This is the cake we make when someone says they do not like olive oil. It is rich without butter, golden without effort, and it keeps better than any cake has a right to.

Use the good oil. Yes, that one.

Baking hides cheap oil but it rewards good oil. Grove — our lemon-pressed — turns this from a nice cake into the reason people text you the next day.

Whisk, pour, bake, dust. Serve it plain, or with a spoonful of Velvet if you want to watch someone’s expression change.