Lemon and Olive Oil Cake with Spiced Pecans and a Meyer Lemon Glaze
Makes 1 Cake
Ingredients
- Unsalted butter for buttering the pan
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1 cup extra virgin olive oil
- 4 eggs plus 1 egg yolk
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- Juice and zest of 1 Meyer lemon
- 1/2 teaspoon sea salt
- 1 cup spiced pecans chopped (recipe follows)
- Glaze
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1/2 cup fresh Meyer lemon juice
- 3 tablespoons water
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350°F. Butter a large Bundt cake pan and set aside.
- In a medium bowl, combine the flour and salt. Set aside.
- In a standing mixer with the paddle attachment, beat together the sugar and olive oil until combined. Add the eggs one at a time and the egg yolk and mix for 1 minute. Add the lemon juice and zest. Mix for an additional minute. Add the flour mixture to the bowl and mix until combined.
- Transfer the batter to the Bundt cake pan and place in the oven. Bake for 45-50 minutes. Remove from the oven and let cool for 10 minutes.
- While the cake is cooling, make the glaze. In a small saucepan, add the sugar, lemon juice and water and cook over medium-high heat, stirring until the sugar has dissolved. Remove from the heat.
- Remove the cake from the pan and transfer to a cake plate or serving plate. Sprinkle the pecans over the top and spoon the glaze evenly over the cake. Transfer the remaining glaze to a serving bowl and serve the cake with the glaze on the side, if desired.