Pistachio Kunafa Chocolate Cake and Cupcakes
Ingredients
| Ingredients | Measure |
| 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 |
Instruction
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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
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Grease a loose bottomed tin
- Pour a 1cm thick layer of the batter
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Bake in a preheated oven @160°C for 7-8 minutes or until the knife comes out clean
- Cool on wire rack
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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
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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
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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
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Lip smacking Kunafa is ready
- Spread a 2 cm layer on the cooled chocolate cake
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Melt dark chocolate and strained malai and prepare the chocolate ganache
- Cool and pour on the Kunafa layer
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Garnish Pistachio Kunafa Chocolate Cake with chopped pistachio and silver balls
- Keep in fridge for 2-3 hours
- Then unmould the Kunafa Cake
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I also prepared Kunafa cupcakes
- Cut and enjoy
- 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
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Enjoy with a new sweet delicacy this festive season with family and friends