Making Greek olive oil cake

[acamp7]

I just made a Greek olive oil cake - it was delicious! I think next time I will use orange, though, instead of lemon. Those of you who make it, is his basically how you do it? I thought it was delicious but I was wondering if you guys all use yogurt or if there is something else we could do?

3 cups flour
3 teaspoons baking powder
2 teaspoons lemon zest
1 cup olive oil
1 cup plain Greek yogurt
1 1/2 cups sugar
5 egg yolks

 

[k_tsoukalas]

I just made a Greek olive oil cake - it was delicious! I think next time I will use orange, though, instead of lemon. Those of you who make it, is his basically how you do it? I thought it was delicious but I was wondering if you guys all use yogurt or if there is something else we could do?

3 cups flour
3 teaspoons baking powder
2 teaspoons lemon zest
1 cup olive oil
1 cup plain Greek yogurt
1 1/2 cups sugar
5 egg yolks

I have made something similar but I don't use as much sugar - I use about a cup instead. I also use orange zest instead of lemon zest pretty consistently (simple because I always have oranges and I never have lemons unless it's conscious).