Vasilopita – Traditional New Year’s Day Cake

Vasilopita is the traditional Greek cake that we make on New Year’s Eve and eat on New Year’s Day, where we put a coin and the finder of this coin is supposed to have good luck that year. This tradition goes a very long way back, I won’t bore you with details!

But I will tell you that it is delicious! And you can make it anytime of the year (like i do) whenever you feel like having a simple cake.

There are a variety of recipes for Vasilopita, but i love the below – the original recipe has eggs, but I substituted them with flaxseed seeds. One of my biggest joys when cooking vegan is realising how easy it is to substitute animal by products, and how delicious the result is!

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Vegan Carrot Cake and frosting

I think that a nice, moist piece of carrot cake was always one of my favourite, most comforting and satisfying sweets. So, I woke up the other day and I was determine to enjoy it once again – so I had to make the vegan version of it. And voila!

I hope you enjoy every piece of it as much as I did!

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