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When the vasilopita has cooled, pour the glaze over it and let it drip to cover it. In a large bowl, cream the butter and granulated sugar until light and fluffy. Add the eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition. Stir in the lemon juice and vanilla.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook fluffy vasilopita with lemon glaze using 14 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Fluffy vasilopita with lemon glaze:
- Make ready margarine
- Prepare sugar
- Make ready vanilla
- Get eggs
- Make ready milk
- Make ready brandy
- Take zest of one orange
- Make ready flour
- Prepare baking powder
- Make ready mahlab
- Take ground walnuts
- Prepare For the glaze
- Take icing sugar
- Make ready lemon juice
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. 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. The Vasilopita lucky cake has many different versions.
Steps to make Fluffy vasilopita with lemon glaze:
- Cream the margarine and the sugar with the vanilla in a mixer at a strong speed.
- Use another bowl to beat the egg whites until they form stiff peaks.
- Beat lightly using a fork, the milk, the egg yolks, the brandy and the orange zest in a third bowl and combine the mixture with that of the margarine - sugar - vanilla, using a low setting on your mixer.
- Continue at a very low speed adding the stiff egg whites into the mixture and mix until you have a well incorporated batter.
- Using a different bowl sift the flour and add the mahlab, the baking powder and the walnuts, then add this to the mixture little by little using a spoon, continuing to beat at a very low speed.
- When the mixture is well combined, empty it into a baking tray of 26 cm or the round Tupperware cake mold.
- Bake at 180°C for 50΄-60.
- Prepare the glaze, which should be very thick by adding as much lemon to the icing sugar as it takes (about 1 lemon).
- When the vasilopita has cooled, pour the glaze over it and let it drip to cover it.
- Decorate your cake using your imagination and your taste…
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. The Vasilopita lucky cake has many different versions. The oldest one is a sweet bread, scented with various spices, like anise. The most common one nowadays, is a spongy, fluffy cake, usually scented with orange or lemon zest. Some people also like to add liquor, like brandy or bitter almond liqueur (amaretto).
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