# Pistachio and Raspberry Cake

This is a delicious pistachio and raspberry cake with vanilla cake layers, raspberry buttercream, and pistachio spread, decorated with fresh raspberries.

- Cuisine: American
- Category: Baked Goods
- Language: en

## Ingredients

- butter
- sugar
- oil
- vanilla extract
- eggs
- flour
- sweet milk
- freeze dried raspberry powder
- pistachio spread
- chopped pistachios
- fresh raspberries

## Instructions

1. Combine butter, sugar, oil, and vanilla extract in a bowl.
2. Mix with an electric mixer until light and fluffy.
3. Add an egg yolk and whisk it in.
4. Add flour and whisk until combined to make the cake batter.
5. Pour the batter evenly into two lined cake pans.
6. Tap the pans to level the batter and remove air bubbles.
7. Bake the cake layers in the oven.
8. Prepare a sweet milk mixture by heating milk, sugar, and vanilla extract in a saucepan.
9. Pour the sweet milk over the baked cake layers for moisture.
10. For the buttercream, add freeze-dried raspberry powder to a Swiss meringue buttercream and mix until combined.
11. Spread a layer of raspberry buttercream on one cake layer.
12. Pipe a border of buttercream around the edge.
13. Fill the center with pistachio spread and smooth it out.
14. Place the second cake layer on top.
15. Apply a crumb coat of raspberry buttercream all over the cake.
16. Cover the sides of the cake with chopped pistachios.
17. Pipe swirls of raspberry buttercream on top of the cake.
18. Decorate the cake with fresh raspberries.

## Equipment

- bowl
- electric mixer
- whisk
- cake pans
- oven
- saucepan
- spatula
- cake turntable
- piping bag

## Tips

- Do not add chopped pistachios to the cake batter as it makes the cake taste dry and lumpy.
- Pour sweet milk over the cake layers for extra moisture.

## Source

- Original video: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZNdv6K6PC/
- Recipe page: https://www.cliprecipe.com/recipe/1a37c711-6f9d-4db6-b9a8-99bbe43ed3bf
- Extracted: 2025-10-20

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