Greek Sponge Cake
Greek Sponge Cake

Hey everyone, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, greek sponge cake. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Greek Sponge Cake is one of the most favored of recent trending foods in the world. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. Greek Sponge Cake is something which I have loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.

Transfer the cake batter to the pan and spread evenly. Remove from the oven, cut in pieces, and while it's hot pour the cooled syrup evenly over the cake. Sponge Cake (pantespani, in Greek) is the base for many desserts.

To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have greek sponge cake using 11 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Greek Sponge Cake:
  1. Prepare 5 Eggs
  2. Get 200 ml Olive Oil
  3. Get 1 Lemon Zest
  4. Get 225 grams Greek Yogurt
  5. Prepare 225 grams Caster Sugar
  6. Get 200 grams Semolina
  7. Make ready 150 grams Plain Flour
  8. Get 75 grams Ground Almonds
  9. Prepare 1 tsp Baking Powder
  10. Prepare 1 Juice of Lemon
  11. Take 50 ml Honey

Set the heat to medium and bring the mixture to a boil. Remove the pan from the heat and set aside. Pantespani is a traditional light sponge cake, soaked in a light syrup. It can be served as is, with toppings such as whipped cream and strawberries (similar to strawberry shortcake), with some toasted almonds, or other toppings of your choice, and without the syrup as any other sponge cake.

Steps to make Greek Sponge Cake:
  1. Pre heat oven @ gas mark 5 or 180c. Put the lemon (now zested) and the honey to one side to make the syrup topping later.
  2. Mix all the other ingredients together in a large bowl until smooth & creamy.
  3. Add to a medium ceramic or glass baking dish (around 20 by 30 cm), rather than a cake tin.
  4. Place in the oven for 30-35 minutes until to top have risen slightly in the centre and the colour is light golden brown.
  5. Leave to cool for an hour.
  6. With a sharp knife, poke lots of hole in the top of the cake, ready to add the lemon and honey.
  7. Add the lemon juice and honey in a small pan and heat until the honey has melted with the lemon into a warm liquid. Take a tea spoon and add this to the cake top to give a glaze which will seep into the sponge.
  8. Leave for another hour before eating so that the syrup can seep into the sponge.

The tastes of orange, cloves, and cinnamon give it a lovely taste and fabulous aroma. Greek Walnut Cake What's A Greek Walnut Sponge Cake? In Greece, we call it Karydopita and it's pronounced more like Kari-th-o-pita. It's a syrup-soaked sponge cake, spiced with cinnamon, ground cloves, and brandy, and loaded with chopped walnuts (inside and on top). In other words, it's full of what I call Christmas-y flavor because it reminds me so much of our Traditional Christmas.

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