Pistachio Kunafa Chocolate Cake and Cupcakes

1 For Chocolate Cake:Ready all the ingredients.

Powder the oreo biscuits, pinch salt and mix warm milk as needed and make a cake batter.

Add in baking powder and vinegar and mix.

2 Grease a loose bottomed tin.

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.

Cool on wire rack.

4 For Homemade Pistachio Paste:Ready all the pistachio paste ingredients.

Slightly melt white chocolate on a double boiler.(else the mixer blade may break) Coarsely powder the pistachio in mixer.

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.

I haven't.) 6 For Kunafa: In a kadhaai take ghee and roast the sevaiiya on slow gas.

Keep stirring until a pleasant roasted aroma releases.

Cool it.

Add in the Homemade pistachio paste.Mix well.

7 Lip smacking Kunafa is ready.

Spread a 2 cm layer on the cooled chocolate cake.

8 Melt dark chocolate and strained malai and prepare the chocolate ganache.

Cool and pour on the Kunafa layer.

9 Garnish Pistachio Kunafa Chocolate Cake with chopped pistachio and silver balls.

Keep in fridge for 2-3 hours.

Then unmould the Kunafa Cake.

10 I also prepared Kunafa cupcakes.

Cut and enjoy.

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.