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Chocolate Chip Pistachio Pound Cake : A Baking Fail

  If you've been reading along with this blog for a while, you may recognise that Chocolate Chips and Pistachios are two of my favourite ingredients. Chocolate Chips have featured in some of my favourite recipes, such as Chocolate Chip Marble Cake and Chocolate Chip Cookies . Pistachios have made an appearance in Pistachio Macarons and Cranberry and Pistachio Biscotti.  So for me, to find a recipe that combines both is a Very Good Thing indeed. One of my newer cookery book acquisitions had just such a recipe, and I thought you might like to hear about it. However, it's a brilliant example that in baking things can go wrong, too!  First though, I should explain that a few years back, I discovered Food Network on our cable box. Sooo, fast forward a few years and I am now in the midst of a love affair with Americana, especially baking (I suspect I am not alone if the proliferation of US style bakeries in the UK is anything to go...