Pistachio Cake

Pain de Pistaches

Preparation info
  • Yield

    8 to 12

    servings.
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Savoie: The Land, People, and Food of the French Alps

By Madeleine Kamman

Published 1989

  • About

On the afternoon of the 15th of August, in that beautiful property in Veyrier-du-Lac that I mentioned in the Fish chapter, we were given for an afternoon snack the most delicious pistachio cake together with a glass of orange juice, which in those pre-World War II days was still a luxury. Years later, after formally learning pastry work, I realized that the pastry chef who baked this beauty for us used half almonds and half pistachio nuts, combined into a simp