Dessert • Saudi Arabian
Pistachio Kunafa Chocolate Cake and Cupcakes

Ingredients
- White Chocolate6 tablespoons
- Unsalted Pistachio1 cup
- Condensed Milk3 tablespoons
- Milk5 tablespoons
- Oreo Cream Biscuits25
- Milk1/2 cup
- Baking Powder1/2 teaspoon
- Vinegar1/2 teaspoon
- Salt1 pinch
- Sevaiiya150g
- Ghee1 tablespoon
- Dark Chocolate120ml
- Malai4 tablespoons
Steps
Prepare
- 🥄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.
Steps
- 🔥2
- 🧂Grease a loose bottomed tin.
- 🍳Pour a 1cm thick layer of the batter.
- 3
Prepare
- 🧂Bake in a preheated oven @160°C for 7-8 minutes or until the knife comes out clean.
Steps
- 🍳Cool on wire rack.
- 4
- 🍽️For Homemade Pistachio Paste:Ready all the pistachio paste ingredients.
Prepare
- Slightly melt white chocolate on a double boiler.(else the mixer blade may break) Coarsely powder the pistachio in mixer.
Steps
- 🍽️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
Cook
- 🌿For Kunafa: In a kadhaai take ghee and roast the sevaiiya on slow gas.
- ✨Keep stirring until a pleasant roasted aroma releases.
Steps
- ✨Cool it.
Prepare
- 🥄Add in the Homemade pistachio paste.Mix well.
Steps
- 🔥7
- 🧂Lip smacking Kunafa is ready.
- 🍳Spread a 2 cm layer on the cooled chocolate cake.
- 8
Prepare
- 🧂Melt dark chocolate and strained malai and prepare the chocolate ganache.
Steps
- 🍳Cool and pour on the Kunafa layer.
- 9
Prepare
- Garnish Pistachio Kunafa Chocolate Cake with chopped pistachio and silver balls.
Steps
- 🍽️Keep in fridge for 2-3 hours.
- 🌿Then unmould the Kunafa Cake.
- ✨10
Prepare
- 🌿I also prepared Kunafa cupcakes.
- ✨Cut and enjoy.
Steps
- ✨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
Prepare
- 🥄Enjoy with a new sweet delicacy this festive season with family and friends.
Source: Original recipe