Greek Orange Cake (Portokalopita)

For the Greek orange cake, first prepare the syrup.

To do this, cut the orange in half, squeeze it, bring the juice to a boil with the sugar, cinnamon, water and orange peel halves and simmer for a few minutes until the syrup thickens.

Brush a tart pan with olive oil, tear the filo pastry sheets into small pieces and pour into the pan – cut one orange in half and slice one half for decoration.

Grate the peels of the remaining oranges, squeeze the oranges.

Beat the juice, zest, sugar, eggs, baking powder, yogurt and olive oil with a mixer until fluffy. Pour the egg-orange mixture over the filo pastry sheets in the mold and mix lightly.

Arrange the orange slices decoratively and place the cake pan in the oven preheated to 180 ° C and bake for about 45 minutes until golden brown -.

Pour the syrup over the still hot Greek orange cake.

Preparation Tip:

Pour the remaining syrup over the kitchen pieces when serving.

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