But can you use olive oil instead of vegetable oil for baking?

The answer may surprise you.

But what if you run out of vegetable oil and arecraving brownies?

measuring cup with olive oil with bowl of flower in background

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Here are some things to note before you kick off baking with olive oil.

Because of olive oil’s distinct flavor, it might affect the flavor of the baked product.

Knowing this works as an equal substitute will help if you’re running low on one of the oils.

Lemon Olive Oil Cake

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Can you use olive oil instead of vegetable oil and still get the same flavor?

Our Test Kitchen has some delicious cake recipes that have olive oil in the mix.

Try ourlemon olive oil cakeorgrapefruit olive oil cake.

Or if you’ve got somezucchini left from your summer harvest, give this fancylayered olive oil cakea go.

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