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Pistachio Kunafa Chocolate Cake and Cupcakes

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. 🥄1
  2. 🔥For Chocolate Cake:Ready all the ingredients.
  3. 🧂Powder the oreo biscuits, pinch salt and mix warm milk as needed and make a cake batter.
  4. 🍳Add in baking powder and vinegar and mix.

Steps

  1. 🔥2
  2. 🧂Grease a loose bottomed tin.
  3. 🍳Pour a 1cm thick layer of the batter.
  4. 🫇3

Prepare

  1. 🧂Bake in a preheated oven @160°C for 7-8 minutes or until the knife comes out clean.

Steps

  1. 🍳Cool on wire rack.
  2. 🫇4
  3. 🍽️For Homemade Pistachio Paste:Ready all the pistachio paste ingredients.

Prepare

  1. 🫇Slightly melt white chocolate on a double boiler.(else the mixer blade may break) Coarsely powder the pistachio in mixer.

Steps

  1. 🍽️Add in condensed milk.
  2. 🌿5
  3. 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.
  4. 🥄I haven't.)
  5. 🔥6

Cook

  1. 🌿For Kunafa: In a kadhaai take ghee and roast the sevaiiya on slow gas.
  2. Keep stirring until a pleasant roasted aroma releases.

Steps

  1. Cool it.

Prepare

  1. 🥄Add in the Homemade pistachio paste.Mix well.

Steps

  1. 🔥7
  2. 🧂Lip smacking Kunafa is ready.
  3. 🍳Spread a 2 cm layer on the cooled chocolate cake.
  4. 🫇8

Prepare

  1. 🧂Melt dark chocolate and strained malai and prepare the chocolate ganache.

Steps

  1. 🍳Cool and pour on the Kunafa layer.
  2. 🫇9

Prepare

  1. 🫇Garnish Pistachio Kunafa Chocolate Cake with chopped pistachio and silver balls.

Steps

  1. 🍽️Keep in fridge for 2-3 hours.
  2. 🌿Then unmould the Kunafa Cake.
  3. 10

Prepare

  1. 🌿I also prepared Kunafa cupcakes.
  2. Cut and enjoy.

Steps

  1. The cake looked so pretty that we could either save it or have it!!
  2. 🥄
  3. 🔥11
  4. 🧂Cross sectional view of the Pistachio Kunafa Chocolate Cake.
  5. 🍳12

Prepare

  1. 🥄Enjoy with a new sweet delicacy this festive season with family and friends.

Source: Original recipe

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