How to make cardamom cake step by step

Step 1 - preparations

• Preheat the oven to 170 ℃ (convection) or 180℃ (top/bottom heat mode).
• Grease the baking tin with butter and dust with flour or e.g. breadcrumbs.
• If your pistachios are in their shells, shell them and measure half a cup of shelled nuts.
• Mix together flour, cardamom, baking powder and baking soda.
  375 g all-purpose flour, 2 teaspoon baking powder, 0,5 teaspoon baking soda, 1-2 teaspoons cardamom
  

Step 2 - preparing the cardamom dough

• Cream the butter together with sugar and vanilla until fluffy and smooth - I mix for a few minutes at the highest speed of the mixer.
  170 g butter, 200 g powdered sugar, 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  
• Add eggs one by one to the butter mixture and briefly mix each on low speed of the mixer.
  3 eggs
  
• Add wheat flour in portions to the dough, mixing briefly on low speed.
  
• Add flour alternately with buttermilk until you have added all of it to the dough.
  250 ml buttermilk
  
• Stop mixing when you can still see remnants of flour, then just briefly stir the dough with a spoon.
  
• Transfer the dough to the prepared mold.
  

Step 3 - preparing the pistachio crumble

• Blend the pistachios in a food processor or blender into a fairly fine powder.
  approx 65 g pistachios
  
• Add the remaining crumble ingredients to them and briefly mix them together, or knead with your fingers.
  1 teaspoon cardamom, 50 g all-purpose flour, 50 g sugar, 50 g butter
  
• Spread the crumble on top of the dough - there will be a lot of it.
  
• Finally, you can additionally sprinkle the top of the cake with chopped pistachios.
  approx 20 g pistachios
  

Step 4 - baking the cardamom cake

• Place the cake pan into a hot oven and bake for about an hour - check with a skewer to see if the cake is well baked inside.
• Cool the finished cake before serving.