Lemon Thyme Olive Oil Cake

Name: Lemon Thyme Olive Oil Cake
Cook time: 50 min
Ingredients: 100 ml olive oil; 90 g caster sugar; 70 g runny honey; 3 eggs; 2 egg yolks; 200 g ground almonds; 100 g spelt or gf flour; 0.5 baking powder; 0.5 bicarbonate of soda; 0.5 sea salt; 1 orange zest; 4 lemon zest; 100 g Greek yogurt; 1 vanilla extract; 150 ml lemon juice; 150 ml orange juice; 100 g caster sugar; 2.5 tbsp thyme leaves; 2 tbsp olive oil

Comforting weekend baking with a ridiculously easy recipe

Cook time50 minutes

Ingredients

Directions

1
Preheat the oven to 170 C degrees. Grease + line a 9 inch baking tin with baking powder.
2
In a bowl, add the first 4 ingredients + whisk together. Then stir in the ground almonds, flour, baking powder, bicarb, salt, orange + lemon zest. Mix in the yoghurt + vanilla.
3
Pour into baking tin + bake for 50 mins in the middle of the oven. Remove when a skewer inserted comes out fairly clean.
4
While the cake bakes, add the sugar + lemon/orange juice into a bowl + mix. Set a frying pan to a medium to high heat + add 2 tbsp olive oil followed by the thyme. Fry for 2-3mins until gently crisped up.
5
Stir the thyme through the juice sugar mix. Pour the syrup over the hot cake and leave to soak in.
6
Serve cake warm or at room temperature with crème fraîche or yoghurt.

Notes

GF/DF

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