Make this easy blood-orange olive oil cake today! It’s beautiful and so easy to make! Last week for Sunday Favorites I made these vegan blood orange cookies and we loved them so much that I immediately started looking for more blood-orange recipes.
It’s perfect to use winter citrus that’s in season right now and the natural bright pink color makes it perfect for Valentine’s Day!
What ingredients will I need?
- Obviuosly you’ll need olive oil and a few blood-oranges
- sugar
- plain Greek yogurt
- eggs
- flour
- baking powder, baking soda and salt
- For the glaze: powedered sugar, blood orange juice and rose water (optional) and maybe even a few dried rose petals if you’re feeling extra fancy. (Again, totally optional)!
What size pan will I need?
This recipe actually called for a loaf pan. I grew up with a lot of loaf cakes and I remember asking my mom why she couldn’t make it a round cake. I don’t recall if she ever answered me, but, to this day, I almost always make round cakes. It doesn’t even have to be a layer cake, but I’ll use an 9″ round pan.
As a child, I often drew things like cakes. And never once did I draw or paint a loaf pan cake. It was always a round cake on a cakestand. Usually, the cake would have a scalloped design top and bottom, and candles. A round cake just makes it seem fancy but in a simple way. Do you agree?
Most olive oil cakes call for some kind of liqueur
Since we don’t have any on hand, I made a recipe for a more traditonal olive oil cake, and just substituted lemon for blood orange. If you do happen to have some liqueur on a shelf, then I would be tempted to make this one. I skipped decorating it with thin orange slices and went with a pink blood orange glaze dusted with a few rose petals.
PrintEasy Blood Orange Olive Oil Cake
This is an easy cake that requires no special equipment, not even a mixer. It comes together very quickly and is out of the oven in 30 minutes! You decorate with a little sifted powdered sugar or make a glaze with a little blood orange juice.
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: 30 minutes
- Total Time: 45 minutes
- Yield: 8 1x
Ingredients
- 1 3/4 cup all-purpose flour
- 2/3 cup sugar (white or palm sugar)
- 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 2/3 cup olive oil
- 1/2 cup plain Greek yogurt
- 2 eggs
- juice and zest from one blood orange
- a few drops of rose water (optional)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350º and line a 9″ round cake pan with parchment paper. Spray pan woth cooking spray.
- Add the zest to the sugar and mix together. Then add the sugar to the rest of the dry ingredients: flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt. Whisk together and create a well in the center.
- In a separate bowl, combine the eggs, olive oil, juice, Greek yogurt, rose water drops if used and whisk together. Add it to the dry ingredients and whisk or stir to combine until all dry ingredients are blended.
- Pour into the prepared cake pan and bake for 30 minutes.
- Dust with powdered sugar or make a pink glaze with a little blood orange juice, powdered sugar, and rose water. Drizzle over the cake when it has cooled and sprinkle a few dried culinary roses or more zest.
One of the things I love about this cake is that you don’t need a mixer
- Two or three bowls (maybe one for the glaze)
- a whisk or a spoon
- a cake pan
2. I’ve been seeing this vase a lot lately!
I love a mix of materials like stone, marble, and ceramic. But with all those “hard” surfaces, I like to mix in things like rattan and wicker. Both in furniture like side tables, table lamps, and vases.
So when I saw Janet use this vase for our recent Valentine’s post, I ordered two before they go out of stock. I think it will look great on my white Saarinen table or on my stainless kitchen island. It’s all about the mix!
3. The Health Benefits of Sauna
Last week I noticed that Kelly LeVeque mentioned something on Instagram about taking a sauna for health benefits. I sort of knew that there were several health benefits, but when I started doing a little research, I immediately started adding it to my workout routine every day.
Our gym has saunas in the locker rooms and for an entire week, I’ve had it to myself. After reading about all the benefits from better skin, sleep, even a reduced risk of Alzheimer’s and dementia, I’m shocked that no one seems to use it, or at least not at the time I am. Alone in a sauna for 20 minutes, a day has been something I so look forward to at the end of my workout.
I read several articles that all talked about the many benefits.
4. Kenyon Electric Grills
I had the opportunity to work with Kenyon Grills and if you have a need for an electric grill, this is the one you want! We used it indoors at our house last week, and now Patrick has it on his urban patio. He lives in Manhattan and is lucky to have a small back patio. Propane or charcoal would be difficult to manage in the city, so an electric grill is a great solution.
The grill we have is the Floridian All Seasons Portable Stainless Steel Grill. You can see the reel where we used it here!
5. Old-Fashioned Valentine’s
I’ll probably use my watercolor hearts, but these from Anthropologie are so cute and $20. Makes me want to stop by the post office and pick up some Love stamps. Mary Ann used them in this post!
I grew up in Denver, Colorado where every year we would drop our Valentine’s at local drop-off boxes so that they could be sent to Loveland, Colorado, and get the “Loveland” postmark. It’s sponsored by the Loveland Chamber of Commerce and it’s called the Loveland Re-Mailing Program. Do you still send Valentine’s?
Okay, you know the drill! Let’s go see what Mary Ann and Cindy found this week!
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Holy cow….THAT CAKE! I could go for a piece right now!
I think you must have to put a glass inside the wicker vase if you want to put something fresh in it…which I don’t mind!
Great post!
LOOKS DELIOUS AND I WILL MAKE IT!
Annie what a lot of fun things. I just adore your cake. I love olive oil cakes and with the blood orange, so yummy as well as lovely! That grill is pretty cool. I am wondering if Jackson would use one in his apartment patio too. Good for you doing the sauna. I think they are so good for you and jacuzzis are also.. I agree that wicker vase is so cool! xo
Patrick is using it this weekend at this apartment! I think Jackson would love it! It’s really nice…nicer than ours in the backyard!
That cake is absolute perfection. The rose petals take it from wonderful to AMAZING!!! I think I need to spend some time in the steam room, sounds like I could use the benefits! That vase is really great for the price, isn’t it?
I can see this vase in your house!
Beautiful! I love that you don’t need a mixer AND no waiting for butter to soften – this is a keeper!