We know you love using olive oil in all of your favourite dishes, especially as a dressing for salads but did you know it’s distinct flavour shouldn’t be restricted to savoury, only?
It adds a distinct and delicious flavour to all your desserts including moist and flffy cakes, muffins and slices and leaves ice-cream with a fresh, caramel-like flavour with a hint of savouriness and creamy texture.
From fruity cakes to slices, muffins and creamy ice-cream, we showcase all of our sensational olive oil desserts.
Looking for more desserts recipes?
Upside-down grape and honey cake
Flip cake on it’s head.
Our healthy banana olive oil loaf
The treat that loves your guts.
Gluten-free carrot cake with cream cheese frosting
A classic pairing.
Olive oil cake with blueberries
This delicious cake is best served warm, with crème fraîche.
Slow-roasted rosé vanilla quince galette
A delightful winter dessert.
Carrot layer cake with peach and ginger
One impressive cake!
Blood orange cakes with mascarpone ice-cream
Seriously citrusy!
Olive oil, sage and pineapple skillet cake
Try something a little bit different.
Mandarin almond cakes with candied mandarin
Fluffy and delicious mandarin almond cakes topped with candied mandarin.
Pear and ginger upside-down cake
Turn dessert on its head.
Honey slice with roasted strawberries
A slice of heaven.
Halva, honey & carrot cake
A truly flavour-packed carrot cake.
Quince galette
Take slow-roasted quince, add flaky pastry and you have the ideal winter dessert.
Raspberry ripple sweetcorn ice-cream
This healthy non-dairy ice-cream is made with corn, which provides a natural creaminess and sweetness. Expect the ice-cream to be slightly more icy as a result!
Maple gingerbread muffins with kumara butter
Full of delicious wholesome ingredients, these sweet and tasty maple gingerbread muffins are free of dairy and refined sugar. Served with a divine kumara butter, they make a healthy alternative for your morning or afternoon tea!
Olive oil and marmalade cake
Indulge in this wholesome olive oil and marmalade cake- a true family favourite full of delicious flavour and texture.
Moist carrot cake
Carrot cake is always a winner, and the addition of a little mixed spice to this recipe takes it to a new level. This gluten free version is super moist and perfect for the kids’ lunch boxes or after school snack.
Lemon and earl grey chiffon syrup cake
Variation; for an orange blossom and mint tea syrup cake, omit the french earl grey tea in the cake and instead add 1 tablespoon orange blossom water with the lemon juice in step 3. Omit the earl grey syrup and instead make ‘orange blossom and mint tea syrup’. Serve the cake drizzled with syrup. Note