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Vassipolita: a recipe by Stelios Parliaros for the Greek New Year’s cake

Vassipolita: a recipe by Stelios Parliaros for the Greek New Year’s cake

This is the year’s last weekend! It is time to make our ‘vassilopita” cake with the recipe by Stelios Parliaros!

Don’t forget to put the lucky coin inside the cake!

Ingredients:

- 4 eggs

- 250 grams of sugar

- 250 grams of butter

- 300 grams of flour

- 1 teaspoonful of baking powder

- grated orange rind of 1 orange

- 1 teaspoonful of cinnamon

- 200 grams of raisins

 

Cooking procedure:
Mix the eggs and the sugar until they become one and fluffy. Stir in the flour gradually and then add the melted butter, the baking powder, the cinnamon, the orange rind and finally the raisins, mixing well after each addition. Pour the mixture in a baking pan with a diameter of 24 cm. that has been already coated with butter and flour. Bake for 45 minutes to 1 hour in a preheated oven at 170οC. Let it cool and then

sprinkle with caster sugar.

 

For more information watch the video of Stelios Parliaros from his show “Sweet Alchemies” on Mega Channel.  

From: Eva Kanellopoulos

 
 

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