Cholesterol: 1mg | Sodium: 100mg | Potassium: 139mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 38g | Vitamin A: 18IU | Vitamin C: 3mg | Calcium: 54mg | Iron: 0.5mg