Pistachio Kunafa Chocolate Cake and Cupcakes
This Saudi Arabian dessert builds white chocolate, oreo cream biscuits and sevaiiya into a hearty meal you can have ready in about 95 minutes. Scroll down for the ingredient checklist, a serving scaler and unit converter, and the method broken into 12 steps.
You'll mainly reach for oven and saucepan. At medium difficulty across 12 steps, it's manageable with a little attention.
What you'll need
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Diet: not verified. We could not confirm sevaiiya, malai from the ingredient list, so we make no dietary claim for this recipe.
Contains: Gluten Dairy Tree nuts
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How to make it
- For Chocolate Cake:Ready all the ingredients. Powder the oreo biscuits, pinch salt and mix warm milk as needed and make a cake batter. Add in baking powder and vinegar and mix.
- Grease a loose bottomed tin. Pour a 1cm thick layer of the batter.
- Bake in a preheated oven @160°C for 7-8 minutes or until the knife comes out clean. Cool on wire rack.
- For Homemade Pistachio Paste:Ready all the pistachio paste ingredients. Slightly melt white chocolate on a double boiler.(else the mixer blade may break) Coarsely powder the pistachio in mixer. Add in condensed milk.
- Add in slightly warmed and slightly melted white chocolate and milk as required and crush to a smooth paste.(Green food colour can be add. I haven't.)
- For Kunafa: In a kadhaai take ghee and roast the sevaiiya on slow gas. Keep stirring until a pleasant roasted aroma releases. Cool it. Add in the Homemade pistachio paste.Mix well.
- Lip smacking Kunafa is ready. Spread a 2 cm layer on the cooled chocolate cake.
- Melt dark chocolate and strained malai and prepare the chocolate ganache. Cool and pour on the Kunafa layer.
- Garnish Pistachio Kunafa Chocolate Cake with chopped pistachio and silver balls. Keep in fridge for 2-3 hours. Then unmould the Kunafa Cake.
- I also prepared Kunafa cupcakes. Cut and enjoy. The cake looked so pretty that we could either save it or have it!! ☺
- Cross sectional view of the Pistachio Kunafa Chocolate Cake.
- Enjoy with a new sweet delicacy this festive season with family and friends.
You'll use: Oven · Saucepan · Mixer
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Ingredient substitutions
- Milk
- any unsweetened plant milk · ½ cup evaporated milk + ½ cup water
What to serve with Pistachio Kunafa Chocolate Cake and Cupcakes
- Shakshouka Miscellaneous
- Shawarma chuck roast wrap Beef
- Chicken Shawarma with homemade garlic herb yoghurt sauce Chicken
- Shakshuka Feta Cheese Miscellaneous
Tips & common questions
How long does Pistachio Kunafa Chocolate Cake and Cupcakes take to make?
About 95 minutes from start to finish — an estimate based on the 12 steps and 13 ingredients. Times vary with your kitchen and how much prep you do ahead.
What can I use instead of milk?
Try any unsweetened plant milk. See the substitutions section above for more swaps.
Can I scale this recipe up or down?
Yes — use the servings control above the ingredients and every quantity rescales automatically (fractions included). Cooking times stay roughly the same; very large batches may need a little longer.
Is Pistachio Kunafa Chocolate Cake and Cupcakes suitable for my diet?
We make no dietary claim for this recipe: at least one ingredient could not be resolved to a definite plant or animal source, so labelling it either way would be a guess. The full ingredient list is above.
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