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Pistachio Cake

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Preparation time
0min
Total time
0min
Portion
8 slice(s)
Level
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  • TM 31
published: 2012/10/12
changed: 2016/08/12
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Ingredients

Syrup

  • 330 g sugar
  • 370 g water
  • 1 tbsp honey
  • 1 cinnamon stick
  • 1 tsp Whole Fennel seeds, optional
  • 1 orange, zest only

Cake

  • 280 g unsalted pistachio nuts, shelled
  • 170 g sugar
  • 1 orange, zest only
  • 190 g Butter, cubed
  • 3 eggs
  • 60 g full cream milk
  • 1 tbsp white vinegar
  • 200 g syrup, cooled
  • 220 g self-raising flour
  • 120 g plain flour
  • 1 tsp baking powder
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Recipe's preparation

    Syrup

  1. Place all syrup ingredients into TM bowl and cook 9 min / 100C / speed 2.  Allow to cool completely and then strain through a fine-meshed sieve and set aside until required.

    2. Cake

  2. Preheat oven to 180C. Line a 23cm diameter spring form tin with baking paper and set aside.

  3. Set aside 2 tbsp pistachio nuts for decoration. Place remaining pistachios into mixing bowl and chop 7 sec / speed 5. Press into prepared tin.

  4. Place sugar and zest into a mixing bowl and mill 20 sec / speed 9.

  5. Add butter and eggs and mix 30 sec / speed 5. With blades still rotating at speed 5, add milk and vinegar through hole in mixing bowl lid.

  6. Add 200g of the syrup and mix 10 sec / speed 5.

  7. Add flours and baking powder and pulse 4 times / 1 sec / Closed lid"Closed lid" / Turbo. Scrape down sides of bowl and pulse once more if necessary.

  8. Pour cake mixture over pistachio base in tin and bake approx. 45 - 55 minutes or until skewer comes out clean.

  9. Once cooked, turn out upside-down onto serving plate, so pistachios are on top. Scatter with reserved pistachio nuts.  To set nuts in place, pour over remaining syrup to taste.

Tip

This recipe was contributed by our WA Group Leader, Helen Vogiatzakis.

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    TM 31

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