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mixed nut cake with lemon glaze and pistachios ©️ Nel Brouwer-van den Bergh

Mixed nut cake with lemon glaze and pistachios

Prep Time 30 minutes
Cook Time 40 minutes
Total Time 1 hour 10 minutes
Course Dessert
Cuisine Lebanese, Turkish
Servings 4

Ingredients
  

For the cake

  • look at the post of pistachio almond cake
  • divide all amounts by 2

lemon glaze

  • 0.5 lemon
  • 6 tbsp icing sugar

cover

  • 30 pistachio nuts

Instructions
 

the cake

  • follow the instructions in the pistachio almond pie post, but divide the amounts by 2
  • prepare the nut 'dough' until it is ready to fill the baking forms
  • Fold a parchment paper basket in the baking rings and let them rest on a baking sheet
  • fill the rings for about 60%
  • Then bake at 338 F (170 C) for 40 minutes
  • Let the cakes cool down

the glaze

  • Use a fine grater to take the zest of a half lemon and place in a small pan
  • Press the juice from the half lemon and add to the small pan
  • Add the icing sugar , stir and heat up
  • the sugar should dissolve at 50 C, otherwise add more juice or add more sugar
  • let the glaze cool down; it will become very viscous
  • you can store the glaze for weeks in a closed container

the cover

  • chop the pistachios coarsely
  • before serving, cut the cakes in half and cover the cakes with lemon glaze
  • Thereafter cover the cakes with the coarsely chopped pistachios and serve
  • Optionally offer some fruit on the side: berries, cherries, marmelade

Notes

Method: oven baking
Food allergy & intolerance information: nuts