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January 25, 2019 52 Weeks of Sweets

Olive Oil & Citrus Mini Bundt Cakes for Tea Time

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Olive Oil & Citrus Mini Bundt Cakes are a tasty bite-sized treat to serve with your favorite cup of tea.  Easy to make and delicately flavored, it’s a perfect pairing.

Olive Oil & Citrus Mini Bundt Cakes are a tasty bite-sized treat to serve with your favorite cup of tea.  Easy to make and delicately flavored, it's a perfect pairing

When it comes to baking, I’m my own worst critic.  Partially because I feel like I could be better at it.  And, partially because I just don’t always love the end product.  Other people do, I just don’t.

Olive Oil & Citrus Mini Bundt Cakes are a tasty bite-sized treat to serve with your favorite cup of tea.  Easy to make and delicately flavored, it's a perfect pairing

Drumroll please… I’m just not a big fan of sweet stuff.  When I share a dessert-style recipe with y’all, it’s gonna be good.  These Olive Oil & Citrus Mini Bundt Cakes are darn good.

Why make Olive Oil & Citrus Mini Bundt Cakes?

When I decided I needed to find something sweet to pair with my afternoon cup o’ tea, I put a lot of thought into it.  Just like food and wine pairings, when enjoying food and drinks together, you want to pick flavors that bring out the best in both.

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Lately, I’ve become quite the tea drinker – especially in afternoons.  My workout is done for the day, I’ve been sitting at my computer for a long stretch, and I need a pick me up.  It’s time for a cup of Constant Comment.  With flavors of black tea, a light citrus note, and sweet spice, it’s one of my favorite teas – perfect for celebrating National Hot Tea Month! And, after playing around with an olive oil cake recipe I’ve had for years, I found that perfect balance of sweet and citrus via mini bundt cakes to pair with it.

Olive Oil & Citrus Mini Bundt Cakes are a tasty bite-sized treat to serve with your favorite cup of tea.  Easy to make and delicately flavored, it's a perfect pairing

A cup of Constant Comment, a Olive Oil & Citrus Mini Bundt Cakes … yup, that’ll get me through even the dreariest afternoon at work.

How to make Olive Oil & Citrus Mini Bundt Cakes

The night before you plan to make these Olive Oil & Citrus Mini Bundt Cakes, set the egg and sour cream on the counter so they can come to room temperature.  When you’re ready to bake, preheat the oven to 350°F.

Olive Oil & Citrus Mini Bundt Cakes are a tasty bite-sized treat to serve with your favorite cup of tea.  Easy to make and delicately flavored, it's a perfect pairing

In a medium-sized bowl, combine zest with sugar and mix until fragrant and the sugar takes on a yellow hue.

Olive Oil & Citrus Mini Bundt Cakes are a tasty bite-sized treat to serve with your favorite cup of tea.  Easy to make and delicately flavored, it's a perfect pairing

Sift in the flour, salt, baking soda and baking powder over the sugar mixture.  If you don’t have a fine mesh sieve, just be sure to break up any clumps of baking soda and powder.  Whisk the ingredients together.

In the bowl of a stand mixer, add the egg, sour cream, vanilla and olive oil.  Beat until smooth.  Add the flour mixture to the batter and beat on medium until just combined.

Olive Oil & Citrus Mini Bundt Cakes are a tasty bite-sized treat to serve with your favorite cup of tea.  Easy to make and delicately flavored, it's a perfect pairing

Coat a mini bundt cake pan with cooking spray and a light dusting of cake flour.  Pour batter into the molds until no more than two-thirds full.  You should have enough batter to make 16-18 mini bundt cakes. Bake for 18 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.

Olive Oil & Citrus Mini Bundt Cakes are a tasty bite-sized treat to serve with your favorite cup of tea.  Easy to make and delicately flavored, it's a perfect pairing

Allow to rest in the pan for at least five minutes before removing them to a cooling rack.  Once completely cooled, dust the Olive Oil & Citrus Mini Bundt Cakes with powdered sugar and sprinkle with extra zest, if desired.

Olive Oil & Citrus Mini Bundt Cakes are a tasty bite-sized treat to serve with your favorite cup of tea.  Easy to make and delicately flavored, it's a perfect pairing

Olive Oil & Citrus Mini Bundt Cakes

Yield: 16-18 mini bundt cakes

Olive Oil & Citrus Mini Bundt Cakes are a tasty bite-sized treat to serve with your favorite cup of tea.  Easy to make and delicately flavored, it's a perfect pairing.

Ingredients

  • 3/4 cup granulated sugar
  • zest of 1 orange and 1 lemon
  • 1 cup all-purpose flour
  • 1/4 tsp. Kosher salt
  • 1/2 tsp. baking powder
  • 1/2 tsp. baking soda
  • 1 large egg
  • 1 cup full-fat sour cream
  • 1/2 tsp. pure vanilla extract
  • 1/4 cup + 2 Tbsp. olive oil
  • Garnish: powdered sugar and additional citrus zest

Instructions

  1. Allow the egg and sour cream to come to room temperature.  I like to set them out on the counter the night before I plan to bake.  Preheat the oven to 350°F.  
  2. In a medium-sized bowl, combine zest with sugar and mix until fragrant and the sugar takes on an orange-ish hue.  Sift in the flour, salt, baking soda and baking powder.  If you don't have a fine mesh sieve, just be sure to break up any clumps of baking soda and powder.  Whisk the ingredients together.
  3. In the bowl of a stand mixer, add the egg, sour cream, vanilla and olive oil.  Beat until smooth.  Add the flour mixture to the batter and beat on medium until just combined.  
  4. Coat a mini bundt cake pan with cooking spray and a light dusting of cake flour.  Pour batter into the molds until no more than two-thirds full.  You should have enough batter to make 16-18 mini bundt cakes. Bake for 18 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
  5. Allow to rest in the pan for at least five minutes before removing them to a cooling rack.  Once completely cooled, dust with powdered sugar and sprinkle with extra zest, if desired.  
© Katie

Bigelow Tea, available at Walmart, is my go-to for classic tea blends no matter my mood.  Be sure to check in with Bigelow on Facebook and Instagram for their brand new ingredient focused videos throughout National Hot Tea Month.  You’ll find videos highlighting their Earl Grey, Green Tea, Green Tea with Lemon, Cozy Chamomile, and Constant Comment teas, and announcing weekly giveaways.  How do you Tea Proudly?

Check out our Homemade Pop Tart and Strawberry White Chocolate Cake recipes for other great sweet treat and tea pairings.

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Olive Oil & Citrus Mini Bundt Cakes are a tasty bite-sized treat to serve with your favorite cup of tea.  Easy to make and delicately flavored, it's a perfect pairing

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Categories: 52 Weeks of Sweets Tags: brunch, desserts, drinks, fruit, vegetarian

About Katie

Katie Harding has been blogging since 2010. What originally started out as a platform to discuss new parenthood, her blogging now focuses on her passion for cooking: creating recipes and sharing tips for entertaining friends and family of all ages. Outside of the kitchen you’ll find her with her family (three boys, one husband, multiple exchange student daughters, and Hank the pup), or gallivanting around the world with her fork in tow.

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  1. Candy Albright says

    January 26, 2019 at 11:29 pm

    Directions refer to yogurt but that is not in the list of ingredients.

    Reply
    • Katie says

      January 27, 2019 at 2:57 pm

      Thanks for the heads up. I’ve fixed it to say sour cream! 🙂

      Reply

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