I feel pretty strongly that it’s important to have in your culinary repertoire at least a handful of simple cakes that you could easily pull together at a moment’s notice. Cakes requiring about an hour to create and containing pantry ingredients, maybe some citrus, maybe some nuts, maybe a fruit you have on hand like an apple. I can’t really remember the last time I baked a layer cake or anything that involved (maybe it was this red velvet?) but I make these “snacking cakes” pretty often (as a way to really just challenge my own self-discipline, almost always to my detriment)- bundt cakes, pound cakes, olive oil cakes, etc. This is one is tart, nutty and buttery – and one of my favorite takes.
