Tahinopita – Greek Style Tahini Cake with Orange Blossom Glaze
Tahinopita – Greek Style Tahini Cake with Orange Blossom Glaze

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As these little Greek tahini cakes contain no butter or eggs they tend to be on the crumbly side, but they're delicious nonetheless, especially 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. Tahinopita is a Greek cake that is made with tahini (a sesame paste), orange, and dried fruit.

To get started with this recipe, we must 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:
  1. Take tahini cake:
  2. Get all purpose flour
  3. Take baking powder
  4. Get baking soda
  5. Make ready sea salt
  6. Prepare sesame seeds
  7. Take olive oil
  8. Get freshly squeezed orange juice
  9. Make ready orange blossom water (optional)
  10. Make ready sugar
  11. Take apple cider vinegar
  12. Prepare ground all spice
  13. Make ready orange blossom glaze:
  14. Take pure icing sugar, sifted
  15. Take freshly squeezed lemon juice
  16. Make ready orange blossom water

TCypriot Traditional Tahinopita is a Lenten or vegan sweet bread, which is very flavourful as it is filled with tahini, sugar and cinnamon. In the title I stress the word "Cypriot" Tahinopita because I searched the web for information about the Cypriot tahinopita (tahini bread) but could not find this. If this cake is to be Lenten, then grease a loaf pan with olive oil, otherwise, use butter, and dust pan with flour. Unhulled tahini would make this cake bitter and unpleasant, so not recommended.

Steps to make Tahinopita – Greek Style Tahini Cake with Orange Blossom Glaze:
  1. To prepare tahini: In a pan, over low heat, toast sesame seeds until fragrant and very lightly colored (not brown), 3 to 5 minutes.
  2. 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.
  3. To prepare cake: Preheat oven to 350°F (175°C). Grease and line a 9" baking pan with parchment paper.
  4. Sift together the dry ingredients (flour, baking powder, baking soda, all spice powder, salt) in a medium bowl.
  5. Place the tahini in a large mixing bowl, add orange juice, sugar and orange blossom water and whisk until smooth (at least one minute).
  6. Add in the dry ingredients in thirds, and fold to incorporate.
  7. Then add the apple cider vinegar and stir quickly to incorporate (this reacts with the baking soda and puts air into the cake).
  8. Pour half of the batter into the prepared pan and smooth out the top.
  9. Bake for 30-40 minutes until golden on top and a toothpick inserted into the middle comes out clean.
  10. Let cool for 10-15 minutes before removing from pan.
  11. For the orange blossom glaze, combine all the ingredients in a bowl until smooth.
  12. Spoon the glaze over the cooled cakes. Slice and serve.

If your tahini is super runny, you may want to add a tbsp of coconut oil to the recipe to help the cake. Learn how to prepare and bake the recipe for Tahinopita, also known as Greek sesame cake made with tahini. Add egg and reduce the mixer speed to low. In a separate bowl, whisk flour, baking soda and salt together and add slowly to the tahini mixture, mixing well until forming a Think of these tahini cookies as grown-up peanut butter cookies. Greek Orange Semolina Cake with Orange Syrup.

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