Orange-Olive Oil Layer Cake

Name: Orange-Olive Oil Layer Cake
Yield: Makes three 9-inch cake layers
Ingredients: 2 2/3 cups (13⅓ ounces), all-purpose flour; 1 1/2 teaspoons, baking powder; 1 1/4 teaspoons, table salt; 4 , large eggs plus 1 large yolk; 2 cups (14 ounces), sugar; 1 tablespoon, grated orange zest; 1 1/3 cups, extra-virgin olive oil; 1 cup plus 2 tablespoons, milk; 1/4 cup, Grand Marnier or other liqueur

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Appears in Cook's Country December/January 2020

Desserts or Baked Goods

Cakes

SERVESMakes three 9-inch cake layers

TIME1¼ hours, plus 1½ hours cooling

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

UPDATE: This recipe has been slightly reformulated to be more foolproof since its initial publication. The revision you see here was published in December of 2019.
We wanted our olive oil cake to have a light, fine-textured, and plush crumb,...

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