Cinnamon cake with grape syrup

Name: Cinnamon cake with grape syrup
Cook time: 1 h 15 min
Total time: 1 h 15 min
Yield: 24
Ingredients: 2 Cinnamon sticks; 1 Organic Orange; 7-10 Tbsp Fat and flour; 1⁄4 l virgin olive oil; 100 g Sugar; 250 g Petimezi (Greek grape must syrup; alternatively honey); 350 g Flour; 1 heaped Tsp baking powder; 40 g Walnut kernels; 2 TABLESPOONS Icing sugar

AUTHOR
Antoine Long

DIFFICULTY
very easy

RATING

COOK TIME
75 mins

TOTAL TIME
75 mins

Ingredients

Servings: 24

2 Cinnamon sticks
1 Organic Orange
7-10 Tbsp Fat and flour
1⁄4 l virgin olive oil
100 g Sugar
250 g Petimezi (Greek grape must syrup; alternatively honey)
350 g Flour
1 heaped Tsp baking powder
40 g Walnut kernels
2 TABLESPOONS Icing sugar

Directions

1
1⁄4 l Bring water and cinnamon sticks to the boil in a pot and simmer for about 5 minutes. Remove from the heat and pour through a sieve. Measure 60 ml and let it cool down. In the meantime, wash the orange hot, dab dry and finely grate the peel.
2
Squeeze orange.
3
Grease a springform pan (26 cm Ø) and dust with flour. Preheat the oven (electric cooker: 175°C/circulating air: 150 °C/gas: see manufacturer). Mix oil, sugar, petimezi, cinnamon water, orange peel and orange juice in a bowl with a whisk.
4
Mix flour and baking powder. Gradually stir in with the whisks of the mixer.
5
Put the dough into the springform pan and smooth it down. Bake in a hot oven for about 35 minutes. Let it cool down. Roughly chop the walnuts. Remove the cake from the tin, dust thickly with icing sugar and sprinkle with nuts.