Pistachio Kunafa Chocolate Cake and Cupcakes

Pistachio Kunafa Chocolate Cake and Cupcakes

Area: Saudi Arabian

Category: Dessert

Ingredients

IngredientsMeasure
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

Instruction

  • 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