Most people reserve olive oil for salad dressings or sautéing. But olive oil is perfect for baking cakes, cookies, brownies, and other sweet foods. The fruity, spicy notes in extra virgin olive oil will enhance the flavors in desserts, especially those with chocolate or fruit flavors.
You can modify most baking recipes by swapping butter for olive oil. Solid butter has less volume than melted butter so you will need to convert the measurements using our butter to olive oil conversion chart. If the recipe calls for vegetable oil, simply use the same amount of olive oil in your recipe.
If you'd like to try baking with extra virgin olive oil, here is a recipe for an olive oil cherry cake. This recipe is slightly healthier than other cakes because it uses only 3/4 cup of sugar. The sweetness mainly comes from the cherries that decorate the top of the cake. Cherries and olive oil are both packed with polyphenols which adds another healthy note to this sweet treat.
Speaking of cherries, this vegan cake is so easy to make because we use frozen cherries. They are inexpensive and available year-round! You can whip this up without a trip to the store with items from your pantry and freezer.
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