Pistachio Cakes With Lemon Cream

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At Osteria Morini, these not-overly saccharine small cakes are served successful savarin molds and garnished with crème fraîche sorbetto, meringue kisses, blood-orange sauce, Medjool dates and a confit of Buddha's hands.

You tin usage almond flour alternatively than the harder-to-find pistachio flour. Pistachio flour tin beryllium purchased astatine high-end market stores oregon online astatine www.nuts.com. Pistachio paste is besides disposable via www.nuts.com

The small cakes tin beryllium made and refrigerated a time successful advance. They tin beryllium frozen for up to 1 week; spot them successful a container, past seal the instrumentality and wrapper it successful integrative wrapper to marque it airtight. Bring the cupcakes to country somesthesia earlier serving. The citrus pick tin beryllium made an hr oregon 2 successful beforehand and refrigerated. The effect tin beryllium prepared a time oregon 2 successful beforehand and refrigerated.

From Alex Levin, pastry cook astatine Osteria Morini successful the District.

Ingredients

measuring cup

Servings: 12 cakes

For the fruit

1 cupful water
1/2 cupful granulated sugar
2 oregon 3 of the pursuing fruits (preferably a combination): Cara Cara oranges, humor oranges, navel oregon humor oranges, ruby reddish grapefruit oregon satsuma mandarin oranges

For the cakes

16 tablespoons (2 sticks) unsalted butter, astatine country temperature
1 cupful positive 3 tablespoons granulated sugar
3 ample eggs, astatine country temperature
3/4 cupful all-purpose flour
2 1/4 cups pistachio flour (see headnote; whitethorn substitute almond flour)
1 1/2 teaspoons kosher brackish oregon fleur de sel
1/2 cupful pistachio paste (see headnote)

For the citrus cream

1/2 cupful chilled dense cream
1/2 spoon confectioners' sugar
Finely grated zest of 1/2 lemon

For serving

Plain oregon vanilla frozen yogurt

Nutritional Facts

Per cake

Calories
480
Fat
34 g
Saturated Fat
14 g
Carbohydrates
39 g
Sodium
270 mg
Cholesterol
105 mg
Protein
6 g
Fiber
4 g
Sugar
26 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

From Alex Levin, pastry cook astatine Osteria Morini successful the District.

Tested by Vanessa Williams.

Published December 24, 2013

Updated March 14, 2026