“In this dense, rich cake, the pistachio gives an almost baklava-like flavour and works perfectly with the blackberries,” explains cookery author Rukmini Iyer.
“David Loftus, the photographer for this book, very kindly said that if he’d been served a little square of this in a Michelin-starred restaurant, he’d have been very happy, so consider impressing your friends with it after dinner. Best eaten the day it is made, on account of the fruit.”
Blackberry and pistachio cake
Equipment
- Food processor, spice grinder or Nutribullet
- Mixing bowl
- 28 x 22cm roasting or baking tin
Ingredients
- 150 g unsalted, shelled pistachios
- 170 g unsalted butter, plus more for the tin softened
- 170 g golden caster sugar
- 3 free range eggs
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 200 g blackberries halved if very large
- Icing sugar, to dust
Method
- Preheat the oven to 160°C fan/180°C/gas 4, and line and butter a 28 x 22cm roasting or baking tin with non-stick baking or greaseproof paper. Blitz the pistachios in a food processor, spice grinder or Nutribullet until very finely ground (but don’t over-blitz, or they’ll get oily).
- Beat the butter and sugar together until smooth, then whisk in the eggs. Stir in the ground pistachios, flour and baking powder and mix briefly until combined.
- Tip the cake batter into the prepared tin and dot with the blackberries. Transfer to the oven and bake for 25 minutes, until the cake is risen, firm to the touch, and a skewer inserted into a non-blackberry bit comes out clean. Do not panic if the cake has risen like a glossy quilted blanket to hide all your blackberries – this will particularly happen with small berries – they’re still there and the cake will taste delicious.
- Let the cake cool in the tin for five minutes before transferring it, with its paper, to a wire rack to cool down. Dust with icing sugar before serving.
Notes
Nutrition
The Quick Roasting Tin by Rukmini Iyer is published by Square Peg. Photography David Loftus.
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