Greek walnut cake

This Greek walnut cake is very easy to make. And very healthy! The perfect Sunday afternoon treat for a beginning autumn.

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Prep Time 15 mins

Cook Time 40 mins

Total Time 55 mins

Course Dessert

Cuisine Greek

Servings persons

Calories 590 kcal

Equipment

1 cake mold 26cm diameter

Ingredients

for the cake

300 gram walnuts
150 gram flour
150 gram butter
120 gram sugar
10 gram baking powder
6 tablespoons Vitaxos or a similar Greek brandy
4 eggs
2 tablespoons cinnamon

for the finishing (optional)

10 ml water
8 gram sugar
1 teaspoon Vitaxos
1 teaspoon cinnamon
zest of a quarter of an orange

Instructions

for the cake

Mix the dry ingredients in a bowl: flour, baking powder and sugar.
Finely chop the walnuts in the food processor and add to the dry ingredients in the bowl.
Melt the butter in a pan. Break the eggs, keeping the white and yellow separate.
Successively add the egg yolk and the melted butter to the dry ingredients for the dough. You now have a fairly dry mixture. But no problem, the beaten egg white still has to come!
Beat the egg white until very firm. Then gently mix it into the dough.
Preheat the oven to 190°C. Brush a cake tin with butter.
Transfer the dough into the pie pan. Bake in the oven for 40 minutes.

for the finishing (optional)

After you have removed the cake from the oven and let it cool, you can optionally add an extra syrup.
To do this, heat the water with the sugar. Add the Vitaxos, cinnamon and zest.
Let it integrate for a while and then cover the cake with the syrup.

Nutrition

Serving: 1pieceCalories: 590kcalCarbohydrates: 42gProtein: 11gFat: 42gSaturated Fat: 13gPolyunsaturated Fat: 19gMonounsaturated Fat: 8gTrans Fat: 1gCholesterol: 122mgSodium: 286mgPotassium: 231mgFiber: 4gSugar: 21gVitamin A: 601IUVitamin C: 1mgCalcium: 153mgIron: 3mg

Keyword cake, Greek style, walnuts

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