Olive Oil Cake #CakeSliceBakers
February required an easy cake that I didn't need to collect any special ingredients for. Luckily, the Olive Oil cake was one my choices. It's flavored with a lemon and an orange, both of which I already had in my house, and the other ingredients are all household staples for us. It was an easy cake to make. And baked up beautifully. The cake was extremely moist and had just the right touch of citrus. Unfortunately, we were not big fans of the olive oil taste in the cake. I've not made an olive oil cake before, so I don't know if this is just a preference or if it was a result of the type of olive oil I used or how long it had been in my cupboard. I also wonder how the cake would taste if I made it with a more neutral tasting oil. Each month The Cake Slice Bakers are offered a selection of cakes from the current book we are baking through. This year it is Gâteau: The Surprising Simplicity of French Cakes by Aleksandra Crapanzano. We each choose one cake to b