A Yoghurt, Pistachio and Pomegranate Cake
I found this lovely yoghurt, pistachio and pomegranate cake recipe a little while back that I made, with a few changes here and there to the recipe, and I just loved it. So much so, I thought I’d share it on here, so I can also come back to it as well :)
Yield: 4
Prep + Cook time: about 1 hour
Ingredients:
150 g caser sugar
150 ml olive oil
2 eggs lightly beaten
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
300 g natural yoghurt
300 g plan flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
100 g pistachios unsalted and unshelled
Icing:
225 g icing sugar
100g natural yoghurt
200 g pomegranate seeds
Steps:
Preheat your oven to 160 C, and grease an 8 inch baking pan
Chop up your pistachios into smaller pieces (you could also blend them in a blender or food processor if you want to grind them into fine crumbs
Place the sugar and oil in a large bowl and whisk until smooth, then add in your eggs, vanilla extract, then your yoghurt and mix well.
Then fold in your flour, baking powder and chopped (or ground) pistachios
Pour the mixture into your greased pan and bake it for 45 - 50 minutes or until your skewer (or fork) comes out clean.
Once out of the oven, ;eave your baking pan toto cool for 15 - 30 minutes and then take the cake out of the baking pan to let it completely cool down on a plate or wire rack.
To prepare the icing, mix the icing sugar into a bowl (you could also sift the icing sugar too before doing this but in my case I didn’t as I didn’t have a ton of time, and it came out just fine too :)) and add in your yogurt and mix well until it becomes a paste.
Pour the icing onto your cake, and smooth it out and around the sides (you could use a spatula for this bit) or you could just let it drip around too which I partly did :)
Scatter pomegranate seeds (and if you’d like, roughly chopped pistachios) on top of the cake to decorate
You could also add some pomegranate and chopped pistachios around the platter to decorate as well :)
With love,
Onivie