The easiest recipe for Vassilopita is here – puffy and delicious. To honour the most festive day of the year, don’t forget to accompany this cake with the Commandaria ‘Oenou Yi – Ktima Vassiliades’ and clink your glasses to a happier 2023!
Ingredients:
- 3 cups flour
- 250 gr. butter at room temperature
- 1 cup of milk
- 5 eggs
- 300 gr. sugar
- 3 tbsp. baking powder
- 2 vanillas
- zest of one orange
- 1 coin
- icing sugar or coconut for sprinkling
Preparation:
- Preheat the oven to 180°C.
- Mix the butter with sugar, using hand mixer or stand mixer on medium speed 1-2 minutes, or until butter mixture is pale yellow, light and fluffy.
- Add the eggs one by one, so that the mixture absorbs them.
- Add the vanilla and orange zest.
- Reduce the speed of the mixer and successively add the milk, the baking powder and the flour.
- Grease a 20-22 cm diameter baking tray and pour in the mixture. Do not forget your coin, wrapped in foil!
- Bake the cake for 45-50 minutes.
- Once our cake has cooled, unmold it by turning it over, sprinkle it with icing sugar or coconut and decorate it with the number 2023!
- Enjoy Vassilopita alongside a glass of Commandaria ‘Oenou Yi – Ktima Vassiliades’.
May the New Year be filled with health, joy, love and many smiles for you and your loved ones. Happy New Year!
