New Year’s cake
With Flour/Fyllo,
New Year’s cake
Serves12 pieces
Cooks In10' preparation | 1 hour baking
DifficultyMedium
Ingredients
- 1 cup butter
- 1 ¾ cups sugar
- 5 large eggs (separated)
- 1 pinch of salt
- 4 cups of self-rising flour
- 7 ?. oz fresh orange juice
- 1/3 cup cognac
- 1 tbsp. ground cinnamon, ground cloves and ground nutmeg (mixed)
- 1 tsp. vanilla powder, flat
- Zest of 2 unwaxed oranges
- 5 oz walnuts, roughly chopped
- Confectioner’s sugar for sprinkling
Method
- All the ingredients must be at room temperature.
- Beat the egg whites with the salt until soft peaks begin to form.
- Beat the butter and the sugar in the mixer for 5-6 minutes, until fluffy.
- Add the egg yolks one by one, waiting for each yolk to be absorbed before adding the next one.
- Then mix in the vanilla powder, orange zest, spice, and cognac.
- Add the flour and the juice, alternating.
- Fold in half of the egg whites with a spatula to loosen the mixture.
- Add the chopped walnuts and gently fold in the remaining egg whites.
- Grease an 11–inch pan and line with baking paper.
- Empty the mixture and insert the lucky charm.
- Preheat oven to 340°F and bake on the bottom rack for 1 hour.
- Check the cake is cooked with the blade of a knife – it should come out dry and clean.
- As soon as the cake rises, pulls away from the sides of the pan and turns a golden-brown color, it is ready.
- Let it stand for 10 minutes before removing from the pan.
- Discard baking paper.
Sprinkle with confectioner’s sugar and write a wish for the New Year in melted chocolate.