Olive oil picnic cake

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Preparation info
  • Serves

    6

    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in
A Cook’s Year in a Welsh Farmhouse

By Elisabeth Luard

Published 2011

  • About

Spanish olive oil replaces Welsh butter in this recipe for a cut-and-come-again cake flavoured with lemon – a reminder, to me at least, of sunny days spent with my children by a sparkling stream in a valley in Andalusia, much as I do now with the next generation, my grandchildren.

Ingredients

  • 175 g plain flour
  • 2 tsp baking powder
  • 175 g

Method

Preheat the oven to 180°C/350°F/Gas mark 33. Line a 1 kg loaf tin with greaseproof paper and brush with oil.

Sift the flour with the baking powder into a bowl and mix in the sugar