Pistachio Kunafa Chocolate Cake and Cupcakes

Dessert · Saudi Arabian classic.

Ingredients

• 6 tablespoons White Chocolate
• 1 cup Unsalted Pistachio
• 3 tablespoons Condensed Milk
• 5 tablespoons Milk
• 25 Oreo Cream Biscuits
• 1/2 cup Milk
• 1/2 teaspoon Baking Powder
• 1/2 teaspoon Vinegar
• 1 pinch Salt
• 150g Sevaiiya
• 1 tablespoon Ghee
• 120ml Dark Chocolate
• 4 tablespoons Malai

Method

1. Continue cooking — For Chocolate Cake:Ready all the ingredients.
2. Mix together — Powder the oreo biscuits, pinch salt and mix warm milk as needed and make a cake batter.
3. Mix together — Add in baking powder and vinegar and mix. 2 Grease a loose bottomed tin.
4. Preheat the oven — 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.
5. Continue cooking — Cool on wire rack. 4 For Homemade Pistachio Paste:Ready all the pistachio paste ingredients.
6. Bring to a boil — Slightly melt white chocolate on a double boiler.(else the mixer blade may break) Coarsely powder the pistachio in mixer.
7. Add ingredients — 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
8. Continue cooking — For Kunafa: In a kadhaai take ghee and roast the sevaiiya on slow gas.
9. Stir — Keep stirring until a pleasant roasted aroma releases. Cool it.
10. Mix together — Add in the Homemade pistachio paste.Mix well. 7
11. Continue cooking — Lip smacking Kunafa is ready. Spread a 2 cm layer on the cooled chocolate cake. 8
12. Continue cooking — Melt dark chocolate and strained malai and prepare the chocolate ganache.

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