Cake au Jambon et Olives

This past week I have been very busy working on my thesis. However, on Monday night I was needing a break from writing and decided it was time to cross something off of my New Year's Resolution List: making a cake aux jambon et olives.


This is something Lisa and I learned how to make a few years ago while we lived in France and I have not had the courage to attempt this until now. We decided that since the recipe we tasted in France turned out a little on the oily side, instead I was going to follow a recipe from online which I found here. There are two versions of the recipe on that site and I decided to follow the original as much as possible (looking into this further, I have also found the original recipe in French on several sites). I think the cake turned out well, although a little on the salty side, maybe rinsing the olives next time would help with that...