blood orange olive oil cake 🍊🍰

the spring cake of my DREAMS

this blood orange olive oil cake is the perfect recipe for your next dinner party and is easy to follow! (also the cute aesthetics, i mean come on!!

recipe below:

cake:

1 1/2 cups flour

1 tsp salt

1 tsp baking soda

1 1/2 cups granulated sugar

3 eggs

1 tsp vanilla extract

15 oz whole milk ricotta cheese

3/4 cup olive oil

1 tbsp blood orange zest

1/2 cup fresh blood orange juice

1 tbsp whole milk

frosting:

8 oz room temp cream cheese

1 vanilla bean, scraped out

2 cups powdered sugar

2 tbsps milk

1/2 cup butter (i browned the butter for extra flavor!)

garnish:

dehydrated oranges (bake at 200, flip every 30 mins, 3-4 hours)

instructions:

in a bowl, combine the flour, salt, and baking soda. set aside

in your standing mixer, mix the eggs and the sugar for about 3-4 minutes

add your ricotta, vanilla, olive oil, whole milk, orange juice, and orange zest till well combined

slowly add you flour mixture till all combined

bake at 350 for 50 minutes

whip your frosting ingredients in your standing mixture and then frost and decorate!!

hope you enjoy it as much as i did🍊💛

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