Sweet
Easter bread
Serves/Yields: 1 bread
Difficulty: High
Season: All seasons
Greek: Tsoureki
It might be called easter bread but tsoureki is baked all year round.
Greek Easter Cookies from Smyrna
Serves/Yields: 5 dozen
Difficulty: Medium
Season: Spring
Greek: Pashalina koulourakia apo ti Smyrni
From GREEK-RECIPE yahoo group
Traditional Vasilopita with mahlep and mastic
Serves/Yields: 2 rounded baking pans of 25 - 30 cm diameter
Time: 3 hours
Difficulty: Medium
Season: Winter
Greek: Vasilopita
This recipe is provided by a friend of Greek-Recipe.com, Nikos Lymberopoulos. He enjoys cooking as much as we do and every year he follows this recipe to prepare the traditional New Year’s Eve cake (aka Vasilopita). This one has the scent of Tsoureki (Easter bread) because it has Mahlep.
Sweet Almond triangles
Serves/Yields: 35 - 37 pieces
Season: Winter
Greek: Trigona amigdalota
Nice sweet for the Christmas table!
New Year’s Eve cake (2)
Time: 1,5 hour
Difficulty: Medium
Greek: Vassilopita
Recipe is from aunt Julie’s recipe book
Melomakarona
Serves/Yields: approx. 80 pieces
Difficulty: High
Season: Winter
Greek: Melonakarona tis Sias
Author’s note: These cakes are traditionally served at Christmas. Unlike other recipes for melomakarona, these are soft and not dipped into syrup. Syrup is poured over them.
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