Lemon Olive Oil Cake MELTS in Your Mouth (No Flour, No Refined Sugar)

This might just be my favourite lemon recipe! It’s fluffy and soft, yet moist and so lemony, yet well balanced with the sweet glaze.

TBH I keep going to the fridge and taking yet another bite as I edited the recipe video together, lol. You can watch that here:

https://youtube.com/shorts/lloayY32ves?si=ylN-A73aFWjNEBcV

If I’ve convinced you, here’s how you make it:

🍋 Lemon Olive Oil Cake

Ingredients

Wet

• 2 large eggs (room temp)

• 1/4 cup (60 ml) olive oil

• 1/3 cup (80 ml) maple syrup

• 1/4 cup (60 ml) fresh lemon juice

• Zest from 1 lemon

• 1 tsp vanilla

Dry

• 1 1/2 cups (165 g) almond flour

• 1/4 cup (30 g) coconut flour

• 2 tbsp tapioca flour

• 3/4 tsp baking powder

• 1/4 tsp baking soda

• 1/2 tsp sea salt

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 325F

2. Grease & line a 6-inch round pan with parchment paper

3. Whisk together dry ingredients

4. Add wet ingredients & mix until smooth

5. Let the batter sit for 2 minutes to let the coconut flour fully hydrate

6. Transfer to pan & spread with spatula

7. Bake 35-41 minutes - until centre is set, edges are golden & a toothpick comes out mostly clean

8. Cool in pan for 10-15 min, then transfer to rack to fully cool

💛 Powdered Sugar Lemon Glaze (Easier) OR

• 1/2 cup powdered sugar*

• 1–2 tbsp fresh lemon juice

• pinch salt

Whisk together, starting with 1 tbsp of lemon juice and add more if required to thin the icing. Drizzle over cooled cake.

NOTE: *For a corn free icing sugar (store-bought confectioners sugar usually contains cornstarch to prevent clumping), I put granulated cane sugar in a blender until powdered. Adding 1 tbsp of tapioca or arrowroot starch can also be super helpful to blend the sugar finer.

💛 Coconut Butter Lemon Glaze (Maple Syrup Sweetened)

• 1/4 cup (64g) coconut butter

• 1 tbsp coconut oil, melted

• 1 tbsp maple syrup

• 2 tbsp fresh lemon juice

• 2 tbsp milk of choice (I use usually use almond milk)

Combine coconut butter, coconut oil and maple syrup in a microwave safe bowl and warm in the microwave. Stir in the lemon juice & milk. Drizzle over cooled cake.

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