Blogmas Day 6: Time to Bake: Pistachio Cake

Hey everyone so if you didn't know i'm going to be starting to do the odd baking post to mix things up a bit and today I'm sharing with you my Pistachio Cake recipe. I love pistachio's in general and I love cake so what a great combo!

Ingredients for the cake:

220g unsalted butter

220g caster sugar

4 eggs

250g self raising flour

1 tsp baking powder

100ml milk

50g chopped pistachios 

50 white chocolate buttons

Ingredients for the icing:

150g White chocolate

150g unsalted butter

150g icing sugar

2 drops of Vanilla extract

handful of pistachios 

Method for the cake:

1. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees
2. Butter and line two 8 inch cake tins
3. Cream together the butter and sugar until smooth
4. Add the eggs gradually 
5. Add flour and baking powder
6. Whisk for 1 minute until light and creamy
7. Fold in the pistachios and white chocolate
8. Divide the mixture between the two cake tins
9. Bake for 30 minutes or until a skewer comes out clean
10. Leave to cool on a wire rack

Method for the icing:

1. Melt the chocolate
2. Cream together the butter and icing sugar until smooth
3. Add the chocolate and vanilla- mix well
4. Spread half of the buttercream on one cake then place the 2nd cake on top then spread the rest of the icing on top 
5. Sprinkle a handful of pistachio over the icing and any leftover chocolate buttons

And there you have it my Pistachio Cake Recipe, let me know if you try this recipe I would love to see your versions.

Thank you for reading!

Love

Hannah

OXO