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Delicious Orange Olive Oil Cake Recipe

Our orange olive oil cake recipe makes a simple yet flavorful snacking cake that everyone will love. In my house, I always have to bake a double batch.

A few years ago, two friends from my culinary school days came to visit me for the weekend. In preparation for my house guests, I deep cleaned, bought fresh flowers and baked an orange olive oil cake.

My friends were still a few hours away. I decided that no one would mind if I tried a slice of the cake. Quality control, right? Well, that was a huge mistake, because I fell in love.

The cake was tender and soft. The presence of orange was playful and bright with the fruity olive oil. There was just enough sugar to impart a hint of sweetness. It avoided a full-blown sugar rush—the marker of a true snacking cake. One slice turned into two, three, four. Before I knew it, half the cake was gone. And then my friends showed up.

I told them what happened. They laughed, then grabbed two forks and tried the cake for themselves. Laughter turned into shock, and I was jokingly berated all weekend for barely saving them “the best cake in existence.”

Every reunion weekend after that, my friends have requested the cake—with no slices taken out beforehand. And, yes, I learned my lesson: Always bake a double batch of this orange olive oil cake recipe. One for them, one for me.

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23 Winter Breakfast Ideas

Whether you’re enjoying a Sunday morning brunch or bunkered down for a snow day, these winter breakfast recipes will not disappoint!

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Note to self!

If you are rereading a book, make sure you change the status on Goodreads to “Currently Reading!”

Sandy, the Reluctant Retiree

If you read my post about the Reading journal from Net Gallery, you may have noticed that I said that I was going to try to keep track of all the books I read. Like many others, I tend to use Goodreads to keep up with them. The problem comes in when you decide to reread a book you read before. The reason for the reread doesn’t really matter, it could be anything.

You see, Goodreads take note of when you start a book and when you finish it. Very nice feature actually. When you reread a book however, it does not automatically take note of this because it is already on your list. You have to tell it that you are reading it again.

This is the monthly “wrap up page” from the journal. While I’m searching for new books to read, I’ve been rereading some older ones that I haven’t read in a few years.

It wasn’t until I started to count up the number of books that I realized that it wasn’t including the rereads. Thankfully I had just started rereading these books so I didn’t have many to mark. But given that it is so easy to mark them from within the Kindle app, it makes more sense to do that!.