Last week we celebrated my husband’s 33rd birthday!
We are finally the same age now. Kinda sucks when you’re the older one, even if it is only 3 months! But, I always liked them younger – 3 months, or 3 years, does not make a difference to me. 
Back to hubz.
When I asked him about his birthday cake, without hesitation, he answered; Chocolate! As if I didn’t know, but still, you have to ask. What else would a chocoholic want?
It didn’t take me long to figure out which chocolate cake I was going to make for him.
Few weeks ago, as I was reading through my friend’s blogs, I came across Chef Dennis’ recipe and photos of this gorgeous Chocolate Olive Oil Cake. As soon as I saw it, I bookmarked it with my husband’s birthday on my mind. I knew he was going to love it, and love it he (we) did! This cake was delicious!
I took note of the Chef’s suggestion – whipped cream filling – and got to work.
Chocolate Olive Oil Cake
- For the Cake
- 3 Cups All Purpose Flour
- 2 cups sugar
- 6 tablespoons cocoa
- 2 teaspoons baking soda
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 3/4 cup Extra Virgin Olive Oil
- 2 tablespoons white vinegar
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- 2 cups cold water
- For the Whipped Cream
- 2 cups whipping cream
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 2 tablespoons sugar
- Preheat the oven to 350.
- In a large mixing bowl sift together the flour, sugar, cocoa, baking soda and salt.
- Set the bowl to the mixer and with your mixer on low speed, pour in the oil, vinegar, vanilla, and water; beat until smooth.
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- Pour the mixture into two 9″ pans coated with butter and dusted with flour.
- flour dusted
- Bake for 30 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center of the cake comes out clean.
- Put the cake pans on cooling racks and cool for 15 to 20 minutes before removing the cakes from the pans to cool completely.
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- In the meantime, prepare the whipped cream filling and the mocha glaze.
- Combine the whipping cream, vanilla, and sugar.
- Cover and chill in the refrigerator for 30 minutes.
- When chilled, beat the mixture until stiff peaks form.
- Spread the whipped cream over one of the cakes, then set the other cake on top.
- Stir together the instant espresso and boiling water until smooth. Set aside.
- Combine the cream and the corn syrup in a heavy saucepan and bring to a boil over medium heat.
- Remove the pan from the heat and stir in the espresso.
- Pour the mixture over the chocolate and let sit, covered, for 2 to 3 minutes.
- Stir until the chocolate is completely melted and the sauce is very smooth.
- Keep warm until ready to use, then pour it over the cake.
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Made this last night—it was super easy and delicious. Definitely a keeper! I skipped the glaze and put sliced strawberries between the layers, then dusted icing sugar on top. It was great.
Isn’t it such a great cake? And it sounds soooo good with those sliced strawberries….yummmm! I’m so glad you enjoyed it!!
Happy birthday to your hubby! Mine would be amazed if I made him a cake this beautiful!
I love olive oil based cakes and this one looks like it would have gone down a treat! Well done!
I bookmarked Chef Dennis’ recipe too and yours looks just as good! With chocolate and whipped cream, you can’t go wrong :).
Looks divine. Thanks for sharing. Must file this away for my daughter – her name is Olive!
What a lucky guy, and a delicious looking cake!! I definitely want to try this one!
I am so happy this made Top 9! That pic is so life like I could just dig my fork in. The cake looks supermoist and the cream so thick. I love this! You placed that big strawberry perfectly too. Your husband is a lucky man 🙂
What a beautiful cake for a birthday. That filling looks so creamy and wonderful. Hope he had a great day!!
Happy Birthday to your husband…the cake looks beautiful, and no eggs…I heard of olive oil cake but have not the chance to make it…now seeing yours make me wanted to bake one. Hope you are having a great week Kate 🙂
Stoppin by again to rejoice with you today! Congrats on Top 9!! Woot woot!
I have been intrigued with the use of olive oil in cake for a long time. This looks positively delectable! I think I am in love! The whipped cream filling is perfect. My Dad’s b-day is next week – this is going on the list of possibilities.
Woo-hoo you’re in the Top 9!!!!
What a gorgeous cake!! Not being a big olive oil fan I’ve shied away from Olive Oil Cakes, however, I’ve seen a couple in the last few weeks and I’m sorely tempted to give one a try. Chocolate would be my choice as well.
Happy Birthday to the young guy!!! Hope it was a wonderful day!
Congrats on that Top 9 to you as well!!
I’ve yet to make an olive oil cake, and this one looks like a real winner. Lucky man, your husband… Happy Birthday, Dude!
Happy Belated Birthday to your husband…lucky guy, what a delicious cake 🙂
A belated happy birthday to your husband, and congrats to you on Top 9, and on whipping up a delicious cake. I love using olive oil for fat in baking – it gives such a cool flavor and texture. Lovely!
Congrats on the Top 9, Kate, you so deserve it!
Thank you!! xoxo
Congrats on Top 9!! this cake looks delicious. I will have to try this one:)
Gorgeous! Wow! Happy birthday to your husband… 🙂
Haha, well, I am 7 years older than my husband, so don’t you worry about it! I am the original cougar ; ) Happy birthday to hubs, I hope he enjoyed the beautiful cake you made for him!
Wow, that is one gorgeous cake! You did right by Dennis’s recipe!
eh no butter!? i gotta try this. thanks for the recipe. and happy birthday to you hubby 🙂
Congratz on top 9 and your hubby is real lucky to be having this divine looking cake , it has baked really beautifully
Congrats on Top 9! Your delicious cake made your hubby happy, and now made you happy as well. 🙂 Happy belated Birthday to your husband!
Looks divine! But isn’t corn syrup a rather unhealthy ingrediant to use?
What can on replace this with?
The chocolate cake looks gorgeous!
Happy Birthday to your husband!
Congrats on top 9!!!
Kate, We both had Birthdays this week and we both chose Chocolate!! Great minds think alike. Your looks absolutely divine! I ave to try it!
Happy Birthday to your (younger) hubby!;)I agree w/the younger and have one too:)
This cake looks FABULOUS, Kate! I need to try it out. I love baking w/olive oil:)
That cakes looks delish! Happy birthday to your husband. And I know how you feel: I’m two years and two days older than my husband, and those two days in which he’s actually three years younger than me really stink, ha!
Happy Birthday to the husband! With this cake you didn’t have to get him anything else! Gorgeous!
What a lucky hubby you have, Kate. Look at that chocolate cake! Looks so decandent but light, too. Just like you: we’ve got toy boys 😉 Just keep giving them the chocolate…
Happy Birthday to your husband! I love the strawberry on top 🙂
That cake looks great. I’d love to try making an olive oil cake. Mmm!
Your hubby is one lucky man! This cake looks so good, I bet he enjoyed it immensely!
Happy birthday to you Hubby 😀
I love the chocolate olive oil cake!!! Yours looks so good and I wish a piece was in front of me now 🙂
I need to try that recipe soon, maybe for my birthday in 2 weeks 😉
Happy Birthday to your husband! 🙂 Your cake is absolutely gorgeous. It looks sooo good.
Mmm, chocolate cake … this looks beyond yummy. Actually I just made a chocolate cake this morning. My husband is coming back from a trip and I wanted to suprise him. But I went the flourless route. Have not tried it yet, wish I had this recipe though ! Your creations are always tried and tested !
The cake looks absolutely Perfect Kate! Yummy good looking :p Wish all the best for your huby
gorgeous! happy birthday to your husband. what a wonderful cake!
I’ve been wanting to experiment with an olive oil cake, and what better to pair it with than chocolate! Looks great…will have to give it a try. And as for the younger husband thing? Mine is also three months younger, but my birthday is in December so we were born in different years 😉
This cake looks and sounds amazing! My hubby is a huge chocolate fan too… he would love this!!
Happy Birthday to your hubby! Great minds think alike on the chocolate olive oil cake! I made one last weekend as well ;)! Yours looks delish!
What a darling wife to make such a loving birthday cake.. its a work of art!
What a divine looking cake!! The whipped cream filling looks absolutely fabulous and I bet it tasted just as good! Well done, happy birthday to hubby.
This cake looks fantastic! I’m 8 days older than my hubby. I’ve also liked younger men too 🙂
The cake looks great – I’ve been wanting to try an olive oil cake recipe lately, and love how this one has chocolate. I also have a younger significant other, and look forward to the few days in the year that he’s only 3 years younger than me instead of 4!
Oh, yeah…my hubby would always pick chocolate, too…and my boys! 33??? You two make me feel ancient 😉
Happy B- day to your hubby..mine would say the same thing Chocolate please!!! :)) Looks amazing, delicious and beautiful!!!! I can only drool now:)
Such a gorgeous cake, it sounds absolutely delicious! Happy birthday to your husband!
You did a wonderful job with this Kate. I found this cake also through Chef Dennis and really want to make it. I hope the Mr. had an awesome birthday. He sure had an awesome cake. I could sleep in that filling!!!
Beautiful cake. This one has been on my list to try out as well. 🙂
I’ve never tried an olive oil cake yet, but this one looks so moist and delicious, I know I’ll have to try it!
Happy birthday to hubby! I have seen a lot of recipes for chocolate olive oil cake and this looks really fantastic!
This really looks fantastic! From the photo’s, it actually looks like you used a 3 inch deep pan, and then cut the cake in half horizontally. Am I hallucinating?
No, you are not hallucinating! 🙂 But it is much easier to use two 9-inch pans instead of doing what I did, and that is why I left it that way in the directions… cutting it in half is just a pain. 🙂
Hi Kate
Happy Birthday to your hubby, I hope he enjoyed that beautiful cake, and thank you so much for using my recipe and for the mention! It is surprising how good that cake turns out without any eggs in it!
I think the whipped cream was definitely a better choice to showcase this wonderful cake!
Cheers
Dennis
Another great creation. I’ll have to book mark it as well and give it a try for a neighborhood BBQ in a couple weeks.
Happy B-Day to your hub, indeed! Check out that cake of yum! I saw this over on Chef Dennis’ site too and drooled all over my keyboard. Rest assured, your cake did the EXACT same thing to me again. So lovely! Well done 🙂
Kate this looks amazing! I’m sure your hubby was super excited for such a great cake on his bday. =)
Happy B-day to your husband. You two are still so young. I have this cake on my must make list too. Hope you have a great week.
-Gina-
A very happy birthday to your husband! How nice it must be to have a husband who likes chocolate cake for his birthday, my life would be so much easier… Adam loves chocolate cake but absolutely refuses to have it for his birthday so every year he challenges me to come up with a new cake recipe! The things we do for those we love! Well, it won’t be on his birthday, but I know he’s going to love this cake when I make it for him.
Olive oil desserts are so popular, did the olive oil come through and become a flavor you tasted? I do a similar one except flourless and salty
There’s a bit of an olive oil taste to it, but it’s a good taste…like a sweet, chocolatey, evoo taste. 🙂
Happy Birthday to your hubby. This such a gorgeous b-day cake. I love the glaze, too. My husband’s birthday isn’t until Sept., but our Anniversary is at the end of the month. I’m bookmarking this now!
This looks delicious!! Too bad the birthdays have passed for the year in our family. I will have to find another excuse to make it – and definitely with the cream filling!
Happy bday to hubby!! You did great with Dennis’ recipe! Yum! Look at that middle!!
Aww, happy birthday to your husband, Kate. I hope he had a great day! The cake looks marvelous! Now, I wish they had springform pans in the shape of sheet cakes. I can’t ever turn mine out so some is always stuck to it. I do butter and flour it like I’m told. Is there a timing thing? Like, should I let it cool for 15 minutes or something before trying to get it out? I would think that makes it even more stuck to the pan. My mother makes jelly rolls and I don’t know if it’s because it’s a sponge she’s making or her method of pan preparation but, they always come out! She margarines the baking sheet and then places wax paper on top of it. Then, she margarines the wax paper! Comes out every time. Oy… me and cakes have a bad track record–round, rectangular, what have you… never just right 🙁
Hi Hester! I have one thing to say, Thank God for springform pans!! 🙂
I’ve been in a few of those sticky situations and with time I learned that you have to let the cake cool completely before removing it from the pan. And you have to bang on the pan for the cake to come out! 🙂
Happy birthday to your husband! That cake is absolutely perfect. I love the thought of the whipped cream icing as well. It looks like I’ll have to do likewise.
My husband is 7 years younger than me and oh yeah, it’s a good thing.
Happy Birthday to your lucky husband!!! The cake looks absolutely delicious 🙂 the perfect birthday one!!!
happy birthday to your husband!
i made chef dennis’s cake for my cousin’s birthday too and it was fantastic! my cousin loved it … this recipe is definitely a keeper 😀
happy birthday to your hubby 🙂 and the cake looks perfect and it’s without egg !!
PS: my hubby is younger than me too and yes, I like that 😉
Happy birthday to your husband. I bet this cake was quite a treat for him. It looks delicious!