Name: Sicilian Pistachio Cake
Cook time: 35 min
Total time: 35 min
Yield: Serves: 8 to 10
Cuisine: Scilian
Ingredients: pure vanilla extract; baking soda; unsalted butter; salt; sour cream; baking powder; bleached all-purpose flour; cake flour; pure almond extract; superfine sugar; blanched pistachios; eggs

Preparation info

Serves:
8 to 10

Difficulty
Medium
Ready in
35 min

Appears in

Rose's Heavenly Cakes

By Rose Levy Beranbaum

Published 2009

About

Although I wanted to create this cake for The Cake Bible, twenty years ago, blanched bright-green, flavorful pistachio nuts, at least the high-quality ones, were all but unattainable for the home baker. Today, there are some sources for top-quality Iranian, Sicilian, and Californian pistachios that I can recommend (see Pistachios).

On a trip to Sicily,