Angelo's Mom Makes Yiaourtopita (Greek Yogurt Dessert Pastry)

This is a really good cake with Greek yogurt and a sweet syrup you put on afterwards. The ingredients:

-3 sticks butter (plus a 4th for buttering the baking pan)
-3 1/2 cups flour
-1 cup ground almonds
-1 teaspoon baking powder
-1 teaspoon baking soda
-6 egg yolks
-6 egg whites with a little salt
-1 cup Greek yogurt (which is strained-don't get unstrained yogurt, it'll be water)
-1 1/2 cups sugar

Ingredients for the syrup:

-2 cups sugar
-1 1/2 cups water
-Half a lemon's juice
-Lemon peel (yellow only, don't cut it deep)

Grind up 1 cup almonds in a blender. Separate six egg yolks into one bowl and the whites of the eggs into another. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.

Use an egg beater to thoroughly mix the three sticks of butter, sugar, and egg yolks in a large bowl. In a separate bowl, mix baking soda, flour, baking powder with a spoon.

Use the egg beater to thoroughly whip the egg whites with a little salt in a large bowl until it's thick and creamy.

Gradually add the flour/baking powder/baking soda mixture in with the butter, sugar, and egg yolks, as well as the ground almonds and Greek yogurt, stirring with a spoon.

Add the whipped egg whites to the butter/flour mixture and mix it together with a spoon.

With the fourth stick of butter, butter a baking pan and pour in the butter/flour mixture and even it out. Then put it in the oven and bake it for 45 minutes at 350 degrees. Check if it's done baking by sticking a knife in the cake and pull it out. If there's still batter sticking to the knife, it's not ready. My mom had to cook it a little longer than 45 minutes to get it cooked thoroughly, but even with a little batter on the knife it was pretty thoroughly baked.

When the yiaourtopita is almost done baking, make the syrup. Put the 2 cups sugar (I would personally cut down on that, as I'm sure it will still be sweet, but my mom likes to put a ton of sugar in) in a pot, 1 1/2 cups water, juice from half a lemon (to prevent it from caramelizing), and shallowly cut lemon peel and boil it for about ten minutes.

Take the yiaourtopita out of the oven and let it cool off for at least 10 minutes or so. Then pour the syrup on and let it absorb for an hour or so and serve. It's really good!

My mom and I also argued some, and she argued with my dad about his medication.

Edited on Sony Vegas Pro

[mofnn]

A really nice recipe and I thank you Mrs. I've looked all over for so many years after I had this cake while visiting Greece. My fiance told me it was a specialty and not found everywhere.
Angelo grow up.

[gtochld]

I love the little tidbits from Angelo's Dad. The cake looks awesome too.

[maxineacton]

It's a miracle that anything turns out in this kitchen with such a pain in he neck. As you Angelo!, !Your mother is beautiful and sweet

[jhlfsc]

I love that at this point you've tortured her so much that she doesn't even trust you to mix cake batter haha

[queenofshalom]

Oh, Mama this is really good I am so glad you showed this recipe I also loved it when I ate it in Greece now I'm can make it at home for my family thank you for blessing me with this recipe oh my God wonderful and very easy

[camiekham]

May god bless you.your son lives you a lot.i can see that.

[SpeechlessEmilia]

"Sucsrive, ser with a friend, click like or favort" <3 I love your mom! Hope she gets well fast!

[elizabeths]

The best part of the video is watching your mom tasting the dessert, she gets so excited, adorable 💙
I wish she were my neighbor
Sagapo

[Amywazwaz]

But it looked like it turned out great!

[scrappypooh]

Your Mom is sweet, funny, smart, patient, a good cook and she loves her family!

[CrazyLazyHobo]

I always share these with my mom. She loves seeing them. I do the exact same shenanigans to her whenever I come home for the weekend and she cooks. Great stuff! Love the other videos too! Thank you.

[alandenniston]

Love the cooking videos, looks like Angelo's mother needs a good rubber spatula to scrape things out of bowls.

[AthensG]

After watching many of Angelo's videos I'm now sure that he isn't disrespectful towards his mother. He is teasing her. I'm Greek, I know.

[josephfajfar]

Angelo, you are so mean to your beautiful mother, but we do enjoy the viedos, have made a few of her recipes, and they came out GREAT, Thank You both!

[davef]

Sounds like a rich Deseret but sounds very very good

[itir]

3:21 Thought this part was gonna turn into a song! lol

Looks great, wish I had a piece right now..!

Funny how it used to be you telling her to explain more, and now she's telling you ''wait a minute, I have to explain this'' ;P heheheh.

[mimimariam]

Be nice to your mother I likes and love the way she doing her cooking remai me my mother. Hopefully you get well soon..😙

[kristinaperic]

Boy if I were so mean to my mom she would have smacked me in the head with a slipper xD kudos to your Greek mom love her

[kathyvlahos]

Awesome cake! I'll be very sad when that mixer calls it quits. Don't want to jinx it!!!

[Amywazwaz]

Angelos mom, do you have a better cake pan? I wonder if the pan she used made it cook slower? Aluminum doesn't cook evenly or distribute the heat well it looks good. Arabs make a similar cake also. But with semolina also. It is called basbusa.