Pistachio Olive Oil Cake
By Chef Zhongwen Hu

Ingredients
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			 Ingredients  | 
			
			 Metric Grams  | 
			
			 Metric High-Volume  | 
			
			 Comments  | 
		
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			 Cake Flour  | 
			
			 180 g  | 
			
			 1800 g  | 
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			 California Pistachios, Chopped  | 
			
			 80 g  | 
			
			 800 g  | 
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			 Baking Powder  | 
			
			 1 Tbsp  | 
			
			 10 g  | 
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			 Sea Salt  | 
			
			 1/2 tsp  | 
			
			 5 g  | 
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			 Milk  | 
			
			 60 g  | 
			
			 600 g  | 
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			 Olive Oil  | 
			
			 100 g  | 
			
			 1000 g  | 
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			 Honey  | 
			
			 30 g  | 
			
			 300 g  | 
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			 Whole Egg  | 
			
			 3 eggs  | 
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			 Lemon Zest  | 
			
			 2 Tbsp  | 
			
			 20  | 
			|
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			 Cream Cheese  | 
			
			 150 g  | 
			
			 1500 g  | 
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			 Butter  | 
			
			 20 g  | 
			
			 200 g  | 
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			 Castor Sugar  | 
			
			 30 g  | 
			
			 300 g  | 
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			 Total  | 
			
			 670 g  | 
			
			 6700 g  | 
			
Instructions
Prepare to a large glass bowl, pour dry ingredients such as flour, chopped pistachios, salt and baking powder in bowl, mix until even; Prepare another glass bowl, mix wet ingredients such as milk, eggs, olive oil and honey until even; Pour mixture from step 2 into mixture from step 1, mix evenly; Pre-heat oven to 175℃, pour mixture from previous step onto 8” baking pan; upper/lower element on, bake for roughly 20 minutes; remove from oven to cool; Prepare cream layer for decoration. Soften cream cheese and butter, add sugar and small amounts of honey, whisk using electric mixer; once ready, coat mixture onto cake; Sprinkle pistachios on top of the cake as decoration; refrigerate before serving.
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