Tahinopita
From jo_jo_ba 16 years ago
- 35 minutes to make
- Serves 12
This is a sweet Greek cake made with sesame seed paste (AKA tahini). It is dense, rife with raisins and nuts, and tastes something like the best oatmeal raisin cookie ever. It is also "Lenten", meaning it contains no dairy, eggs, or oil and is suitable for "fasting" days in the Greek Orthodox church.
Ingredients
- 1 ¼ cups flour shopping list
- 1 cup quick oats shopping list
- 3 ¼ tsp baking powder shopping list
- ¾ tsp salt shopping list
- 1 tsp cinnamon shopping list
- ¾ cup tahini shopping list
- ¾ cup orange juice shopping list
- ½ cup sugar shopping list
- ¾ cup raisins shopping list
- 1/4 cup chopped hazelnuts shopping list
- 2 tbsp pine nuts shopping list
- 1/2 cup honey, warmed until runny shopping list
How to make it
- Preheat oven to 350º. Grease & flour an 8" springform pan.
- Sift together the flour, oats, baking powder, salt, and cinnamon, set aside.
- Beat together tahini and orange juice with electric beaters.
- Add sugar and beat until smooth.
- Add the dry ingredients and mix well with a wooden spoon.
- Stir in the raisins and nuts. This will be very thick.
- Press the dough into the prepared pan, using slightly wet fingers to press the dough into place.
- Bake for 35 minutes.
- Let cool in pan 10 minutes.
- Poke several holes into (but not through) cake, pour warm honey over.
- Let sit 30 minutes, then remove from pan and cool on a wire rack.
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