Olive oil cake is always a good idea. Don’t believe us? Just ask our founder, who yesterday chatted about the perfectly moist dessert on an episode of The Martha Stewart Podcast.
The episode is a conversation with entrepreneur Agatha Relota Luczo, and centers around olive oil in all of its forms, from culinary mainstay to skincare supreme. Luczo, an olive oil sommelier, has built a wellness empire out of her family farm in Sicily. Her business ventures include Bona Furtuna, a luxury olive oil label, and Furtuna Skin, a high-end skincare line that uses olive oil as its main ingredient. Martha mentions that she uses the Furtuna Skin face exfoliator herself and loves it.
Naturally, the conversation made its way to recipe swapping, and before long, the duo turned to one of olive oil’s most beloved byproducts: olive oil cake. “The best olive oil cake I ever had was at Valentino’s house—the fashion designer,” Martha recounts. …