INGREDIENTS serves 4
- 200g flour
- 4g baking powder
- 100g butter Olympos,
- at room temperature
- 140g sugar
- 2 eggs
- Zest of 3 lemons
- 120g Greek strained yogurt Olympos
- Pinch of salt
For the syrup
- 220g sugar
- 160ml water
- 1 large juicy lemon (juice)
- 1 lemon (zest)
Sweet beetroot in syrup
(traditional Greek ‘spoon’ sweet) to serve
DIRECTIONS
Sift the flour with the baking powder. Beat butter and sugar in a mixer for 5 minutes at high speed. Add the eggs, lemon zest, salt and the yogurt. Last, add the flour and baking powder. Empty the mixture into a baking tin and bake for about 1 hour at 180oC. In the meantime, prepare the syrup by boiling all the ingredients together for about 5 minutes. Once it boils, do not stir again. Then allow the syrup to boil for another 5 minutes. Pour the syrup over the cake. Allow to cool completely and serve with the beetroot ‘spoon’ sweet