This is genuinely the worst cake I've eaten in my life. Made it for my grandmother for mother's day and thought the batter was really odd tasting but went ahead with it. I had a bit of leftover batter that I cooked today to see what it tasted like. It is gelatinous and tastes almost entirely like olive oil. I ate one bite, scraped all the sugar on the plate into my mouth in an attempt to cover it up after I tasted it, and still felt like I might throw up after. Now drinking orange juice to drown it out but it's still lingering. I will be making my grandparents another cake as an apology because I feel really bad for giving them this. I've gone over the recipe multiple times, sure that I must have done something incorrectly, but everything lines up with the steps. It has a lot of good reviews so maybe it's a very acquired taste. Personally my entire stomach is cramping after that one bite and I probably won't pick random recipes to make on the spot ever again.
