Hello everybody, it’s Jim, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, vasilopita with chocolate chips and hazelnuts. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Optional fillings: dried cranberries, raisins, chopped nuts, candied fruit Brush the tops of vasilopita with the egg wash. Vasilopita pronounced vah-see-LO-pee-tah, is the Greek lucky new year's cake that has a coin hidden in it and is cut at midnight. It is tradition for Vasilopita is not only cut in families, businesses, clubs, associations and ministries all have vasilopites that they cut during the first few weeks of the year.
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To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have vasilopita with chocolate chips and hazelnuts using 11 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Vasilopita with chocolate chips and hazelnuts:
- Get 1 1/2 cup butter
- Prepare 2 1/2 cups sugar
- Get 6 eggs, yolks and egg whites separate
- Make ready 4 1/2 cups self rising flour
- Make ready 1 tsp baking powder
- Get 1/4 tsp salt
- Take zest of 1 orange
- Prepare 1 cup orange juice
- Make ready 1 cup roasted and finely chopped hazelnuts
- Make ready 1 cup chocolate chips
- Prepare icing sugar for sprinkling
Those who follow the tradition strictly hide a golden lira coin in the bottom of the cake but any coin will do. A delicious vasilopita recipe (Greek New Years cake) infused with the aromas of oranges and garnished with a thick and glossy vanilla glaze! Vasilopita is a traditional Greek cake served at midnight on New Year's Eve to celebrate the life of Saint Basil. Stir in the chocolate chips and hazelnuts.
Steps to make Vasilopita with chocolate chips and hazelnuts:
- Mix all the ingredients together exept the egg whites that you have beaten until they form stiff peaks. Add those last.
- After you add the beaten egg whites, add the hazelnuts and the chocolate chips and mix.
- Place the mixture in a 30 cm baking tray that you have brushed with butter and bake at 180°C for about 45'.
I used fat-free hazelnut cinnamon non-dairy creamer in place of the buttermilk and left out the hazelnuts. A friend of mine from London says they are very authentic scones. Using electric mixer, beat butter, hazelnut butter, and both sugars in large bowl until light and fluffy. Remove hazelnuts to a kitchen towel, cover and rub to remove the hazelnut skins. We make vasilopita (New Years day cake) using the tsoureki ingredients so needless to say I made heaps of tsourekia as well!
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