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Pistachio Kunafa Chocolate Cake and Cupcakes
Saudi Arabian Dessert recipe supplied by TheMealDB.
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Video
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vINcKAS7Ig8
Ingredients
- 6 tablespoons White Chocolate
- 1 cup Unsalted Pistachio
- 3 tablespoons Condensed Milk
- 5 tablespoons Milk
- 25 Oreo Cream Biscuits
- 1/2 cup Milk
- 1/2 teaspoon Baking Powder
- 1/2 teaspoon Vinegar
- 1 pinch Salt
- 150g Sevaiiya
- 1 tablespoon Ghee
- 120ml Dark Chocolate
- 4 tablespoons Malai
Directions
- 1 For Chocolate Cake:Ready all the ingredients. Powder the oreo biscuits, pinch salt and mix warm milk as needed and make a cake batter. Add in baking powder and vinegar and mix. 2 Grease a loose bottomed tin. Pour a 1cm thick layer of the batter. 3 Bake in a preheated oven @160°C for 7-8 minutes or until the knife comes out clean. Cool on wire rack. 4 For Homemade Pistachio Paste:Ready all the pistachio paste ingredients. Slightly melt white chocolate on a double boiler.(else the mixer blade may break) Coarsely powder the pistachio in mixer. Add in condensed milk. 5 Add in slightly warmed and slightly melted white chocolate and milk as required and crush to a smooth paste.(Green food colour can be add. I haven't.) 6
- For Kunafa: In a kadhaai take ghee and roast the sevaiiya on slow gas. Keep stirring until a pleasant roasted aroma releases. Cool it. Add in the Homemade pistachio paste.Mix well. 7 Lip smacking Kunafa is ready. Spread a 2 cm layer on the cooled chocolate cake. 8 Melt dark chocolate and strained malai and prepare the chocolate ganache. Cool and pour on the Kunafa layer. 9 Garnish Pistachio Kunafa Chocolate Cake with chopped pistachio and silver balls. Keep in fridge for 2-3 hours. Then unmould the Kunafa Cake. 10 I also prepared Kunafa cupcakes. Cut and enjoy. The cake looked so pretty that we could either save it or have it!! ☺ 11 Cross sectional view of the Pistachio Kunafa Chocolate Cake. 12 Enjoy with a new sweet delicacy this festive season with family and friends.