Coffee and cardamom cake with pistachio cream Archive

Ingredients

• 200g/7oz butter, softened, plus extra for greasing
• 200g/7oz caster sugar
• 4 free-range eggs
• 3 tbsp strong coffee
• 8 cardamom pods, seeds removed and ground
• 250g/9oz self-raising flour
• 250g/9fl oz double cream
• 1 tbsp icing sugar
• 5 cardamom pods, seeds removed and ground
• 60g/2½oz pistachios, shells removed, roughly chopped
• 110g/4oz icing sugar
• 1 tbsp warm coffee