Chocolate Pistachio Bread Food

CHOCOLATE-PISTACHIO BREAD

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350°F. Grease bottom and sides of 9x5-inch loaf pan with shortening.
• In large bowl, mix granulated sugar, butter, milk and egg until well blended. Stir in remaining ingredients except sugar crystals. Pour into pan. Sprinkle with sugar crystals.
• Bake 50 to 55 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool 10 minutes. Loosen sides of loaf from pan; remove from pan to wire rack. Cool completely, about 2 hours, before slicing.

PISTACHIO QUICK BREAD

Steps:

• In a large bowl, combine cake and dry pudding mixes. Add the eggs, sour cream, water and oil; beat until blended (batter will be thick). , Combine sugar and cinnamon. Spoon half of the batter into 2 greased 8x4-in. loaf pans; sprinkle each with 2 tablespoons cinnamon sugar. Spread with remaining batter; sprinkle with remaining cinnamon sugar. , Bake at 350° for 35-40 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool for 10 minutes before removing from pans to wire racks.

CHOCOLATE, PISTACHIO & NOUGAT SEMIFREDDO

Steps:

• Butter and line a 900g/2lb loaf tin with cling film. Bring a pan of water to a gentle simmer. Put the sugar and eggs in a heatproof bowl, then place over the simmering water and whisk until pale, thick and doubled in volume. Remove from the heat, plunge the bottom of the bowl into cold water and continue whisking until the mixture is cool.
• Melt the chocolate in the microwave on Low, stir, then fold into the egg mixture. Whip the cream to soft peaks and fold into the chocolate egg mixture with the nougat and pistachios.
• Pour the mixture into the loaf tin, smooth the surface with a spoon, then cover and freeze until firm. This can be done up to 2 weeks ahead. To serve, turn out onto a serving dish, remove the cling film and leave in the fridge for 15 mins to soften slightly before slicing.

PISTACHIO BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350*F
• Grease two bread pans with a spray oil or butter.
• In a small bowl combine white sugar and cinnamon, mix well.
• Pour cinnamon sugar into loaf pan and gently shake it all around coating the bottom and sides of pan. Coat both pans..
• In a medium bowl, combine cake mix, pistachio pudding mix (dry), eggs, oil, water & sour cream.
• Add additional green food coloring if you wish for your bread to be a darker green. Mine is a lime green color, mix well.
• Batter will be very thick. Pour half the batter into each pan. Spread smoothly on top in preparation for baking.
• Bake for 45 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the middle of the bread comes out clean.
• Let bread rest for 5 minutes before removing from pans and allowing to fully cool on a wire rack.
• Once cake is fully cooled, make icing.
• In a small bowl with a hand whisk, combine vanilla extract, almond extract & milk. Mix well.
• Add powdered sugar 1/2 cup at a time, mixing well after each addition.
• After icing is mixed pour over bread.
• Top immediately with chopped pistachios as icing will dry quickly.

CHOCOLATE-ESPRESSO-PISTACHIO BISCOTTI

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
• Grease a large rectangular baking pan with a light coating of olive oil.
• Sift all dry ingredients together.
• In small bowl, dissolve espresso powder in 1/3 cup water.
• Add eggs and olive oil and beat with a whisk until well-combined.
• Pour wet ingredients into dry, add pistachios and (yes, I do this by hand) start mixing the flour gently into the liquids until all the ingredients have been incorporated and you have a malleable dough.
• If the dough is a bit sticky, sprinkle over 1 tablespoonful of flour and turn dough into the flour to coat.
• Knead the flour in.
• The dough should now be malleable without being sticky.
• If it is still sticky, repeat with another tablespoonful of flour.
• Cut dough into 3 equal pieces and shape into logs that are about 12 inches long and 2 ½ inches wide (every person’s logs are slightly different – they will spread while baking so have a good distance between them).
• Bake for 30 minutes.
• The biscotti will have risen only slightly, spread out some, and have a cracked surface.
• Cool completely.
• Preheat oven to 300 degrees F.
• With a serrated bread knife and a straight, downwards motion, cut biscotti at just under ½ inch intervals on the diagonal.
• (this will leave you with 6 not-so-nice-looking end pieces that you can munch on there and then) Place the pieces, cut side down, back in the baking pan.
• Not all the pieces may fit, in which case you’ll have to bake a second pan's worth after the first.
• Staggering two pans is not suggested unless you have a convection oven and can use that feature to make sure there is even heat distributed within the oven.
• Bake 15 minutes, turn pieces over, bake 15 minutes longer.
• Cool completely and keep in an airtight container.

SALTED CHOCOLATE PISTACHIO SHORTBREAD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325°F (163°C). Line two 9-inch cake pans with parchment paper leaving enough overhang around the sides to easily lift shortbread out. (Parchment is used so you can easily remove the shortbread and not cut it while it's in the pan.)
• Using a hand mixer or a stand mixer fitted with paddle attachment, beat the butter on high speed until completely smooth, about 1 minute. Add the granulated sugar and brown sugar and beat together until smooth and creamy, about 1 minute. Add the vanilla, salt, and flour and beat on low speed, gradually increasing to high speed as the mixture combines. Add 2/3 cup of the finely chopped pistachios, reserving the rest for sprinkling on top of the chocolate. Dough will be very crumbly.
• Press 1/2 of the dough into each of the prepared cake pans. You want it nice and compact in each pan.
• Bake the shortbread for 30 minutes or until lightly browned on top and around the edges.
• Remove from the oven and allow to cool for 10 minutes. Carefully remove the shortbread from the pans by picking it up with the parchment paper on the sides. Cut each into 12 wedges. You want to make sure you cut the shortbread while it's still warm. Allow to cool completely on the parchment before dipping into chocolate.
• Melt the chopped chocolate in the microwave in 20 second increments, stopping and stirring after each until completely smooth. Dip the shortbread ends into chocolate and sprinkle with remaining chopped pistachios and sea salt. Allow chocolate to completely set.

CHOCOLATE PISTACHIO BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• Grease bottom and sides of a 9x5x3 loaf pan with shortening.
• Mix sugar, butter, milk and egg in a large bowl until well blended.
• Stir in remaining ingredients, except decorating sugar.
• Pour batter into loaf pan.
• Sprinkle with decorating sugar, if desired.
• Bake 50 to 55 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center of loaf comes out clean.
• Cool 10 minutes in pan.
• Loosen sides of loaf from pan and remove loaf to a wire rack to cool.
• Cool 2 hours before slicing.