How To Make Revani (Greek Coconut Cake with Syrup)
Say goodbye to dry cake with this revani (Greek coconut cake with syrup) recipe. A light and fluffy cake drizzled with syrup on top to keep it moist and sweet.
Prep:
15 mins
Cook:
40 mins
Total:
55 mins
Ingredients
- 1 cup cake flour, sifted
- 3 tsp baking powder
- 1⁄2 cup fine semolina
- 1⁄2 cup coarse semolina
- 1 cup sugar
- 3 eggs, separated
- 1 yogurt, drained
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- lemon juice, or orange, from 1 lemon or orange
- salt, 1 pinch
For Syrup:
- 1½ cup sugar
- 1½ cup water
- orange juice, from 2 to 3 orange
- 1 tsp lemon juice
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 250˚C.
- In a large bowl, combine flour, fine and coarse semolina, and baking powder.
- Separate the egg whites from the egg yolks.
- Mix the egg yolks with sugar at medium to high speed until light and fluffy. Gradually add yogurt and mix over low speed.
- Fold in the flour and semolina mixture. Stir in the vanilla and lemon or orange juice.
- In a separate bowl, mix the egg whites with salt until stiff peaks form. Carefully fold the egg white snow into the batter, so it remains fluffy.
- Butter the baking pan and pour in the batter.
- Bake for 10 minutes at 250˚C. Then, lower the heat to 180˚C and bake for another 20 to 30 minutes. When the cake is baked, let it cool and cut it into individual servings.
- While the cake is baking, prepare the syrup. In a small saucepan, boil sugar, water, orange and lemon juice for 10 minutes, stirring constantly.
- Slowly pour the syrup over the baked revani. Let it cool to room temperature, cover with plastic wrap, and refrigerate overnight.
Nutrition
- Sugar: 233g
- :
- Calcium: 147mg
- Calories: 2156kcal
- Carbohydrates: 484g
- Cholesterol: 41mg
- Fat: 5g
- Fiber: 13g
- Iron: 15mg
- Monounsaturated Fat: 1g
- Polyunsaturated Fat: 2g
- Potassium: 653mg
- Protein: 45g
- Saturated Fat: 1g
- Sodium: 165mg
- Trans Fat: 1g
- Vitamin A: 60IU
- Vitamin C: 1mg
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