Hello everybody, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, vasilopita. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
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To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook vasilopita using 10 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Vasilopita:
- Make ready 250 g spreadable butter or clarified butter
- Get 8 eggs
- Prepare 900 g flour
- Get 100 g brandy
- Get 500 g sugar
- Make ready the juice of 6-7 oranges
- Take 1 tsp baking soda
- Get 1 tsp orange zest
- Prepare 2 tsp baking powder
- Get icing sugar
Eating vasilopita is a Greek Christian tradition that celebrates St. Basil's Day, or New Year's Day, but similar traditions are present throughout Eastern Europe. It's traditionally sliced into at midnight at the New Year and served to each member of the family in order of age, starting with the eldest. Vasilopita is a moist cake made with ingredients everyone has at home: sugar, flour, eggs, milk and orange.
Instructions to make Vasilopita:
- Place the butter in a bowl and whisk vigorously until it gets creamy white.
- Place the egg yolks in another bowl with the sugar and beat until they become fluffy, follow by adding the mixture to the butter and mix, then add the brandy.
- Place the juice and the baking soda in a large bolw and mix, when it foams add the juice to the bowl with the butter.
- Beat the egg whites in a clean bowl until they form stiff peaks and then add them to the butter. Mix well and then add the orange zest and the baking powder. Add the flour gradually until you have a soft thick batter.
- Pour it into a round baking tray that you have brushed with butter and bake at 200°C for 50-60 minutes (make sure that it is ready by piercing it with a clean dry knife at the center. The knife has to come out clean).
- Remove, let it cool lightly and take it out of the baking tray.
- Sprinkle with icing sugar and serve.
There is another more bread-like version made with yeast, which is a bit, more time consuming, but in our family we make and like the cake version. A vasilopita (depending on the part of Greece that it originates from) is a yeast bread or a dry cake. It always contains mastic, mahleb, and/or jest (orange or lemon) and, occasionally, the juice. A delicious vasilopita recipe (Greek New Years cake) infused with the aromas of oranges and garnished with a thick and glossy vanilla glaze! Vasilopita is a traditional Greek cake served at midnight on New Year's Eve to celebrate the life of Saint Basil.
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