069 Chocolate cake with pistacchio

Ingredients:

• 50 g unsalted pistacchios
• 100 g marzipan
• 100 g dark chocolate (70% cacao)
• 130 g butter
• 200 g flour
• 50 g cornstarch
• 1 pack of baking powder
• 2 tablespoons of cacao
• 3 eggs
• 120 g sugar
• 100 g yoghurt
• 100 g dark chocolate (60% cacao)
• 50 g cream
• 30 g unsalted chopped pistacchios

Preheat the oven (180 °C). Butter the baking form. Crush the pistacchios in the mixer and knead with the marzipan in crumbs. Melt chocolate (70% cacao) and butter in a water bath.

Mix flour, starch, baking powder and cacao. Mix eggs, sugar and yoghurt. Mix both mixtures, then add the melted chocolate. Put half of the dough in the form, layer it with the marzipan crumbs and put the rest of the dough on it. Bake for 50 minutes, let cool down for 10 minutes, then take out of the form and cool down.

For the icing mix chocolate (60% cacao) and cream in a water bath. Let cool down a bit, spread the top of the cake and sprinkle with chopped pistacchios.

Serve with whipped cream.