What is a Vasilopita cake?
Vasilopita is the traditional Greek cake or bread served at midnight on New Year’s Eve to celebrate the life of Saint Basil. After baking the Vasilopita cake, a coin is inserted through the base. When cut, the person who finds the coin is said to be granted luck for the rest of the year!
How do you make vasilopita?
To prepare this vasilopita recipe, start by dividing the eggs into yolks and whites. Place the egg whites in the your mixer bowl and add a pinch of salt. Make sure your egg whites, bowl and whisk attachments are clean and free of any water.
How long to bake a Vasilopita cake?
Place the cake tin in the preheated oven, on the lower third rack, turn the heat down to 175C / 350F or 160C/320F fan and bake for 50-60 minutes, until nicely coloured and cooked through. Make sure you don’t open the oven in the first 30 minutes of baking as your Vasilopita will collapse!
What is a Vasilopita coin?
When cut, the person who finds the coin is said to be granted luck for the rest of the year! Vasilopita can be made of a variety of doughs, depending on the region, with almost every family having their own unique recipe.
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- What is a Vasilopita cake?
- How do you make vasilopita?
- How long to bake a Vasilopita cake?
- What is a Vasilopita coin?
- New Year’s Recipe Spotlight: Vasilopita Greek Cake …
- Vasilopita – Greek New Years Cake – Katerina’s Kouzina
- Vasilopita Cake – Vicki’s Greek Recipes
- Vasilopita, the Greek Cake that Gives you Luck for the New …
- 5 things you need to know about Vasilopita | Athens Insider
- The Greek New Year’s Cake: The Vasilopita
- Vasilopita – Greek New Year’s Cake – cookwithtini
- 5 Things you need to know about Vasilopita | Athens …
- Greece’s New Year tradition: Vasilopita and the Golden …
- Vasilopita St Basil’s Cake – Morgan Sisters Recipes