Karidopeta (Greek Walnut Cake)

SYRUP:
3 cups water
2 cups sugar
1/4 cup rum or 1 tsp. extract
1 slice lemon
1/2 tsp. cinnamon
BATTER:
1/2 lb. butter or margarine, softened
1 cup sugar
6 eggs
1 cup flour
1 cup farina
2 heaping tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. cinnamon
1 tsp. grated orange peel
1 cup chopped walnuts

Make syrup first by combining syrup ingredients in a saucepan. Boil 10 minutes. Stir every few minutes. Set aside to cool.

Cream butter and sugar until light, add eggs, one at a time, beating constantly.

Add flour, farina, baking powder, cinnamon, and orange peel and beat well. Then add walnuts.

Bake in 9x13 inch buttered pan at 350 for 30 minutes.

Pour cooled syrup over cake while cake is hot.

Allow to cool, cut into diamond shapes.

Source: Michael Walton, 1996