Vasilopita the traditional New Year’s Eve Greek Cake. Vasilopita is a traditional Greek cake served at midnight on New Year's Eve to celebrate the life of Saint Basil. After baking the cake, a coin is inserted through the base and when cut the person who finds the coin is said to be granted luck for the rest of the year! Traditional Greek New Years Day bread. Vasilopita the traditional New Year’s Eve Greek Cake

You can have Vasilopita the traditional New Year’s Eve Greek Cake using 10 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Vasilopita the traditional New Year’s Eve Greek Cake
  1. Prepare 4 cups of shifted All Purpose Flour.
  2. You need 2 cups of Sugar.
  3. Prepare 6 teaspoons of Baking Powder.
  4. Prepare 6 of Eggs.
  5. It’s 250 grams of Butter.
  6. You need 1 1/2 cups of Milk.
  7. You need 2 of Vanilla powders or 1 tablespoon Vanilla extract.
  8. You need 25 grams of Cognac 🙂 (optional).
  9. It’s 125 grams of Almonds cut in half.
  10. You need of Sugar Powder for Topping.

Every household bakes (or now in many cases buys) a Vasilopita, the New Year's cake named after St Basil. On New Year's Day the cake is cut into slices for everyone in the household and family. Greek New Year's Cake - Vasilopita A traditional Greek cake, flavored with orange and brandy, served on New Year's day with a hidden coin inside. A coin is hidden within the cake; the person who finds it is granted good luck for the year.

Vasilopita the traditional New Year’s Eve Greek Cake step by step

  1. In a large bowl add in the shifted flour, sugar and baking powder..

  2. Add in the room temperature butter and Vanilla..

  3. Beat ingredients and slowly start to add in the eggs, and milk..

  4. Continue to beat and add in the almonds and cognac..

  5. In a buttered baking pan add 1 teaspoon of flour to cover the bottom and sides of the pan..

  6. Pre heat oven at 180 degrees…and pour batter into baking pan and bake for 50 minutes and until golden brown. Top with Sugar Powder and INDULGE!!! 🙂.

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See You Next Year!!!!.

Vasilopita (Greek: Βασιλόπιτα, Vasilópita, lit.'(St.) Basil-pie' or 'Vassilis pie', see below) is a New Year's Day bread or cake in Greece and many other areas in eastern Europe and the Balkans which contains a hidden coin or trinket which gives good luck to the receiver, like the Western European. Greece has a lovely tradition of baking a special cake for the New Year, to start things off right! Those who follow the tradition strictly hide a golden lira coin in the bottom of the cake but any coin will do. Vasilopita is the cake with which Greeks welcome the New Year. Cutting Vasilopitta has a specific ritual that is followed with devotion.