Pistachio Nut Cake
- about 1/2 cup of clean pistachio nuts;
- about 1/2 cup of clean almonds or hazelnuts;
- 4 eggs;
- 100g sugar;
- 150g melted butter;
- 1 cup of milk;
- 50g icing sugar;
- 2 cups of all-purpose flour;
- 1 spoonful of baking powder
Clean the pistachio nuts removing their hardest "shell"
Dives the
nuts, for a few seconds, in boiling water to remove that reddish skin, which is
around them.
Repeat the same procedure with the almonds or hazelnuts.
Then grind
them with a grinder or food processor, reducing the nuts in a kind of wet
flour. Reserve it.
In a bowl,
mix the eggs with sugar and icing sugar, until getting a whitish mixture.
After that, add to the mixture the melted butter, pistachio/almonds or hazelnuts wet
flour, and milk, mixing them very well.
Finally,
add to the mixture all-purpose flour and baking powder.
Then put the mixture in a baking-pan and bake it for about 25-30 minutes
at 180 degrees or until pushing
a toothpick into the cake and it comes out clean it's cooked.
Perfect to breakfast and brunch!!!