Melon and Pistachios Cake

Name: Melon and Pistachios Cake
Cuisine: Lebanese
Ingredients: 3 free-range eggs; 1½ cups caster sugar; 2½ cups all-purpose flour; 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda; 2 tsp baking powder; ¼ cup natural yoghurt; ¾ cup vegetable oil; 1 tsp vanilla; ½ tsp nutmeg; 300 g chopped cantaloupe melon soaked the night before with a sprinkle of icing sugar; 300 g chopped cantaloupe melon soaked the night before with a sprinkle of icing sugar; 75 g pistachios, roughly chopped

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Ramadan Express

By Lina Saad

Published 2017

About

Ingredients

3 free-range eggs
1½ cups caster sugar
2½ cups all-purpose

Asia
Lebanon
Dessert
Cake
Vegetarian
Mediterranean
Ramadan

Method

Into a free-stand mixer, beat the eggs and sugar until they are light and creamy in texture.

Add the oil, vanilla and yoghurt and mix well for about 3 minutes.

Place all the dry ingredients together (flour, soda, baking powder, nutmeg), add them to the bowl gradually and mix well together until well combined. Make sure the flour has been sifted first to avoid any lumps when mixi