Bacon, Olive & Cheese Loaf Cake
A savoury Loaf Cake stuffed full of bacon or ham, olives & cheese. Can be used for all occasions
Servings: 6
Calories: 582kcal
Cost: 34p
Equipment
- 2lb loaf tin
- reusable 2lb loaf tin liner
- or
- greaseproof
- jug
- mixing bowl
- large mixing spoon
- sieve
- wire cooling rack
Ingredients
- 150 ml olive oil Asda £1.50/litre,3p
- 250 g self raising flour 45p/1.5 kg, 7p
- 1 tsp baking powder 2p
- 3 tblsp sweet smoked paprika Rajah 50p/100g, 12p
- ½ tsp dried thyme 59p/17g, 1p
- 100 g cheddar £3.69/825g, 45p
- 150 g cooking bacon 600g/67p, 17p
- 100 g green olives 59p/310g, 30p
- ½ tsp black pepper 1p
- 4 eggs 53p
Metric - US Customary
Instructions
- Priced at Asda April 2019Line a 1.5 litre loaf tin. I use a silicone liner like this one, which I can use over and over again. Or you can line it with baking parchment
- Grill the bacon until crispy, keeping all the juices. Leave to cool.
- In a bowl, sieve in the flour, baking powder and paprika. Add the olives, cheese, bacon and all the juices, thyme and pepper and mix well together.
- Use a jug to whisk together the eggs and oil.
- Now treat the mixture like a muffin and tip the wet ingredients into the dry, mixing just enough to combine. Lots of mixing will toughen the finished loaf. Transfer the mixture to the lined tin and bake at 200c/400f/gas mark 6 for 45-50 minutes until golden. Leave in the tin for a few minutes to firm up before turning out onto a wire rack to finish cooling. click here to start a 45 minute timer
Notes
If enjoying this glorious loaf as a main meal, serve 1/6 per person with a salad of iceberg and cucumber, or some hot veg. It’s pretty difficult to cut into neat slices when hot, so if you want it hot, I would make it in individual portions in small loaf tins or muffin tins.
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Nutrition
Calories: 582kcal | Carbohydrates: 36g | Protein: 20g | Fat: 41g | Saturated Fat: 10g | Cholesterol: 127mg | Sodium: 413mg | Potassium: 358mg | Fiber: 4g | Sugar: 1g | Vitamin A: 4030IU | Calcium: 205mg | Iron: 3mg
