Pistachio Kunafa Chocolate Cake and Cupcakes
Dessert
Saudi Arabian
Learn how to prepare this delicious recipe with a step-by-step video tutorial.
Ingredients
- - White Chocolate : 6 tablespoons
- - Unsalted Pistachio : 1 cup
- - Condensed Milk : 3 tablespoons
- - Milk : 5 tablespoons
- - Oreo Cream Biscuits : 25
- - Milk : 1/2 cup
- - Baking Powder : 1/2 teaspoon
- - Vinegar : 1/2 teaspoon
- - Salt : 1 pinch
- - Sevaiiya : 150g
- - Ghee : 1 tablespoon
- - Dark Chocolate : 120ml
- - Malai : 4 tablespoons
Instructions
1 - 1
For Chocolate Cake:Ready all the ingredients.
2 - Powder the oreo biscuits, pinch salt and mix warm milk as needed and make a cake batter.
3 - Add in baking powder and vinegar and mix.
4 - 2
Grease a loose bottomed tin.
5 - Pour a 1cm thick layer of the batter.
6 - 3
Bake in a preheated oven @160°C for 7-8 minutes or until the knife comes out clean.
8 - 4
For Homemade Pistachio Paste:Ready all the pistachio paste ingredients.
9 - Slightly melt white chocolate on a double boiler.
10 - (else the mixer blade may break) Coarsely powder the pistachio in mixer.
11 - Add in condensed milk.
12 - 5
Add in slightly warmed and slightly melted white chocolate and milk as required and crush to a smooth paste.
13 - (Green food colour can be add.
15 - )
6
For Kunafa: In a kadhaai take ghee and roast the sevaiiya on slow gas.
16 - Keep stirring until a pleasant roasted aroma releases.
18 - Add in the Homemade pistachio paste.
20 - 7
Lip smacking Kunafa is ready.
21 - Spread a 2 cm layer on the cooled chocolate cake.
22 - 8
Melt dark chocolate and strained malai and prepare the chocolate ganache.
23 - Cool and pour on the Kunafa layer.
24 - 9
Garnish Pistachio Kunafa Chocolate Cake with chopped pistachio and silver balls.
25 - Keep in fridge for 2-3 hours.
26 - Then unmould the Kunafa Cake.
27 - 10
I also prepared Kunafa cupcakes.
29 - The cake looked so pretty that we could either save it or have it!! ☺
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Cross sectional view of the Pistachio Kunafa Chocolate Cake.
30 - 12
Enjoy with a new sweet delicacy this festive season with family and friends.
