Episode Recipes
Yiayia’s Flaounopita (Cypriot Celebration Cheese Cake)
COOK TIME: 1 hr 30 mins
SERVES: 4-6
Jacqui A Cypriot Easter cheese cake packed with halloumi, kefalotyri, sultanas and mint, finished with a warm honey and orange glaze.
Ingredients List
Cake
Honey-citrus glaze
Method
- Preheat the oven to 180 degrees Celsius. Grease the Bundt tin well.
- Pound the mastic to a fine powder with a little of the sugar so it does not clump.
- Beat the eggs and sugar until pale and thick, then beat in the sunflower oil and yoghurt.
- Mix in the mahlepi and ground mastic.
- Fold in the self-raising flour sifted with the baking powder.
- Stir through the grated halloumi, grated kefalotyri, sultanas and chopped mint.
- Pour into the prepared Bundt tin and level the top.
- Bake at 180 degrees Celsius for about 45 minutes, until golden and a skewer comes out clean.
- Toast the sesame in a dry pan until golden. Make the glaze: warm the honey with the orange juice and zest. Turn the cake out, brush all over with the glaze while warm, then garnish generously with the toasted sesame.
- Cool before slicing.
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