Pistachio and Black Lime Cake Recipe
Ingredients for Pistacio and Black Lime Cake
- 100g pistachios, chopped
- 200g golden caster sugar
- 150g butter, softened, plus extra for the tin
- 125g soured cream
- 3 eggs, medium
- 200g plain flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- 1/2 to 1 tablespoon of black lime powder (depending on taste)
- 4 limes juiced
- 200 g icing sugar
- 2 tbsp pistachios, thinly sliced
Method
- Heat the oven to 180 C. Butter and line a 20 cm x 10 cm x 7 cm – 900 g loaf tin with a long strip of baking paper.
- Put the pistachios and sugar in a food processor and blend until fine.
- Add the butter, soured cream, eggs, flour, baking powder, bicarb, vanilla extract and black lime. Blend until smooth.
- Scrape into the prepared tin and bake for 50-55 minutes or until a skewer (poked into the centre) comes out clean.
(if it browns too quickly, cover with a sheet of foil). - Cool for 20 minutes in the tin, then turn out onto a wire rack to cool completely.
- To make the icing, mix enough lime juice into the icing sugar to make a drizzle-able icing. Spoon over the cake then finish with the pistachio slivers.