Lemon and pistachio cake
Fragrant sponge filled with butter icing
Source: Family Food by Netmums
Ingredients
- For the marzipan
- pistachios
- ground almonds
- golden caster sugar
- icing sugar
- Egg white from 1 medium egg, beaten
- For the cake
- butter, softened
- Finely grated zest of 2 lemons, plus 3 tbsp juice
- medium eggs
- self-raising flour
- baking powder
- For the butter icing
- icing sugar, plus extra for dusting
- lemon juice
- Chopped pistachios, to decorate