Pistachio cake 1
Ingredients: 6 eggs 250 gr. of sugar, 300 gr. of minced pistachio, 100 gr. of flour, 150 gr. of melted butter, 1 sachet of yeast. Proceeding: heat the oven at 150° and maintain this temperature for all the time of cooking. Whip the eggs and the sugar; add the minced pistachio, the cold and melted butter, the flour and the yeast. Pour the compound in a tin well buttered and sprinkled with flour, pass it quickly in the hot oven for about 45 minutes. Once the cooking is done, leave the cake in the off oven for an additional 5 minutes. When completely cold, sprinkle the sweet with icing sugar. Pistachio cake 2
Ingredients for 4 persons: 250 gr. of peeled and finely minced pistachios, If you prefer more aroma and less color in the cake, leave the pistachio unpeeled, 200 gr. of sugar, 3 eggs, 3 small spoonfuls of flour. Mix the minced pistachios with the egg yolk and the sugar, add then the flour and the albumens beaten to snow. Pour the compound in a buttered tin and cook in oven at moderate heat for about a hour. Sprinkle the cooled sweet with icing sugar. Rolled Pistachio cake
Ingredients: 12 eggs, half a liter of cream, half a glass of liqueur type grand-marnier, a cup of pistachios, four cups of flour, four small spoonfuls of powdered yeast, for cups of caster sugar, a knob of butter, a pinch of salt, a cup of icing sugar. Spread some grease paper on the table and butter it. Beat the eggs with the caster sugar and the salt until they become soft. Add, little by little, the flour, sifted together wit the yeast. Pour the cream so obtained on the sheet of grease paper, spread it to make it about a finger high in a way to form a square. Put it in oven at a moderate heat, for nearly a quarter of a hour till the paste shall be cooked. Sprinkle with icing sugar a piece of fine cloth, remove the grease paper and place the sweet on the cloth, roll it with it, close it and make it cool down completely. Whip the cream and mix to it the remaining icing sugar little by little, add at the end, the grand marnier and the minced pistachios. Spread again the sweet, covering it with the obtained cream and roll it again on itself without the cloth. Place it on the serving dish and put it in the refrigerator until you are ready to serve. |