Easy Pistachio Cake

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This Pistachio Cake recipe is a super easy dessert made with just a few pantry items. The end result is moist, tender, and light like a cloud!

Prep Time10

Cook Time40

Total Time50

Course: Dessert

Cuisine: American

Keyword: pistachio cake, pistachio pudding cake

Servings:

Ingredients

15.25 ounce box white cake mix
3.4 ounce box pistachio instant pudding (just the powder)
4 large eggs
1 cup 7up soda
1/2 cup vegetable oil
1/4 teaspoon almond extract
1/2 cup finely chopped pistachios
2 tablespoons powdered sugar , for dusting

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Butter and flour a 10 or 12-inch fluted bundt pan. (See note below if you don't have a bundt pan.)
In a large bowl, whisk together the cake mix, instant pudding powder, eggs, 7up soda, vegetable oil, and almond extract; beat with an electric mixer or whisk vigorously for 2 minutes, until combined. Fold in the pistachios.
Pour evenly into the prepared pan.
Bake for approximately 40 minutes or until a toothpick in the center comes out clean. Remove from oven and cool 10 minutes, then run a dull knife along the edges to loosen. Then allow to cool completely.
Turn cake out onto a wire rack or plate; dust with powdered sugar.
Slice and serve!

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Notes

Using sugar-free ingredients. The cake does turn out using sugar free soda and pudding powder, if needed.

Replace the 7up. The carbonation make this cake so light and fluffy! But it can be replaced with club soda, milk, or water.

Use a different pudding and/or nut. This is a pistachio cake, but you can replace the instant pudding with a different flavor and swap out the chopped pistachios with walnuts or almonds.

Add in some coconut flakes. A cup of sweetened coconut flakes can be added to the batter for another delicious layer of flavor (do it!)

Frost it. Instead of dusting the cooled caked with powdered sugar, coat it with frosting, or drizzle with icing or chocolate ganache. Yum!

Don’t own a bundt pan? A fluted bundt pan makes this cake so pretty. But if you don’t have one, no worries. This cake can also be made in a greased 9x13 baking dish with the cooking time between 25-30 minutes.

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