Easy and Elegant Olive Oil Cake

I consider myself a pretty good cook. I can neatly break down a chicken, and make mayonnaise from scratch. I can pleat dumplings, roll futomaki, fry doughnuts and, on one occasion, have turned carrots into roses.But I cannot, for the life of me, take butter out of the fridge to soften.This is why, whenever I want cake or am asked to bring a cake to a thing, I make an olive oil cake. This olive oil cake from Sam…