Olive Oil Cake with Fresh Peaches

Name: Olive Oil Cake with Fresh Peaches
Yield: Serves 6
Ingredients: 3 eggs; 275 g (9¾ oz) caster sugar; 2 tbsp finely grated orange zest; 80 ml (3 fl oz) full-fat milk; 120 ml (4 fl oz) olive oil; 150 g (5½ oz) self-raising flour, sifted; 150 g (5½ oz) plain flour, sifted; 85 g (3 oz) apricot jam, warmed and strained; 2 peaches, sliced

Preparation info

Serves
6

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

World's Best Cakes

By Roger Pizey

Published 2013

About

Olive oil has been used in cooking and baking for centuries in the countries bordering the Mediterranean Sea. Using oil rather than butter gives this cake a lovely light texture with a subtle flavour, as well as cutting back on its cholesterol content. It’s positively healthy.

Ingredients

3 eggs
2 tbsp finely grated orange zest
275 g (9

Vegetarian
Cake
Mediterranean

Method

Preheat the oven to 180°C/350°F/gas mark 4, and grease a deep 18cm (7in) round springform cake tin well.
Beat together the eggs, orange zest and sugar really well.
Add in the oil and the milk, alternating these wet ingredients with the sifted