Pistachio Kunafa Chocolate Cake and Cupcakes

Pistachio Kunafa Chocolate Cake and Cupcakes

DessertSaudi Arabian
Prep: 10 mins
Total: 1 hr 10 mins

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

Instructions

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.