Recipe Below👇
Ingredients
125g unsalted butter (room temperature)
1x cup caster sugar
4x whole eggs
1x cup olive oil
50ml brandy
1x teaspoon vanilla essence
½ cup Greek yoghurt
1x cup of orange juice
The zest of 2 oranges
1x teaspoon baking powder
Pinch of salt
3x cups of self-raising flour
Decoration ingredients (optional)*
½ cup icing sugar
2x dehydrated orange slices
Instructions
- Mix the butter and sugar together until fluffy and creamy.
- Whilst still mixing on a lower speed, add in the eggs, olive oil, brandy, vanilla, and yoghurt.
- Preheat the oven to 170°.
- Grate the zest of two oranges and juice 1 cup of juice (roughly 3 oranges).
- Add in the orange juice and mix.
- Then add in the orange zest, baking powder, and two cups of flour (to start) and mix.
- Add a pinch of salt.
- Then add in another cup of flour and mix until you get a nice batter consistency (so add more if needed and I say this, because different flours react differently).
- Grease/line your cake tin and pour the batter in.
- Tap your tin on the bench just to ensure the batter has no air pockets and is evenly distributed.
- Get your lucky vasilopita coin and wrap it with foil, then close your eyes and place the coin randomly.
- Place into the oven and bake for roughly 45 minutes but keep your eye on it between 35 minutes on, so it doesn’t burn.
- Once cooked, take out of the oven, and set aside to cool down, then transfer to a wired tray.
- Once cooled, decorate* to your desire. I have used icing sugar and dried oranges for this recipe. But you can decorate with anything you like – slithered/sliced almonds, icing sugar, pomegranate, orange slices etc..
Chrisanthi
I used this recipe for new years this year and it was fantastic! will be using again this year Nikolopaa!