Ingredients
- 1 tablespoon unsalted butter, melted
- ¾ cup + ½ cup shelled, roasted unsalted pistachios
- 2½ cups cake flour + more for dusting
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup unsalted butter, room temperature
- 1½ cups granulated sugar
- ½ cup vegetable oil
- 6 large eggs, yolks and whites separated, at room temperature
- ¾ cup cold water
- 2 teaspoon freshly grated orange zest
- ¼ teaspoon pistachio extract
- ½ teaspoon cream of tartar
- For the frosting:
- 4 cups heavy cream, cold
- ⅓ cup powdered sugar
- Zest and juice of 1 medium orange
- 1½ cups shelled, roasted, unsalted pistachios
Recipe Description
This pistachio layer cake with orange cream frosting has ground pistachios as well as pistachio extract in the cake itself, just to drive home the pistachio flavor. The frosting is fluffy, whipped cream with fresh orange zest. Together, this pairing makes for a heavenly combination!
With over 300 recipes on this blog, a handful of cake-based dishes like cupcakes and the odd cake here and there, like my salted caramel orange upside down cake and Battenberg cake, it was time to really pull out all the stops and make the cake of all cakes!
