Pistachio Cream Frosting and Filling

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This is a velvety smooth, not real sweet frosting and/or filling for cakes, cupcakes, muffins, brownies anywhere you want the flavor of pistachio in a creamy frosting or filling. It will fill and frost a two layer caker, 24 cupcakes and top a 9 by 13 inch cake or batch I f brownies.

Pistachio Cream Frosting and Filling

This is a velvety smooth, not real sweet frosting and/or filling for cakes, cupcakes, muffins, brownies anywhere you want the flavor of pistachio in a creamy frosting or filling. It will fill and frost a two layer caker, 24 cupcakes and top a 9 by 13 inch cake or batch I f brownies.

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Ingredients

15 mins
8 servings
  1. 2 cupssalted pistachios
  2. 2 cupsconfectioner's sugar
  3. 3tablespoonsblespoons salted butter, at room te,perature
  4. 2 cupsheavy cream
  5. 1/2 teaspoonvanilla extract
  6. as needed, drops of green food color

Cooking Instructions

15 mins
  1. 1

    Place pistachios in a large saucepan. Cover with water, bring to a boil and cook 2 minutes. This step is critical to soften the pistachos for a silky smooth En texture. Drain the pistachios.

  2. 2

    Place drained pistachos in a food processor and blend until smooth. This wii take about 2 minutes, stopping to scrape down sides a few times.

  3. 3

    Add butter and blend until smooth

  4. 4

    Add one cup of the confectioner's sugar slowly in batches , blending until very smooth

  5. 5

    In a large bowl beat cream to soft peaks, add vanilla and remaining 1 cup confectioner's sugar

  6. 6

    Add a few spoonfulls of pistachio puree to cream, beat it in carefully. Don't overbeat. When cream is thickened fold in remaining pistacho puree to blend. At this point I added some green food coloring to get the classic green color, my pistachos were natural un colored pistachos

  7. 7

    Refrigerate firm up for easy spreading or piping

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“Fenway” passed away on 2/3/2021. For the last year she tried to teach her husband of 42 years how to cook like her. Although I will never be as good of a cook as her she did pass on her passion for cooking. Therefore, I will attempt to carry on her legacy and maintain/update her site. My wife was a Registered Nurse, a licensed deep water aerobics instructor, a mother to our 2 children and a fantastic cook. We grew up in New England but have been fortunate to live all over the US. I am now retired, missing her terribly, but thankful for all the years we had together and all her cooking lessons.
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Comments (6)

Roxy Elizabeth
Roxy Elizabeth @cook_12453775
Why was my pistachio paste, once I added the 1st cup of icing sugar into it still really firm. I mixed in a few spoon to the whip cream, it was clumpy and then I tried folding in the rest, impossible. And then mixed it because it was lumpy anyways. Then I over mixed the whip cream. What should I have done differently

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