Cardamom and Pistachio Cake recipe

Cardamom and Pistachio Cake recipe

Ingredients

3 cups all-purpose flour 300g
1 ½ tablespoons cornstarch
½ tspn salt
2 ½ teaspoons baking powder
1 cup or 100g unsalted chopped pistachio
1½ teaspoon fresh ground cardamom about 20 pods
3 eggs
1 cup milk
1 sour cream
¾ cup or 150g butter
1 ½ cup or 300g sugar
2 tablespoons breadcrumbs for coating the Bundt cake
For Rose water cream cheese frosting:
1 pack or 200g Philadelphia cream cheese
5 tablespoons rose water
5 tablespoons milk
½ cup or 62 gram powder sugar
3 tablespoons natural unsalted pistachios

Cooking Instructions

Preheat oven to 180°C /350 °F /Gas mark 4.
Butter a 12 cup bundt pan and coat with fine dry breadcrumbs. Set aside.

On a chopping board, gently ponder the cardamom seeds till split open. Using your hands, remove and discard cardamom’s green shells.

In the mortar, crush the cardamom seeds till powdery. Or use a small coffee grinder to grind the seeds.

In the food processor, blitz the pistachios until they are finely grounded.

The Cake:
In a large bowl, sift the flour, salt, cornstarch and baking powder three times.Add the pistachios and cardamom..

In the bowl of the stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment beat the sugar and butter until light and fluffy. About 5 to 8 minutes.

Add the eggs one at a time. Mix just until combined. Then add the sour cream. Mix for three to four minutes or till combined.

Beginning and ending with dry ingredients, alternate between the liquid and dry ingredients.

Add 1/3 of the dry ingredients, then ½ the milk, then 1/3 of the dry ingredients, then ½ the milk and finally the last 1/3 of dry ingredients.

Pour batter into prepared bundt pan, spreading evenly.
Bake in the third rack of the oven, for about 50 minutes or until a skewer inserted in the middle of the cake comes out clean.

Once done, allow the bundt cake to cool on a wire rack for 20 minutes before inverting it.

Let the cake cool completely before decorating and frosting.

Frosting & Assembly:
Sift the icing sugar.Add all the ingredients to the bowl of the mixer and mix until combined.Mix all the ingredients in the bowl of the

Spread the frosting over the cakes. Sprinkle with pistachios & drizzle with chocolate then let the cake cool for one hour hours before serving.