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Vasilopita is a traditional Greek cake with a coin inside made for New Year’s Eve. This recipe is flavored with vanilla, orange zest, cinnamon and finely ground hazelnuts.
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The most famous Greek traditional cakes are probably Fanouropita and Vasilopita. Fanouropita is made for St. Fanourios day and Vasilopita is made for New Year’s Eve.

There are a lot of recipes for Greek Vasilopita which is made for New Year’s Eve and in most cases it is a cake or a round sweet bread like Tsoureki or challah. In other parts of Greece the traditional Vasilopita is a savory pie with phyllo dough and minced meat filling something like this Greek minced meat pie.

Today, most recipes are sweet, but it’s safe to say that the key factors to name any recipe a Vasilopita is that it has to have a hidden coin inside and it has to be cut on New Year’s Eve, just when the clock hits 12.