Biscuits and cakes with olive oil as the fat source

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Hello!

Does anyone have any good recipes for vegan cakes/biscuits which don't use margarine/butter substitute (or anything else "processed")? Trying bake for DH, who's gone vegan, and I really don't want to use processed stuff (and I'm a bit of a shite baker....).

Thank you in advance :)

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Olive oil unhealthy? Nah …

I bake cakes using EVOO as a default, in place of butter. My ginger cakes, banana cakes, and Christmas cakes are famous (amongst my family) for their distinctive lusciousness.

But I’m not vegan so do use eggs. And wholemeal / spelt flour. And generally much less sugar than a recipe suggests.

These days I just estimate the conversion from the weight of butter - usually around 70% or so, otherwise your cake runs with oil.

Generally only buy butter if I’m making oatcakes or some rarified type of cake that I haven’t tried before.