Cake with nuts

Karydopitta

Ingredients

  • 10 eggs
  • 10 tablespoons sugar
  • 10 tablespoons semolina
  • 10 tablespoons ground walnuts
  • 1 teaspoon cinnamon (powder)
  • 1/2 teaspoon cloves (powdered)

for the syrup

  • 3 cups water
  • 3 cups sugar
  • few drops of lemon

Method

  1. In a bowl Beat the egg whites of eggs with 2-3 drops of water until it is firm meringue.
  2. Add sugar and stir gently to not deflate the meringue.
  3. Add-Leo just semolina and stir again gently.
  4. Add yolks, nuts, cinnamon, cloves and stir gently.
  5. Butter a baking dish (30cm-32cm), and sprinkle with a little meal.
  6. Bake in preheated moderate oven about 1h without opening the oven at all not to deflate.
  7. Once it’s out of the oven and cooled, cut into lozenges and pour the hot syrup.
  8. Let the cake for 1h-2h to absorb syrup.
Tips:

In a saucepan put the water with the sugar and boil after leave for 4.
Add the lemon drops and leave for 1 ‘more.