Monday, July 6, 2015

Lime & Pistacchios Sour Cream Cake

... would like to share this lovely recipe that is especially perfect on a hot summer day! This cake has a soft & light texture and is very juicy. Every bite seems like a citrus bomb blowing up inside your mouth! ... cups of hot chamomille tea make it a piece of heaven!
I guess, if you are not ready for an intense citrus explosion, you might even like to reduce the quantity of limes from 5 to 4, accordingly.
 
5 limes  ❂  100g butter (ghee)  ❂  140g sugar  ❂  1 pack of vanilla sugar  ❂  3 eggs  ❂  200g thick sour cream  ❂  250g all-purpose flour  ❂  1-2 tsp baking powder  ❂  ab. 80g pistacchios  ❂  powedered sugar (vanilla scented one would be even better)  ❂  a pinch of cardamom
1. Preheat oven to 180C.
2. Beat 100g butter (or ghee), 140g sugar and 1 pack of vanilla sugar into thick paste.
3. Add 3 eggs and 200g sour cream, then, 250g flour, a generous pinch of cardamom and 1-2 tsp baking powder. Mix all together very well.
4. Pour the dough onto a baking tray (use parchment paper too). Cut 4 fresh limes (rather small- or middle-sized ones) into round thin slices and lay 'em out on the dough.
5. Bake ab. 20min. Now is the time to make a syrup: 
6. Making a syrup: Add one lime grated rind and juice into a water-sugar mix and cook for 3 min.
7. Soak a warm cake with the syrup and sprinkle with chopped pistacchios.
8. Once the cake is cool enough, sprinkle it with confectioners sugar.
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  1. ManzanitaJuly 7, 2015 at 2:02 AM

    Dear Zara
    Eat delicious sweets while you can. This one is a temptress. I'm afraid my sweet foods have ended. (It's a mystery to me too how I got candida......the usual culprit is antibiotics, of which I never do.... so it had to be from sugar and bread) Your photography is some of the best. It's all great. Cake-eaters yum. No bread? Let them eat cake. LOL

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  2. Zara H.July 7, 2015 at 2:13 PM

    Oh, thank you so much dear Manzi, your compliments made my day!! Yeah, i know, sugar isn't healthy :(, so we reduced its amount to the minimum, as well as salt.
    Daily, we eat dates (they are so-o-o sweet and great for health), and we use honey wherever it's possible to avoid sugar. Sometimes, ordinary cakes happen in our house too, and we believe they are healthy! ;)

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  3. RachelJuly 7, 2015 at 10:01 PM

    ¡Me encantan los pistachos!
    Tiene una pintaza increíble y la lima lo hace perfecto contra el calor, como bien dices.
    Espero que estés teniendo un fantástico verano ;)
    Muchos besos!!!

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  4. Zara H.July 16, 2015 at 4:08 PM

    ¡Hola Rachel!! Que bueno de q estes pensando lo mismo. Es que la receta dijo usar nueces de nogal, pero me pareciò q los pistachos serìan lo mejor. :)

    Ah sí, nuestro fantástico verano se ha calentado hasta casi 40C! Pero lo disfrutamos muchíssimo, indoors and out. :)
    ¡Que tengas maravillosos los dìas de descanso!
    Cuídate y sonrìe! :)
    xo

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