Savoury Cakes

Oh là là.....les cakes salés!!!!
Savoury cakes are a great change from quiches and other nibbles for a drinks party, served with a green salad, make for a great, light supper or on warmer days, go down well in a picnic basket.....Once you've got the hang of the basic recipé, you can chop and change and come up with some great, original savoury cakes....Blue cheese and walnut, cheese and ham, spinach and goat's cheese..........A very clever French cook, 'Sophie', held a competition( on the net) for the best cake recipé, threw in a prize, and brought out a book on the same....I haven't bought it soooo, can't comment!


The following is a marbled green olive and black tapenade cake ( you can cheat and buy the tapenade) which is a colourful addition to any party, and can easily be transported so that you can bring along your very own, homemade gift!

Basic recipé:
3 eggs
150g S.R. flour
80 ml sunflower oil, heated for 1 minute in microwave
130 ml milk
Salt/pepper

100g grated cheese
100g green olives, stoned and chopped
100g black tapenade
1 teasp. Herbs de Provence

Preheat oven to 180°C/Gas mark 6

Mix the eggs with the flour. Add oil gradually. Then add cheese and mix well. Season with salt and pepper.... Divide mixture in two.

Add the green olives and herbs to one mix and the tapenade to the other.

Pour the green olive mix into a cake tin and then the tapenade mix. Bake for 45 mins.

Serve at room temperature.