natural pistachio cake

You'll love this homemade pistachio cake with no artificial flavors, food coloring, or pudding mix! This scrumptious pistachio layer cake with cream cheese frosting is the prefect spring cake for all occasions!

Pistachio Cake

pistachios, pulsed into fine crumbs

all purpose flour

salt

baking soda

baking powder

Tablespoons vegetable oil

unsalted butter, room temperature

sugar

egg egg

vanilla extract

almond extract

sour cream yogurt

Tablespoons milk

cream cheese, room temperature

butter, softened

honey

Preheat oven to 350°F. Grease and flour three 6-inch cake pans. Set aside.

In a food processor pulse the pistachios until they are broken down into fine pieces. It&#8217;s okay if it&#8217;s not completely powdery, but the pieces should be very small.

Combine the pistachios, flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt in a bowl. Stir to combine. Set aside.

In a stand mixer fit with the whisk attachment, combine the butter and oil and beaut until homogenous. Add the granulated sugar and beat until light and fluffy and pale in color. Add the egg and egg white, vanilla extract and almond extract and beat on medium high until light and fluffy and pale in color.

Add the sour cream and milk and mix to incorporate slightly. Don&#8217;t over mix.

Last, fold the dry ingredients into the wet until combined and no streaks of flour remain.

Divide the batter evenly between the prepared pans. Bake for 20-25 minutes  or until light golden brown and a knife inserted into the middle comes out mostly clean. Allow to cool completely.

While the cakes are cooling, make the cream cheese frosting. In a stand mixer with a paddle attachment, cream the butter and cream cheese until light and fluffy, about 2 minutes. Add in the vanilla extract, salt, honey, and powdered sugar and whip to combine, about 1 minute more.

Place the first cake on a plate, then top with a large dollop of frosting. Layer the second and third layer, frosting in between each layer. Finish by frosting the outside of the cake with the remaining frosting.

Sprinkle pistachio pieces along the sides of the cake, pushing it into the frosting gently with your hands. If you’d like, decorate the top of your cake with fresh fruit, more pistachio crumbs or a drizzle of honey. Enjoy!

I love the idea of a pistachio cake where the delicate pistachio flavor is the star instead of the bright green artificial color associated with pistachio!

I saw this recipe this morning and HAD to try it.  I ran out to buy pistachios and cream cheese and hurried home to bake.  I actually waited until after dinner to have a piece.  Oh my!  It is so good.  My husband (who doesn't like really sweet things) said the frosting was a perfect complement to the cake.  He ate it all.  I had a second piece.  LOVE this cake.  Thanks so much.

All I had were roasted, salted pistachios, so I omitted the additional salt and also went with half the amount of almond extract. I also just made some slightly sweetened whipped cream to frost the cakes because that's just my family's preference (and my laziness). But oh my god the cake is so flavorful and most importantly the pistachio really comes through. The texture is surprisingly light and moist. I'm not even a huge cake person because they're usually just so boringly predictable, but this might be the best cake I've ever baked?? Knock on cake? Thanks for the recipe!

This was the most easiest fun cake, I made it for my step daughter and her family for their Easter dinner  . I used  two 8 in pans for two layers, and passion fruit extract in your buttercream and brushed the cake layers with passion fruit reduction. We love the combination of  pistachio and passion fruit. I did not add the honey in the buttercream but drizzled it over the frosted cake pure perfection.  Thank you for the recipe.

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