Chocolate Pistachio Brown Butter Loaf

Name: Chocolate Pistachio Brown Butter Loaf
Cook time: 40 min
Yield: 8 servings
Ingredients: 120 g unsalted butter; 140 g caster sugar; 2 eggs; 3 egg yolks; 2 tsp vanilla extract; 100 g ground almonds; 80 g chopped pistachios; 20 g chopped pistachios (extra for decorating); sea salt; 0.5 tsp baking powder; 0.25 tsp bicarbonate of soda; 1 tbsp coco/cacao powder; 70 g dark chocolate (70%); 60 g dark chocolate (70%) (for melting on top of cake)

A delicious cake that marks 65/100 and can be improved to 75 by swapping butter with extra virgin olive oil.

Yield8 servings

Cook time40 minutes

Ingredients

Directions

1
Preheat the oven to 170C degrees and line a loaf tin with baking paper.
2
Set a saucepan to a medium to high heat and add the butter to melt completely.
3
Simmer and stir until you smell a hazelnut aroma and it turns golden.
4
Take off heat and pour into a large bowl.
5
Add sugar, all the eggs, vanilla and mix to combine.
6
Beat in ground almonds, baking powder, bicarbonate of soda, salt and stir through the pistachios.
7
Add 2/3 of the batter to the loaf tin and stir coco powder and chopped chocolate through the remaining 1/3.
8
Pour choc batter into loaf tin and use a fork to create swirls.
9
Bake for 40mins or until a skewer comes out fairly clean.
10
Melt 60g dark choc and pour over loaf (optional).
11
Chop up 20g pistachios and sprinkle over cake (optional).

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