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Step-by-Step Guide to Prepare Award-winning Pistachio Layer Cake

 ·  ☕ 4 min read  ·  ✍️ Minerva Rhodes
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Pistachio Layer Cake

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Pistachio Layer Cake is one of the most popular of current trending meals in the world. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions daily. Pistachio Layer Cake is something that I have loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.

To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook pistachio layer cake using 21 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Pistachio Layer Cake:
  1. Take Cake
  2. Get 1 1/2 cups shelled pistachio
  3. Get 1 1/2 cups cake flour
  4. Take 1/2 cup AP flour
  5. Take 2/3 tbsp baking powder
  6. Take 2/3 tsp baking soda
  7. Make ready 2/3 tsp salt
  8. Make ready 2/3 cup unsalted butter, softened
  9. Take 1 cup + 2 tbsp granulated sugar
  10. Prepare 2/3 tbsp vanilla extract
  11. Get 1/2 tsp almond extract
  12. Take 1 egg
  13. Take 2/3 cup whole milk
  14. Take 1/3 cup sour cream
  15. Get 2 egg whites + 1/2 tsp cream of tartar
  16. Get Frosting
  17. Get 1 cup unsalted butter, softened
  18. Prepare 1 1/3 tsp vanilla extract
  19. Take 1/4 tsp salt
  20. Get 4 cups powdered sugar
  21. Get 1 cup cream cheese

How to Make Pistachio Layer Cake. Then mix in one box of Duncan Hines white cake mix. 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.

Instructions to make Pistachio Layer Cake:
  1. Pregeat oven to 180 degrees Celsius. Grease and line two 9-inches round baking pan.
  2. 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.
  3. In a separate mixing bowl, whisk together ground pistachio, flour, baking powder, baking soda and salts.
  4. In a separate bowl, mix together whole milk and sour cream. Set aside.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. Equally divide the batter between the prepared pans. Bake for 35-40 minutes or until the top springs back to touch.
  9. Remove from oven and allow to cool in the pans for 15 minutes before inverting onto a wire rack to cool completely.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. 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.

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. Layers can be made, wrapped well, and frozen up to a month in advance. Whisk in the flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt.

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