Friday, January 25

Passionfruit EVOO Cake with passionfruit glaze & toasted coconut

My favourite flavour to bake with is citrus! This passionfruit loaf cake makes for one delightful afternoon treat. If it's not passion-fruit enough for you, the passionfruit glaze not only zings things up for creates a lovely moist cake right down to the last crumb.



Ingredients
Makes 1 loaf cake

  • Butter or oil, for greasing the pan
  • 1 cup all-purpose flour, plus more for the pan
  • 1/2 cup sugar
  • 3 eggs
  • 1/3 cup olive oil
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • 6 TBSP passionfruit pulp (around 3 passionfruits)
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt 

Icing/ frosting:

  • 1 cup of sifted icing sugar
  • 3 TBSP passion fruit juice/pulp
  • 3 TBSP desiccated coconut, toasted

Instructions

  1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Grease and flour a loaf cake pan. 
  2. Mix together the sugar and eggs in a medium bowl with a hand mixer on medium speed until blended and light.
  3. Drizzle in the olive oil and vanilla and mix until light and smooth.
  4. Add the passionfruit pulp and mix well.
  5. Sift together the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt in another medium bowl. Add the flour mixture half at a time to the wet ingredients and mix on low just to incorporate.
  6. Pour into the prepared cake pan and bake, 30 minutes. Let the cake cool 20 minutes before adding the glaze and toasted coconut. 
  7. Whisk the confectioner's sugar and passion fruit pulp together until you have a thick, pourable glaze. Add more passion fruit as required to thin out the glaze, or more confectioner's sugar to thicken the glaze.

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