Hey everyone, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, vasilopita with chocolate chips and hazelnuts. It is one of my favorites. This time, I will make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Hazelnut-Anise-Chocolate Chip Vasilopita Replace the almonds with chopped hazelnuts and the mahlab with anise seed. To me traditional Vasilopita is the one from Constantinople and also served in parts of northern Greece. That recipe is more bread-like and not as sweet.
Vasilopita with chocolate chips and hazelnuts is one of the most popular of current trending meals in the world. It is appreciated by millions daily. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. They are nice and they look fantastic. Vasilopita with chocolate chips and hazelnuts is something which I have loved my whole life.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook 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
- Take 2 1/2 cups sugar
- Make ready 6 eggs, yolks and egg whites separate
- Make ready 4 1/2 cups self rising flour
- Take 1 tsp baking powder
- Prepare 1/4 tsp salt
- Get zest of 1 orange
- Get 1 cup orange juice
- Prepare 1 cup roasted and finely chopped hazelnuts
- Prepare 1 cup chocolate chips
- Prepare icing sugar for sprinkling
Greece has a lovely tradition of baking a special cake for the New Year, to start things off right! Those who follow the tradition strictly hide a golden lira coin in the bottom of the cake but any coin will do. Eating vasilopita is a Greek Christian tradition that celebrates St. Basil's Day, or New Year's Day, but similar traditions are present throughout Eastern Europe.
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'.
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. Vasilopita 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. Stir in the chocolate chips and hazelnuts. I used fat-free hazelnut cinnamon non-dairy creamer in place of the buttermilk and left out the hazelnuts.
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