Karidopita (kah-ree-THOH-pee-tah) is a moist walnut cake that is flavoured with cinnamon and bathed in sweet syrup. The traditional recipe calls for breadcrumbs, a whopping 250g of butter and quite a bit of sugar…Yes, It’s quite decadent, but as a lover of all things cinnamon it definitely has my stamp of approval! My version here is made with Olympian Self Raising Flour and is a little more pleasing to your waistline but just as delicious.
Karodopita Walnut Cake
Servings: 1 cake
Ingredients
2
cupsOlympian Self Raising Flour
- 6 Eggs
- 1 tsp
Olympian Vanilla Powder
- 1 tsp
Olympian Cinnamon
- 1 cup Sugar
- 1 cup Canola oil
- 1 cup Chopped Walnuts
Spiced Syrup
- 1/2 cup (125ml) Water
- 1 cup Castor sugar
- 4 whole Cloves
- 1 stick Cinnamon
Instructions
- Combine eggs, oil, sugar, walnuts and vanilla powder, gradually add flour.
- Beat for approximately 4 minutes.
- Grease pan and pour mixture into pan.
- Bake in oven for approximately 30 minutes at 180 C
- Whilst baking prepare syrup.
- To make the syrup, combine the water, sugar, cloves and cinnamon in a saucepan over low heat. Cook, stirring, for 2-3 minutes or until sugar dissolves. Increase heat to medium-high and bring to a simmer. Cook for 3-4 minutes or until syrup thickens slightly. Remove from heat and discard cloves and cinnamon stick.
- Once cake is baked remove from the oven and pour the syrup over the cake.
- Serve with favourite ice cream or cream.
Hello! how is syrup made? thanks Zoe
Hi Zoe, thank you for picking that up! The syrup ingredients and instructions have now been included.