Pistachio Olive Oil Cake

By Chef Zhongwen Hu

olive oil cake

Ingredients

Ingredients

Metric Grams

Metric High-Volume

Comments

Cake Flour

180 g

1800 g

 

California Pistachios, Chopped

80 g

800 g

 

Baking Powder

1 Tbsp

10 g

 

Sea Salt

1/2 tsp

5 g

 

Milk

60 g

600 g

 

Olive Oil

100 g

1000 g

 

Honey

30 g

300 g

 

Whole Egg

   

3 eggs

Lemon Zest

2 Tbsp

20

 

Cream Cheese

150 g

1500 g

 

Butter

20 g

200 g

 

Castor Sugar

30 g

300 g

 

Total

670 g

6700 g

 

Instructions

Prepare to a large glass bowl, pour dry ingredients such as flour, chopped pistachios, salt and baking powder in bowl, mix until even; Prepare another glass bowl, mix wet ingredients such as milk, eggs, olive oil and honey until even; Pour mixture from step 2 into mixture from step 1, mix evenly; Pre-heat oven to 175, pour mixture from previous step onto 8” baking pan; upper/lower element on, bake for roughly 20 minutes; remove from oven to cool; Prepare cream layer for decoration. Soften cream cheese and butter, add sugar and small amounts of honey, whisk using electric mixer; once ready, coat mixture onto cake; Sprinkle pistachios on top of the cake as decoration; refrigerate before serving.

 

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