Pistachio Kunafa Chocolate Cake and Cupcakes

Name: Pistachio Kunafa Chocolate Cake and Cupcakes
Prep time: 3 h 23 min
Cook time: 10 min
Total time: 3 h 33 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Saudi Arabian
Ingredients: ⅓ cup + 2 tsp white chocolate; 1 cup unsalted pistachios; 3 tbsp condensed milk; ¼ cup + 1 tbsp milk; 25 oreo cream biscuits; ½ cup milk; ½ tsp baking powder; ½ tsp vinegar; 1 pinch salt; 5 oz sevaiiya; 1 tbsp ghee; ½ cup dark chocolate; ¼ cup malai

A weekend Saudi Arabian dessert. Ready in about 3 hours 33 minutes. Difficulty: more effort.

3 hr 23 minPrep (about)
10 minCook (about)
3 hr 33 minTotal time
4Servings
More effortDifficulty

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Ingredients

How many people?

− 4 people +

Recipe makes 4

Fresh & other

⅓ cup + 2 tsp white chocolate
1 cup unsalted pistachios
3 tbsp condensed milk
¼ cup + 1 tbsp milk
25 oreo cream biscuits
½ cup milk
½ tsp baking powder
5 oz sevaiiya
1 tbsp ghee
½ cup dark chocolate
¼ cup malai

Sauces & oils

½ tsp vinegar

Spices & seasonings (1): salt

1 pinch salt

How to make it

Steps in our own plain words.

For Chocolate Cake:Ready all the ingredients.
Powder the oreo biscuits, pinch salt.
Mix warm milk if needed and make a cake batter.
Add in baking powder and vinegar.
Mix.
Grease a loose bottomed tin.
Pour a ½ inch thick layer of your batter.
Bake in a heat the oven @325°F for 7-8 minutes until the knife comes out clean.
Cool on wire rack.
For Homemade Pistachio Paste:Ready all your pistachio paste ingredients.
A bit melt white chocolate on a double boiler.
Coarsely powder the pistachio in mixer.
Add in condensed milk.
Add in a bit warmed and a bit melted white chocolate plus milk as required plus crush to a smooth paste.
For Kunafa: In a kadhaai take ghee.
Roast the sevaiiya on slow gas.
Keep stirring till a pleasant roasted aroma releases, cool it.
Add in the Homemade pistachio paste.Mix fully.
Lip smacking Kunafa is ready.
Spread a ¾ inch layer on your cooled chocolate cake.
Melt dark chocolate plus strained malai and prepare the chocolate ganache.
Cool.
Pour on the Kunafa layer.
Garnish Pistachio Kunafa Chocolate Cake using chopped pistachio and silver balls.
Keep in fridge for 2-3 hours.
Unmould the Kunafa Cake.
Cut.
Cross sectional view of your Pistachio Kunafa Chocolate Cake.