Name: Walnut cake
Yield: Serves 10–12
Cuisine: Greek
Ingredients: 30 ml/2 tbsp brandy; 250 g/9 oz/1¼ cups caster/superfine sugar; 5 ml/1 tsp baking powder; pinch of salt; 150 g/5 oz/1¼ cups self-raising/self-rising flour; 2.5 ml/½ tsp ground cinnamon; 2–3 strips of pared orange rind; 2 cinnamon sticks; 300 g/11 oz/2¾ cups shelled walnuts, coarsely chopped; 4 eggs, separated; 115 g/4 oz/generous ½ cup caster/superfine sugar; 150 g/5 oz/10 tbsp unsalted butter; vegetable oil, for greasing; 60 ml/4 tbsp brandy; 300 ml/½ pint/1¼ cups water

Preparation info

Serves
10–12

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

The Food & Cooking of Greece

By Rena Salaman

Published 2023

About

This luscious cake, karythopitta, is one of the finest Greek desserts of all. On the islands, it is traditionally made for name day celebrations, when any number of guests may drop in during the evening to convey their good wishes and receive a sweet morsel of syrup-drenched cake.