8+ Vasilopita, The Greek New Year'S Cake Ideas

Hey everyone, I hope you're having an amazing day today. Today, I'm gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, Vasilopita, the Greek New Year's cake. One of my favorites. For mine, I'm gonna make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

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To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have Vasilopita, the Greek New Year's cake using 10 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

In Greece we celebrate New Year maybe even more than Christmas. Everyone gathers with family and eats a festive dinner. We don't have particularly traditional dishes for this, every family has their own favorite dishes, but one thing is constant across Greece: the New Year's cake.
You prepare a cake (and again every family has their own favorite recipe to use), put a coin inside and then, when the clock strikes 12, the house owner cuts the cake in as many pieces as there are people in the house, plus (at least) 3. The first piece is for Christ, the second for the poor, the third for the house and then each piece goes to each person. Whoever finds the coin in their piece gets a small present and they will have luck all year round. If the coin goes to Christ or the poor, the present (or better some money) goes to the church or charity.

This recipe is the New Year's cake that my mother in law makes every year. It's a very simple but fluffy cake.
You can watch a video of this recipe (me and my mother in law making the cake) here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=au-ba0GMg_g It's in Greek, but you will understand if you read the recipe.

Happy New Year!

Ingredients and spices that need to be Make ready to make Vasilopita, the Greek New Year's cake:

1. 250 g sugar
2. 300 g flour
3. 150 g butter
4. 150 g cold milk
5. 3 eggs
6. 2 tsp cream of tartar
7. 1/2 tsp baking soda
8. 60 ml brandy
9. 1 vanillin (or 1/2 tsp vanilla extract)
10. orange zest

Instructions to make to make Vasilopita, the Greek New Year's cake

1. Separate the eggs. Beat the egg whites in a nice meringue.
2. Beat the butter untill it's properly creamed and then add the sugar and beat again.
3. Add the yolks one at a time. Then add half of the milk, the orange zest, the vanillin and slowly all the flour. Beat until you have a nice dough
4. Add the cream of tartar in the rest of the milk and add it to your mix. Continue beating. When everything is incorporated, start adding the add the meringue slowly. Make sure that you are beating at a small speed. Maybe even better do it by hand.
5. As a last step, add the baking soda in the brandy and then add it to your dough. Mix again until you have a perfect cake dough.
6. Place in a buttered pan (or lined with parchment paper) and bake for about 1 hour at 180°C - preheated oven.
7. Every oven is different and baking time also depends on the pan and its size, so do the test with the knife and leave it in the oven till the knife comes out clean.
8. After it's cold, turn it over and place a coin (wrapped in foil) somewhere in the cake.
9. Decorate as you wish. You can cover it with buttercream, or fondand or just plain icing sugar. But you should always write the number of the year.
   My mother in law always covers with icing sugar and makes the number of the year with melted chocolate.
10. This year I was the lucky person to get the coin!

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