Chocolate Olive Oil Cake
Super soft chocolate olive oil cake with a creamy chocolate frosting and chocolate curls to decorate

Can you use olive oil to make chocolate cake?
Yes you can! and the results are amazing!
The fat used in this cake was from olive oil, and the combination with chocolate does wonders to your taste buds!
The type of olive oil you choose to use depends on how strong or mild you want the olive oil flavor to be. Personally, I do like to taste some of the olive oil in there, but it totally depends on your taste!
Go for a mild olive oil if you don’t want that much of a flavor, or for a stronger one if you prefer to taste it in your cake

Ingredients you’ll need to make this Chocolate Olive Oil cake:
All-purpose flour
Cocoa powder
Baking powder
Baking soda
Salt
Olive Oil
Granulated sugar
Eggs, room temperature
Vanilla extract
Sour cream, room temperature
Freshly brewed strong coffee
Unsalted butter, room temperature
Powdered sugar, sifted
Cocoa powder, sifted
60% chocolate
Heavy whipping cream, room temperature

Tips and Tricks
Cake
Using room temperature eggs and sour cream will make sure that your ingredients mix more evenly and your cake stays nice and soft. Leave eggs and sour cream outside of fridge for 30 min prior to using. If pressed on time, allow eggs to sit -completely covered- in warm (no hot) water for 5 minutes
Buttercream
For the buttercream, using room temperature cream, butter and chocolate is a must. If you add anything cold, the melted chocolate could seize, and you could end up with a crumbly mess instead of a creamy and soft chocolate frosting.
Beating the frosting for 3 minutes with all of the ingredients makes it soft and fluffy, so don’t skip this step!
If when you’re finished beating, you see that you need your frosting to be softer, add more heavy cream, bit by bit, until reaching desired consistency
Chocolate Curls
When making the curls, chocolate shouldn’t be completely set, or completely melted, it should be right in the middle!
If the chocolate sets before you’re finished making the curls, just pop the cookie sheet in the oven for 30 seconds until it softens enough to make the curls
You can watch this video for a tutorial on how to make the chocolate curls.

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