July 31, 2015
baking adventures•the food series•Uncategorized
Baking Adventures: Chocolate & Pistachio cake
Cake. Caaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaake.
Pistachio and chocolate cake, to be precise. Lovely addition to our recipe book, even if a large quantity of pistachios were brutally crushed in the making of this cake. And by crushed, I mean positively blitzed. To smithereens.
This is a sort-of-not-quite-really homage to the new series of The Great British Bake Off (who’s excited???), because if that’s not the best excuse to make cake, then I don’t know what it.
Other than, for the heck of it. (Also birthdays are a pretty good cause.)
I’ve rambled on enough, you’re obviously here for a recipe, so let’s just get right to it.
The recipe that we used was one for Pistachio & milk chocolate squares – a bbcgoodfoodshow.com epic. If you like Pistachios and milk chocolate. We swapped the need for a square tin to make the more traditional circular cake, adding a smidge of baking powder to help the rise.
ingredients:
140g shelled pistachios
200g milk chocolate – broken into chunks
200g golden caster sugar
200g very soft butter
3 eggs
200g self-raising flour
100ml milk
150ml soured cream
1/2 teaspoon of baking powder
method:
– heat your oven to 180c / 160c for fans / gas mark 4
– blitz 125g of the pistachios with 75g of chocolate and roughly half the sugar until they’re very finely chopped in a food processor
– in a bowl, add remaining sugar, butter, eggs, flour and milk
– if you wish, add a dash of salt
– tip the finely chopped pistachio/chocolate mix into this bowl and beat together
– pour into your tin (we split the mixture equally between two tins, as it makes cake building easier!)
– bake for 35-45 minutes, until a skewer poked in comes out clean
– leave to cool
icing&filling:
– melt the remaining milk chocolate (slowly! no one likes that burned chocolate smell)
– stir in the cream
– cool until spreadable
– if you have one cake, cut that in half, if you have two, pick which will be the base and which will be the top
– spread some icing over the base, and press the top sponge back on
– the remaining icing goes over the top
– chop the remaining pistachios roughly and scatter them over the cake
– you could also grate a little chocolate over the top too
And that’s it! A pretty easy recipe, combining two awesome ingredients, that you could definitely swap out if you don’t like pistachios. I definitely would suggest the food processor vs the traditional method of popping things in a plastic bag and whacking it with a rolling pin/heavy object. Seriously therapeutic, but doesn’t get the same kind of fine dicing.
What’s your favourite cake flavour?
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That looks so delicious! I like every kind of cake:)Stay fabulous xhttp://daristo-chic.blogspot.com/?m=1
It's a pretty spiffy cake. And allll cake is the best cake ;)xo
That looks so jummy! Thx for sharing!http://theguidetojoy.blogspot.se/
No problem 🙂 xo
This looks gorgeous! I love pistachios too so I definitely want to give it a go! :)sophie-said.blogspot.co.uk
Let me know how it works out for you!! :Dxo
Ohh I adore pistachios, so this is a must for me!Annabel ♥Mascara & Maltesers
They're sooooooo goooooooooood aren't they :DD xo
Ohh never tried that combo before but looks delicious! I like white chocolate and raspberry cakes but pretty much any cake gets a thumbs up from me. I cannot wait for GBBO to start!!!Emma xxwww.alittlefreckle.blogspot.co.uk
oH GOSH white chocolate and raspberry that is my next cake to make YES. I'm so so so excited for GBBO it's getting ridiculous!xo
Oh wow, such a different combo but I bet it's delicious! I'm actually gunna try and watch GBBO this year and it starts on my birthday! Woop 🙂 xxwww.ohhellomango.co.uk
ooO best birthday present! Aha it's a great series, I love that it unites the UK something fierce. let me know how it goes!! 😀 xo
Oh my days, this sounds DELICIOUS. I looooooove cake!Tara x
Looks delicious I'll have to try this!!!! It's seems so simple I hope my turns out good!By the way I write a blog too! http://achristiansisterperspective.blogspot.comI'd love it if you checked us out and added us to your circles if you like! Thanks a million for your support!
This looks delicious! I definitely need to try and give this a go! Amzy In Wonderland x
Oh my words—this looks absolutely amazing <3 <3 <3 Add pistachios to anything and it becomes instantly so much better~xxxShe Will Be
This cake looks so delicious! I'm definitely going to have to try this!- Lily xxwww.lilyroserichards.blogspot.co.uk