Vasilopita - Greek New Year's Cake
Celebrate the New Year with Vasilopita, a traditional Greek New Year’s Day cake! This light and fluffy cake hides a lucky coin that is said to bring good fortune to the person who finds it. A sweet way to start the year! 🎉
Ingredients
1250g butter
250g sugar
4 eggs
350g self raising flour
1/2 tsp mahaleb
1/2 tsp vanilla powder
1/4 tsp nutmeg
1/2 tsp cinnamon
100ml milk
Zest of 1 orange
1 hour 30 mins to prepare and bake | Serves 8 slices
Method
Preheat the oven to 170 degrees Celsius fan. In a bowl, add the sugar and butter and beat for 5 minutes until light and fluffy.
Add the eggs and continue beating for another 2 minutes until fluffy.
Add the flour, spices, vanilla and milk to the wet ingredients and whisk until incorporated.
Fold in the zested orange using a spatula.
In a pre-greased circular cake tin, pour the cake batter.
Optionally, wrap up a pound coin in foil and hide it in the cake batter.
Bake between 1 hour to 1 hour and 15 minutes until the cake has fully baked (you can test this by poking a knife inside and seeing if it comes out clean).
Once the cake has been baked, remove it from the cake tin and sprinkle icing sugar.