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Orange Olive Oil Bundt Cake with Currants

Here is my version of a bundt cake which I love to make for a breakfast treat. Serve it with a herbal tea, or have to for dessert with a homemade ice cream.
Course Dessert
Cuisine American-Greek
Keyword bundt, cake, currants, olive oil
1 hour
1 hour
Servings 8
Author Mary Papoulias-Platis

Ingredients

  • 3/4 cup extra virgin olive oil
  • 2 cups sugar
  • 4 eggs
  • 1 cup milk
  • 2 teaspoons vanilla
  • zest from one orange
  • 4 cups self-rising flour
  • 2 cups currants
  • powdered sugar

Instructions

  1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
  2. Grease a Bundt pan with olive oil and flour.
  3. In a mixer beat together olive oil and sugar until smooth.
  4. Add one egg at a time, beating until blended.

  5. Add the milk, vanilla and orange zest

  6. Slowly add the flour.
  7. Coat the currants with flour and with a large spoon gently hand blend.
  8. Pour into mold and bake for one hour.
  9. Allow to cool for 30 minutes.
  10. Invert on to a large platter and sprinkle with powdered sugar.