Hello everybody, it’s me again, Dan, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, vasilopita with chocolate chips and hazelnuts. One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Vasilopita with chocolate chips and hazelnuts is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals on earth. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions daily. They are fine and they look fantastic. Vasilopita with chocolate chips and hazelnuts is something that I’ve loved my entire life.
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.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have vasilopita with chocolate chips and hazelnuts using 11 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Vasilopita with chocolate chips and hazelnuts:
- Take 1 1/2 cup butter
- Make ready 2 1/2 cups sugar
- Take 6 eggs, yolks and egg whites separate
- Make ready 4 1/2 cups self rising flour
- Make ready 1 tsp baking powder
- Take 1/4 tsp salt
- Take zest of 1 orange
- Prepare 1 cup orange juice
- Make ready 1 cup roasted and finely chopped hazelnuts
- Get 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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