Vasilopita. Vasilopita, or Greek New Year's Bread, is a sweet yeasted egg bread scented with orange and traditionally served on New Year's day. Vasilopita recipe - How to make the perfect Greek New Year's cake! Once starting to prepare this vasilopita recipe, make sure that your butter is at room temperature before using. Vasilopita

You can cook Vasilopita using 10 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Vasilopita
  1. You need 250 g of spreadable butter or clarified butter.
  2. Prepare 8 of eggs.
  3. You need 900 g of flour.
  4. Prepare 100 g of brandy.
  5. It’s 500 g of sugar.
  6. It’s of the juice of 6-7 oranges.
  7. It’s 1 tsp of baking soda.
  8. Prepare 1 tsp of orange zest.
  9. It’s 2 tsp of baking powder.
  10. Prepare of icing sugar.

It is tradition for each family to have their own vasilopita and a piece is cut. On New Year's Day, Greek families cut the Vasilopita to bless the house and bring good luck for the new year. Vasilopita is considered the Greek New Year's cake. Vasilopita is a Greek New Year's cake with a coin or a trinket baked inside of it.

Vasilopita step by step

  1. Place the butter in a bowl and whisk vigorously until it gets creamy white..

  2. 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..

  3. 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..

  4. 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..

  5. 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)..

  6. Remove, let it cool lightly and take it out of the baking tray..

  7. Sprinkle with icing sugar and serve..

The cake is enriched with a sweet flavoring, symbolizing the sweetness and joy of life and hope that the New Year will be. Vasilopita - Greek New Year's Cake Vasilopita - Greek New Year's Cake. In Greece, there is a nice tradition of baking the "vasilopita", a special cake for the New Year, to start things off right! Of course, also the Omilo-team cuts the Vasilopita every year in the Athens school.