Spiced Olive Oil Cake
on Nov 28, 2022, Updated May 20, 2025
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What Makes This Recipe Great
This Spiced Olive Oil Cake is such a winner when it comes to flavor and consistency, I can’t even believe myself that it’s gluten free! Oat flour helps make that happen and they addition of olive oil for the fat source is perfection. It might be cookie week but I had to get this recipe into your hands as the holiday season begins. It features all of the best spices – ginger, cinnamon, clove and allspice. Speaking of spices I recommend you check your expiration dates on yours!! If you only you them a few times during the holidays each year there is a chance they are expired. This isn’t a huge deal for health reasons but they do lose flavor over time! I try to go through my spices once a year to check and it helps to clear out duplicates and combine as needed. Once you know your spices are good, make this cake!
Ingredient List
- Applesauce
- Egg
- Olive Oil
- Coconut Sugar
- Vanilla Extract
- Oat Flour
- Cinnamon
- Nutmug
- Ginger
- Allspice
- Cloves
- Baking Powder
- Baking Soda
- Salt
- Power Sugar
- Milk
Step By Step
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Spiced Olive Oil Cake
Ingredients
- 1 cup applesauce
- 3 eggs
- 3 tbsp olive oil
- ½ cup coconut sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 2 cups oat flour
- 2 ½ tsp ground cinnamon*
- 1 tsp ground nutmeg
- 1 tsp ground ginger
- ½ tsp allspice
- ¼ tsp ground cloves
- 1 tsp. baking powder
- 1 tsp. baking soda
- ½ tsp. Salt
Icing:
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- ½ tsp cinnamon
- 2 to 3 tbsp milk
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Combine all ingredients in a bowl and stir to combine. Pour into a parchment lined loaf pan and bake for 35 minutes.
- Let it cool then combine icing ingredients until the consistency is thick but pourable.
- Pour icing over cake and enjoy!
I can not wait to make this!! Thoughts on making it ahead of time and freezing? I’d add the drizzle after its unthawed?
Yes that would work amazing!!! Enjoy