Hey everyone, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, tahinopita – greek style tahini cake with orange blossom glaze. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Gradually add orange juice alternately with dry ingredients. Stir in walnuts and sultana raisins. For the orange blossom glaze, combine all the ingredients in a bowl until smooth. Add a little water, if necessary to make an opaque but pourable glaze.
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To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook tahinopita – greek style tahini cake with orange blossom glaze using 16 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Tahinopita – Greek Style Tahini Cake with Orange Blossom Glaze:
- Get tahini cake:
- Prepare 2 1/4 cups all purpose flour
- Prepare 1 tbsp baking powder
- Get 1/2 tsp baking soda
- Prepare 1/2 tsp sea salt
- Get 1 cup sesame seeds
- Get 3 tbsp olive oil
- Take 1 1/4 cup (300 ml) freshly squeezed orange juice
- Prepare 1-2 tsp orange blossom water (optional)
- Take 1/2 cup sugar
- Get 1 tsp apple cider vinegar
- Get 1 tsp ground all spice
- Make ready orange blossom glaze:
- Prepare 125 g (1 cup) pure icing sugar, sifted
- Get 1 tbsp freshly squeezed lemon juice
- Take 1/2 tsp orange blossom water
Spread evenly and knock base of pan on table top to settle batter. Stir all the ingredients together in a large bowl (add the flour at the end, little by little). Pour the mixture in a lightly oiled pan and sift sesame seeds evenly over the top of the pie. Most of us are likely familiar with tahini as an ingredient in hummus or in a sauce for falafel.
Steps to make Tahinopita – Greek Style Tahini Cake with Orange Blossom Glaze:
- To prepare tahini: In a pan, over low heat, toast sesame seeds until fragrant and very lightly colored (not brown), 3 to 5 minutes.
- In a food processor, process sesame seeds and olive oil into a paste, scraping down the sides. Add more olive oil until you reach the desired consistency. This makes nearly 3/4 cup tahini paste.
- To prepare cake: Preheat oven to 350°F (175°C). Grease and line a 9" baking pan with parchment paper.
- Sift together the dry ingredients (flour, baking powder, baking soda, all spice powder, salt) in a medium bowl.
- Place the tahini in a large mixing bowl, add orange juice, sugar and orange blossom water and whisk until smooth (at least one minute).
- Add in the dry ingredients in thirds, and fold to incorporate.
- Then add the apple cider vinegar and stir quickly to incorporate (this reacts with the baking soda and puts air into the cake).
- Pour half of the batter into the prepared pan and smooth out the top.
- Bake for 30-40 minutes until golden on top and a toothpick inserted into the middle comes out clean.
- Let cool for 10-15 minutes before removing from pan.
- For the orange blossom glaze, combine all the ingredients in a bowl until smooth.
- Spoon the glaze over the cooled cakes. Slice and serve.
Pour the mixture in a lightly oiled pan and sift sesame seeds evenly over the top of the pie. Most of us are likely familiar with tahini as an ingredient in hummus or in a sauce for falafel. It has many uses in the savory kitchen, but it can also be used in sweet dishes. This cake bakes up light and high with walnuts and golden raisins, dusted with a bit of powdered sugar. This is a sweet Greek cake made with sesame seed paste (AKA tahini).
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