Help! Nigellas chocolate olive oil cake

[Chocolatelovingirl]

Can I use extra virgin olive oil or does it have to be normal? Thanks!

Either.

I always do, as that's all we ever have

It's a great cake- tastes far better than the effort required would suggest.

@Haggisfish3 @haba brilliant thanks! What size pan do you make it in - I’m thinking of doing it in a rectangular one

With cakes, usimg the right size pan is important. Otherwise the mixture is too thinly or too thickly spread, and wont't cook in the middle or will burn at the edges at the temperature recommended in the recipe.

Use the size of tin Nigella (or any other recipe-maker) suggests; that's what the quantities in her/their reciple will have been designed for.

Cake tins are not expensive. Supermarket' basics' (if greased/floured/lined with cooking paper) are fine. Ditto Amazon. Ditto your local iron- monger. No need to spend more than around £10 for something that, if cared for, should last you 20 years.

PS I don't like cake, but Nigella's chocolate olive oil is what my husband always asks for as his birthday cake. Lots of people love it.

I use a 23cm (9") circular cake tin, then it needs cooking longer than recipe says. Sometimes I use two X 8" Tim's, if I want a sandwich type cake. Then the cooking time is right.
I usually use 30g GF flour, as well as the ground almond (DD can't eat wheat)