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Nutrition: per serving

  • kcal342
  • fat22g
  • saturates11g
  • carbs32g
  • sugars22g
  • fibre1g
  • protein6g
  • salt0.35g
    low
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Method

  • step 1

    Heat oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4. Line a 20cm square cake tin with baking parchment. Whizz 125g of the pistachios, 75g of the chocolate and about half the sugar in a food processor until very finely chopped. Tip into a bowl with remaining sugar, butter, eggs, flour and milk, plus a pinch of salt, and beat. Scrape into the tin and bake for 35-45 mins until a skewer poked in comes out clean. Cool.

  • step 2

    Melt the remaining milk chocolate, stir in the soured cream and cool until spreadable. Trim the edges off the cake, then split in half. Spread a little icing over the base, sandwich the top of sponge back on. Spread remaining icing over the top, roughly chop the remaining pistachios and scatter them over. Cut into 16 squares to serve.

Recipe from Good Food magazine, April 2011

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A star rating of 4.5 out of 5.39 ratings

sonydschx200

Simple, yet delicious, personally i added a bit of rum, vanilla and nutmeg to the cream, and the final result was fantastic

dbbake

I’m usually quite successful with baking cakes but I’m not sure what, if anything, went wrong with this one. The mixing all went to plan, baked 45mins in fan oven. It didn’t rise as as much as shown In the picture. I was still able to cut it in half and sandwich together with the icing. Then iced…

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emmalesliex

A star rating of 5 out of 5.

Amazing recipe, definitely tastes best if eaten the day after. Can also use a different chocolate spread recipe for the topping but this one is very easy to do.

bezann1

A star rating of 5 out of 5.

Gorgeous cake. Even nicer next day.

bubblehbm

A favourite I make it all the time! The frosting is amazing and the cake is unusual but delicious :)

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