recipe | lemon olive oil cake

A couple of weeks ago, my mother-in-law loaded us up with lemons from her tree before she headed off on an overseas sojourn. I’m not really a lemon-buyer in general, I just don’t know what to do with them, but when I become a lemon-receiver, I (a) share the lemon love with friends and (b) pretty much forget about the ones I’m left with.

The other day, I remembered I had lemons. Lemons. Now what do I do with them? I didn’t have that many ingredients on hand – I hardly even had any butter, believe it or not – so I did what any well-meaning guidance-needing person would do. I asked Google. Dear Google, what shall I do with my lemons? Do you – of course you do – have a simple recipe I can whip up with the lack of everything in my pantry (but lemons, oh yes, I have lemons)?

And Google responded. Herewith a simple lemon olive oil cake, my child.

Thank you. A million times thank you, Google. For not only was this recipe actually really incredibly simple (the hardest part is separating 5 eggs, if you’re as egg-separation-challenged as I am) it yielded the moistest, spongiest, slight-tang-of-lemon, aroma-of-olive-oil cake I’ve ever made. Well, I’ve never ever made a lemon olive oil cake but you know, it was good.