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Hey Cake Friends, over the weekend, I had the opportunity to bake an adorable cake for a baby shower. When the client was picking fillings and flavors, I was a bit apprehensive with their choice as it’s been awhile since I made this particular cake flavor.
Pistachio cake is not a common flavor picked for events. You mostly see its popularity increase during St. Patrick’s Day because of its green color.
While I made it before it’s definitely had been
A lot of the recipes called for box cake and I am a homemade from scratch kind of girl. I was about to give up and tweak one of my own recipes until I can across this website the kitchenmagpie.com.
The Kitchen Magpie recipe had exactly what I was looking for when it came to consistency. I love a cake that uses both butter and oil. Just from reading the description I knew I was on my way to creating Pistachio Perfection in a cake.
It was definite that I had to try this recipe out before baking the actual cake for the event. So here is my step by step guide to making Kitchen Magpie Homemade Pistachio Pudding Cake.
The recipe called for a
I opted for a cream cheese frosting instead, which I will also be sure to share the recipe with you in my next post.
Ingredients 
Ingredients
- 3/4 cup unsalted butter softened
- 1 1/2 cups of white granulated sugar
- 1 99g package of jello instant pistachio pudding
- 4 eggs
- 3/4 cup chopped pistachios
- 1 1/4 cup whole milk
- 1/3 cup canola oil
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 tsp almond extract
- 1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 3 tbsp cornstarch
- 4 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon salt
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F. Grease and flour ( two 6 inch pans (2 inch deep pans). I used baking spray and add a 6inch liner be sure to grease the liner as well to prevent sticking.
- In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, cornstarch, baking powder and salt until throughly combined and then set aside.
- Using an electric mixer on medium speed with a paddle attachment, cream together the butter and granulated sugar until light and fluffy, about 3-5 minutes. Add in the DRY pistachio pudding mix and combine thoroughly.
- Beat in eggs, one at a time, making sure each egg is thoroughly incorporated.
- Mix in the chopped pistachios.
- In a large measuring cup or bowl, whisk and combine milk, oil and vanilla extract together. The original recipie only called for vanilla, I included almond extract in my cake.
- Starting with the dry ingredients, alternate pouring a third of the wet and dry ingredients into the bowl, incorporating thoroughly after each addition. Mix on medium speed for 2-3 additional minutes.
- Pour the cake batter into the prepared pans and bake for 35-50 minutes, or until a tester inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean.
- Take cake out oven and let it rest for 15 minutes ( personally I prefer to stick the cakes in the over for 15 minutes)
- Invert the cake onto a baking rack to cool complete
Add- ons
- Watch the cake as the top does brown faster than the inside. I found it helpful to turn the cake half way through baking.
- Also turning the oven down to 300 degrees close to the end help to the end of the baking process to prevent burning ( about 10-15 minutes before it’s due to come out). Please note if your cake falls it because it was not baked long enough be sure to use the tester through-out the cake not just in the middle.
Take- away
After making the trial cake I didn’t find the pistachio flavoring strong enough. I added 1/2 tsp of pistachio Oil to the event cake as well as 2 tsp of
In addition to more chopped
This is definitely a moist fluffy cake, that will have your tastebuds craving for more. The client paired it with a raspberry filling and it was a huge hit.
Can’t wait for you guys to try this recipe. Thank you Kitchen Magpie for a delicious recipe.
Until Next Time
Happy Caking!!
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