Hello everybody, it is me again, Dan, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, vasilopita. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Vasilopita is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. They are fine and they look wonderful. Vasilopita is something that I have loved my entire life.
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To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have vasilopita using 10 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Vasilopita:
- Prepare 600 g sugar
- Make ready 600 g flour
- Prepare 300 g butter
- Prepare 300 g cold milk
- Get 6 eggs
- Prepare 3/4 tbsp cream of tartar
- Prepare 3/4 tsp baking soda
- Make ready 1 small cup of brandy
- Get 1 vanillin (or 1/2 tsp vanilla extract)
- Take orange zest
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.
Steps to make Vasilopita:
- Beat the butter till it is properly creamed and then add the sugar and combine well.
- Separate the eggs and add the yolks one at a time. Then add half of the milk and all the flour and vanillin.
- While continuing stirring, add the rest of the milk where we've already put the cream of tartar and the whites of the eggs beaten to a meringue.
- Add the baking soda with the cognac and the zest, last.
- Place in a buttered pan and bake for about 1 hour at 200°, depending on your oven. If it is a strong one, bake at 180 and allow a bit more of baking time. Anyway, since every oven is different and baking time also depends on the pan, do the test with the knife and let it in the oven till the knife comes out clean.
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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