You will love how easy this cake is! Make a delicious rustic and healthy apple cake with olive oil.

It is a universal rule to use olive oil in salads, but how and why to use it in cakes?

Extra virgin olive oil gives the cakes a threefold benefit:

1. The vibrant aroma and freshness 
2. Beneficial effect on health
3. Serves as a preservative

Ingredients:

• 2 large Gala apples
• 1-2 oranges
• 3 cups (380 g) all-purpose flour
• ½ tsp ground cinnamon
• ½ tsp ground nutmeg
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 1 cup (200 g) of sugar
• 1 cup (250 ml) extra virgin olive oil 
• 2 large eggs
• 2/3 cup (100 g) gold raisins
• icing sugar

Method:

• Preheat oven to 175 °C
• Squeeze oranges in a medium-sized bowl.
• Peel and chop apples finely as possible. Transfer them to a bowl with orange juice to soak in for a while. Just enough juice to toss and coat apples to prevent browning.
• Soak raisins in warm water for 15 min, and then drained them well.
• Sift flour in a large mixing bowl.
• Add nutmeg, cinnamon, baking powder and baking soda.
• In another broad bowl mix together sugar and olive for about 2-3 minutes until it's well combined.
• Add to wet mixture (sugar & olive oil) eggs, one at the time. Mix it for another 2-3 minutes.
• In another large bowl where you had dry ingredients (flour and spices), make a well in the middle and with a spatula add wet mixture (sugar, olive oil, eggs).
• Use a wooden spoon stir until just blended.
• Add drained apples and raisins. 
• The batter should be fairly thick.
• Line a 22 cm cake pan with baking paper. 
• Add batter to the pan. Spoon thick batter into the pan, and level the top with the back of your wooden spoon.
• Bake it for 40-45 min or until an inserted toothpick or wooden skewer comes out clean. (Don't over bake it to keep the cake nice and moist.)
• Cool completely in the pan.
• When ready, simply lift the baking paper and transfer the cake into a serving dish.
• Dust with icing sugar.
• Voilà!