Pistachio and Lemon Cake
Pistaschio and lemon cake, drizzled with lemon icing and topped with chopped pistachios. A delicious cake to enjoy with tea.
Ingredients
- 1½ cup Plain Flour
- ¼ cup Ground Pistachio
- 1¼ tsp Baking Powder
- ½ cup Caster Sugar
- ½ cup Oil See Notes
- ¼ cup milk
- ¼ cup Yoghurt
- 2 Eggs
- 1 tbsp Chopped Pistachios.
Lemon Icing
- 1 tbsp Lemon Juice
- ½ cup Icing Sugar
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 180°C and brush a pan with oil or butter.
- In a mixing bowl combine sugar, yoghurt, eggs and oil. Mix with electric beater untill all ingredients are well combined.
- Sift flour and baking powder. Add it to wet ingredients along with ground pistachio. Mix with beater while adding milk.
- Pour the mixture into the greased pan and bake for 30-40 minutes untill the skewer comes out clean.
- To prepare lemon icing mix lemon juice with icing sugar. If icing is runny add more icing sugar.
- Allow cake to cool down on wire rack. Drizzle with icing and top it with chopped pistachios.