Pistachio Kunafa Chocolate Cake and Cupcakes

• 6 tablespoons White Chocolate
• 1 cup Unsalted Pistachio
• 3 tablespoons Condensed Milk
• 5 tablespoons Milk
• 25 Oreo Cream Biscuits
• 1/2 cup Milk
• 1/2 teaspoon Baking Powder
• 1/2 teaspoon Vinegar
• 1 pinch Salt
• 150g Sevaiiya
• 1 tablespoon Ghee
• 120ml Dark Chocolate
• 4 tablespoons Malai

Preparation

1. 1 For Chocolate Cake:Ready all the ingredients.
2. Powder the oreo biscuits, pinch salt and mix warm milk as needed and make a cake batter.
3. Add in baking powder and vinegar and mix. 2 Grease a loose bottomed tin.
4. Pour a 1cm thick layer of the batter. 3 Bake in a preheated oven @160°C for 7-8 minutes or until the knife comes out clean.
5. Cool on wire rack. 4 For Homemade Pistachio Paste:Ready all the pistachio paste ingredients.
6. Slightly melt white chocolate on a double boiler.(else the mixer blade may break) Coarsely powder the pistachio in mixer.
7. Add in condensed milk. 5 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.
8. I haven't.) 6 For Kunafa: In a kadhaai take ghee and roast the sevaiiya on slow gas.
9. Keep stirring until a pleasant roasted aroma releases.
10. Cool it.
11. Add in the Homemade pistachio paste.Mix well. 7 Lip smacking Kunafa is ready.
12. Spread a 2 cm layer on the cooled chocolate cake. 8 Melt dark chocolate and strained malai and prepare the chocolate ganache.
13. Cool and pour on the Kunafa layer. 9 Garnish Pistachio Kunafa Chocolate Cake with chopped pistachio and silver balls.
14. Keep in fridge for 2-3 hours.
15. Then unmould the Kunafa Cake. 10 I also prepared Kunafa cupcakes.
16. Cut and enjoy.
17. The cake looked so pretty that we could either save it or have it!! ☺ 11 Cross sectional view of the Pistachio Kunafa Chocolate Cake. 12 Enjoy with a new sweet delicacy this festive season with family and friends.