Passionfruit and Lemon cake recipe

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So had the most divine passionfruit and lemon cake today at Cafe Twit in the Roald Dahl Museum. I have to make it. A very large one. Having a big do next weekend, great excuse.

It was a mahoosive sandwich cake and the passionfruit seemed to be infused into the sponge as well as the icing. The icing was lemon buttercream I think but def had passionfruit in too, with some seeds. I could take a guess at it using a lemon cake recipe a base but does anyone have a recipe or any suggestions how I'd make it please?

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Hi TC do you have a copy of nigella's 'domestic goddess'?
there's a victoria sponge recipe in there which includes a passionfruit variant which sounds rather lush and squidgy
she also has a passionfruit curd recipe
let me know if you can't find them and i will post them for you

That sounds delicious taffy, hope you find it.

blonde yes I do

It does sound lovely but its somewhat different, being essentially a passionfruit fool in a Viccy sponge. This cake was more a really damp lemon and passionfruit sponge with a lemon and passionfruit buttercream. I am comfortable doing a lemon only version but am unsure how much pulp and or juice to add to sponge and icing to make it passionfruit-y.

Calling cake ladies! I know you are out there! Please help me!

Cake help pleeeeeease!

Last try for a cake expert to help!

If not, shall make up recipe and hope for the best

< determined, wild eyed, who cares about the waste of butter, eggs etc mwahahaha >

Right, I will compromise and make a normal size one. I have a lemon drizzle recipe for an 8inch cake tin, the question is whether I make this and just slice in half horizontally when cold or up the quantities a bit and do 2 x sandwich tins?

I am thinking:
4oz butter
2 large eggs
6oz caster sugar
6oz self raising flour
zest of a lemon
juice ( no seeds ) of passionfruit equiv to 4 tbspns

Drizzle when warm with icing sugar, lemon and passionfruit juice.

Then sandwich ( poss ) and ice all over when cold with lemon passionfruit (incl seeds ) buttercream icing.

Any thoughts on this?

I would be inclined to blend the passion fruit rather than get the juice, I think you'll get more of the flavour that way.

Sounds lovely!

I make a rather yummy one which is essentially a lemon victoria sponge with lemon curd, whipped cream and passion fruit juice seeds in the middle, you could try that. Also there is a supplier somewhere who sells passion fruit puree in a kind of pouch. I'll see if I can find out where I get it from, but tis lovely drizzled over the lemon sponge.

Blending is a great idea ib thank you.

Hilda - now there's a good alternative. I may have to do that for another occasion. This time round its for a party so need something easy to slice and I am hopeless at slicing viccy sponges with cream in.....

so how did your cake turn out? Care to share the recipe??

well I have made the cakes today, they look good and smell yum. Making icing tomorrow, for consumption Sat. will update!

Oh yes dying to know how they taste. I'm fancying a banana cake with passionfruit icing too.

mwahhahaha

tis made.

I went a bit loopy with the excitement and forgot it was supposed to be a drizzle and ended up making a lemon and passionfruit version of Florence's Orange Cake from Rachel Allen's bake but forgot to drizzle it whilst hot.

So I heated up some lemon zest, lemon juice, passionfruit juice and icing sugar and made some holes in cold cake and then drizzled over with hot mix.

I've sandwiched and iced all over with a buttercream made from butter, icing sugar, lemon zest, lemon oil and passionfruit pulp and seeds. I have taste tested the icing, natch.

Will update once cake devoured tomorrow.

It was gooooooooood!

However, if I were going to do it again, and had more time, I would drizzle some passionfruit pulp over the cake just before serving it.