Suprise Marriage

I love pistachio! The buttery, salty taste just linger in yuor mouth and you just can't stop eating them once you start. The only downside being i'll almost always end up with sore finger tips or broken nails, because some of the shells can be too stubborn to cracks. God knows how sore my fingers are for making this cake, as i'm not prepared to pay for the triple price of the "nude" one! heheh!
This recipe is actually adapted from Nigella Lawson How to be a domestic Goddess.
It was a suprise that chocolate and pistachio make such a good combination, the colour and the taste of this cake is devine, nutty, chocolaty, pitachy...you just have to try it. You can either make it into a marble cake, or 2 layer cake, as i did. But somehow, my chocolate layers didn't stick to it's layer and mix with the green pistachio layer, oh well, it doesn't bother me as it looks nice and taste great!



Chocolate Pistachio Cake

Chocolate Batter

135g AP flour
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
75g butter, soften
125g sugar
2 eggs, lightly beaten
3/4 cup natural yoghurt
1tsp vanilla extracts
2 tbs cocoa powder
1 cup chocolate chips
Oven preheated to 180 degree celcius

1. Beat butter and sugar until light and fluffy
2. Beat in eggs, one at a time
3. Add in yoghurt and vanilla, continue to cream the mixture until combine
4. sift flour, baking powder, baking soda and cocoa over the butter mixture, fold the dry ingrediant over the butter mixture until combine.
5. pour chocolate batter in a 25cm spring foam pan, scatter chocolate chip on top, and set aside while making the pistachio batter.

Pistachio Batter

135g AP flour

1 tsp baking powder

1 tsp baking soda

75g butter, soften

125g sugar

2 eggs

3/4 cup natural yoghurt

1 tsp vanilla extracts

1/3 cup shelled pistachio, finely chopped

1. Beat butter and sugar until light and fluffy
2. Beat in eggs, one at a time
3. Beat in the natural yoghurt and vanilla extracts
4. sift flour, baking powder and baking soda over the butter mixture, gently fold until well combine.
5. Fold in the chopped pistachio. Enjoy the green colour of the batter!!
6. Pour the pistachio batter on top of the chocolate mixture.

Bake in preheated oven 180 degree celcius for 50mins, or until cooked.

With such a devine taste of this cake, who can stop at just one piece?