Hey everyone, it is Jim, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, pistachio layer cake. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Line bottoms with parchment; butter parchment and dust with flour, tapping out excess. Whisk together flour, baking powder, and salt in a medium bowl. Add vanilla, almond and egg, mix until combined. With mixing speed on low, alternate adding dry ingredients and the milk and cream.
Pistachio Layer Cake is one of the most favored of recent trending meals in the world. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions daily. They are nice and they look wonderful. Pistachio Layer Cake is something that I’ve loved my entire life.
To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have pistachio layer cake using 21 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Pistachio Layer Cake:
- Take Cake
- Prepare 1 1/2 cups shelled pistachio
- Prepare 1 1/2 cups cake flour
- Get 1/2 cup AP flour
- Make ready 2/3 tbsp baking powder
- Make ready 2/3 tsp baking soda
- Prepare 2/3 tsp salt
- Make ready 2/3 cup unsalted butter, softened
- Make ready 1 cup + 2 tbsp granulated sugar
- Prepare 2/3 tbsp vanilla extract
- Take 1/2 tsp almond extract
- Prepare 1 egg
- Get 2/3 cup whole milk
- Prepare 1/3 cup sour cream
- Take 2 egg whites + 1/2 tsp cream of tartar
- Take Frosting
- Take 1 cup unsalted butter, softened
- Make ready 1 1/3 tsp vanilla extract
- Prepare 1/4 tsp salt
- Prepare 4 cups powdered sugar
- Get 1 cup cream cheese
Combine vinegar and baking soda in a third bowl. This pistachio layer cake with cream cheese buttercream is really special. The layers are light, moist, and not too sweet, with plenty of pistachio flavor. The presentation with the swirled top and pistachio-coated sides make it a real showpiece.
Instructions to make Pistachio Layer Cake:
- Pregeat oven to 180 degrees Celsius. Grease and line two 9-inches round baking pan.
- Ground 1 1/4 cups of pistachio in a food processor. Ground until fine powder form but be mindful that it doesn’t turn into a paste.
- In a separate mixing bowl, whisk together ground pistachio, flour, baking powder, baking soda and salts.
- In a separate bowl, mix together whole milk and sour cream. Set aside.
- In a separate bowl, cream butter with a hand or stand mixer until smooth, about 2 minutes. Add sugar and beat on high for another 2 minutes. Add vanilla, almond extract and egg. Mix until well combined.
- Alternately add the dry ingredients, and milk & cream over the butter mixture a ending with the dry ingredients. Beat over low until well combined. Set aside.
- In a separate bowl, beat the egg whites and cream of tartar with a hand or stand mixer until stiff peaks form. Using a rubber spatula, gently fold into the cake batter until incorporated.
- Equally divide the batter between the prepared pans. Bake for 35-40 minutes or until the top springs back to touch.
- Remove from oven and allow to cool in the pans for 15 minutes before inverting onto a wire rack to cool completely.
- To make the frosting, beat butter on high until creamy. Add vanilla, salt and powdered sugar until well combined. Add the cream cheese and beat until well combined.
- To assemble the cake, place 1 cake at the bottom and spread about 1/4 of the frosting on top. Add the second cake and frost the top and sides. Add a sprinkle of the remaining 1/4 cup pistachio on top.
- Hack: If you don’t have cake flour, you may use AP flour. For every 1 cup AP flour, remove 2 tbsp and replace with 2 tbsp cornstarch.
- Ready to serve and ENJOY!
The layers are light, moist, and not too sweet, with plenty of pistachio flavor. The presentation with the swirled top and pistachio-coated sides make it a real showpiece. Layers can be made, wrapped well, and frozen up to a month in advance. Whisk in the cake flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. Whisk in the flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt.
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