🇬🇷 Vasilopita. Vasilopita is a sweet Greek New Year's bread. This person who receives the coin hidden inside is considered to be especially blessed for the year. Vasilopita (Greek: Βασιλόπιτα, Vasilópita, lit.'(St.) Basil-pie' or 'princess 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.
Basil's Day, or New Year's Day, but similar traditions are present throughout Eastern Europe.
It's traditionally sliced into at midnight at the New Year and served to each member of the family in order of age, starting with the eldest.
A vasilopita (depending on the part of Greece that it originates from) is a yeast bread or a dry cake.
You can cook 🇬🇷 Vasilopita using 10 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you achieve it.
Ingredients of 🇬🇷 Vasilopita
- Prepare 600 g of sucre.
- You need 600 g of farine.
- It's 300 g of beurre.
- Prepare 300 g of lait froid.
- Prepare 6 of oeufs.
- Prepare 3/4 cuillère à soupe of crème.
- You need 3/4 c of à café de bicarbonate de soude.
- It's 1 of petite tasse de cognac.
- Prepare 1 gousse of vanille (ou 1/2 c. À thé d'extrait de vanille).
- You need of zeste d'orange.
It always contains mastic, mahleb, and/or jest (orange or lemon) and, occasionally, the juice. The person whose piece contains the coin is expected to have good luck and blessings for the upcoming year. There are many ways to bake a vasilopita. Some versions are very bread-like, and similar to the Easter tsoureki.
🇬🇷 Vasilopita instructions
- Battre le beurre jusqu'à ce qu'il soit bien crèmeux, puis ajouter le sucre et bien mélanger..
- Séparez les œufs et ajoutez les jaunes un à la fois. Ajoutez ensuite la moitié du lait et toute la farine et la gousse de vanille..
- Tout en continuant de mélanger, ajoutez le reste du lait, la crème et le blanc des œufs battus en meringue..
- Ajoutez le bicarbonate de soude avec le cognac et le zeste, en dernier. Placez dans un moule beurré et faites cuire environ 1 heure à 200 ° C (selon votre four)..
Vasilopita is a moist cake made with ingredients everyone has at home: sugar, flour, eggs, milk and orange. There is another more bread-like version made with yeast, which is a bit, more time consuming, but in our family we make and like the cake version. Vasilopita - Greek Saint Basil's New Year's Cake. A very traditional Greek Cake that celebrates the life of Saint Basil. Usually served at New Year, it is quick and delicious at any time.