Preparation
10 min
Baking Time
45 min
Servings
–
An easy recipe for a tasty “karidopita” with chocolate, one of the most famous traditional sweets in Greece!
Ingredient
- 500 g chopped walnuts
- 250 gr. fresh butter
- 200 gr. sugar
- 8 eggs
- 200 gr. toast
- 4 tbsp. baking powder
- 1 tbsp. cinnamon powder
- 1/2 tbsp. clove powder
- zest of 1 orange
- 75 ml of brandy
For the syrup:
- 500 ml of water
- 500 g sugar
- 70 ml of brandy
- 1 vanilla
- 1 tbsp orange juice
- 1 orange peel
For the chocolate icing:
- 250 gr. butter
- 200 gr. powdered sugar
- 200 g chocolate in tears
Execution
- Preheat the oven to 170 degrees.
- Butter a baking tray of about 35 cm and sprinkle it with flour, shake off the extra flour.
- Beat the sugar with the butter in the mixer for about 4 minutes until it becomes a white and fluffy mixture.
- Add the eggs one by one, gradually continuing to beat.
- Add the brandy and the orange zest and beat for a while.
- Set the mixture aside.
- In a large bowl add all the powdered ingredients [toast, cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, baking powder] and mix well.
- Finally, crush the walnut, it must be coarsely chopped.
- Add the mixture to the mixer with the butter mixture and mix until smooth.
- Put the mixture in the pan and bake in a preheated oven for 45 minutes.
- Remove the walnut pie from the oven and leave it in the pan on the edge to cool well.
For the syrup:
- Add all the ingredients for the syrup to a saucepan and boil for 10 minutes after it boils.
- Slowly syrup the walnut pie with a large spoon.
- Set aside the walnut pie to absorb the syrup well and cool.
For chocolate glaze:
- In a bowl and over boiling water (bain marie) put the butter over medium heat together with the chocolate and stir until melted.
- Sift the sugar, stirring constantly until the ingredients are combined.
- Remove from the heat for 5-8 minutes to cool slightly and pour over the walnut pie.
- Serve the walnut pie with grated walnut