Mar 16, 20212 min read

Passion Fruit Cake

For the Cake I used half of my Vanilla Cake with oil recipe to make a vanilla cake . I replaced the orange zest with a tap of vanilla essence and also replaced half of the milk with Passion Fruit Squash in the vanilla cake recipe.Today I baked the vanilla cake in a 7” cake pan and it took around 40-45 minutes to bake.

Vanilla Cake (with oil)

1.All purpose flour-3 cups

Baking powder-2 1/2 tsp

Salt-1/2 tsp

Sieve together all the above ingredients and set aside .

2.Eggs—4

Granulated Sugar-2 cup

Vanilla essence-1 1/2 tsp

Nutmeg-1 tsp

Lemon/Orange zest-1 tsp

Powder the sugar .Beat all the above ingredients together till sugar is dissolved.

3.Milk-160 ml

Canola/Vegetable oil-160 ml

Fold in the flour mixture in 3 additions and milk & oil mixture in 2 additions-starting and ending with flour mixture.

Transfer the batter into two 8” round pans and bake in a preheated oven at 180 C for 22-25 minutes until a skewer inserted at the center comes out clean.Mine was done in exactly 24 minutes.

For the Passion Fruit Cake Frosting

1.For the Passion Fruit Glaze

Passion Fruit Syrup-1/4 cup(I used homemade Passion fruit Squash/syrup for this.u can use juice from a Passion fruit instead)

Corn flour-3 tbsps

Sugar-3-4 tbsps

Water-2-4 tbsps

Mix together all the above ingredients in a pan and heat it.Bring to boil while continuously stirring and let it simmer till it thickens a bit.Remove and set this aside to cool. The mixture thickens once cooled to room temperature.

2.For the Frosting

Whipping cream-2 cups

I used Mactop non dairy whipping cream . If you are using a dairy whipping cream add sugar and beat it’s well whipped .

3.For the soaking syrup

Passion fruit Squash-1/2 cup

Water-1/2 cup

Mix together the squash and water. This is the soaking syrup I used to soak the cake layers.

I sliced the cake into 3 layers.

Place the cake board onto the cake stand and spread a thin layer of whipped cream onto the center and spread it and then place the first layer of cake so that the cake doesn’t move while frosting.

Sprinkle the soaking syrup on the cake and then spread 1/4 th of the whipped cream over the first cake layer and spread it evenly with a palate knife.Repeat this process for the second and third layers too.

Frost the top and sides of the cake and smoothen the edges with a scraper or palate knife.Refrigerate this cake for an hour.

Remove the cake and spread some more whipped cream over it and smoothen the edges.

Transfer the remaining whipped cream into a piping bag,with star nozzle attached to it.Pipe some stars to make borders to the bottom of the cake.

Spoon the required glaze on the top and spread it evenly with the palate knife .Make dripping effect onto the sides of the cake by spooning the glaze on the top edges of the cake.

Decorate the top of the cake with whipped cream flowers or shells or curls to make borders on top too.Refrigerate the cake overnight for the flavors to soak in.

Passion Fruit Cake is ready.