Passionfruit Martini Cake! – Jane’s Patisserie

A four-layer passionfruit martini cake with passionfruit martini soaked vanilla sponges, passionfruit curd, and much more! 

Ohhh HELLO THERE passionfruit martini cake! The place have you ever been all of my life?! Genuinely, far too excited to share this cake as I’m fully obsessed and in love with it – and also you guys have demanded the recipe for ages now, SO HERE IT IS! 

I’ve wished to make a bake like this for as long as a passionfruit martini is by far one in every of my favorite cocktails on the market and in cake kind?! Oh, my precise days!! My passionfruit martini cupcakes all the time go down nicely once I share them, so this cake goes to blow your thoughts! 

Passionfruit Martini

So whether or not you name it a passionfruit martini or a p**nstar martini (which do have slight variations), they’re each scrumptious. Usually entails vodka, passionfruit liqueur, and prosecco in case you go down the p**nstar route. It’s in all probability one of the crucial well-liked cocktails on the market, and I’m blissful to confess that I like it!

I really like something passionfruit flavoured, it’s simply so good! I wished to get that flavour throughout on this bake, so I used a mix of passionfruit liqueur and prosecco to make my flavouring to get just a little little bit of deliciousness throughout – I didn’t really feel the necessity for the vodka on this event as I actually wished to passionfruit to return by. 

I made a syrup by mixing collectively the liqueur, prosecco and caster sugar. I simmered this and stirred to dissolve the sugar, after which boiled the syrup down till it was diminished by over half, thicker and robust in flavour. That is used to soak the sponges barely, and in addition flavour the frosting. 

Cake

As I used to be making a four-layer 8″ cake, I went for a 500g mixture of cake. This often means I weigh medium-sized eggs for weight – and match the remainder of the substances. Plenty of individuals are very opinionated on whether or not that you must truly do that, and no you don’t – however if you’re anxious, or simply need the perfect outcomes, it’s one of the best ways of getting them. 

I often beat unsalted butter or baking unfold with the sugar first to get it good and creamy. Then, I add in my flour and I usually use 9-10 medium eggs for a cake this dimension (sure I do know, it’s big, nevertheless it’s meant to be!). Combine this all in, and add some vanilla extract in case you fancy! Passionfruit martinis do are likely to have vanilla in, so it really works. 

Cut up the cake combine between two 8″ cake tins like these ones, and bake on a decrease and slower bake. Due to the scale of the sponges, and also you wish to get two layers out of every, they’re deep. The decrease and slower technique means a softer and extra scrumptious sponge with a extra even bake! 

As soon as the desserts have baked and cooled, layer them, after which drizzle on the syrup. Let that scrumptious syrup soak in, and you’ll then embellish!

Frosting

The frosting on this cake is an American buttercream-style frosting due to the steadiness it offers. It’s a easy mixture of BLOCK UNSALTED BUTTER, no spreads of margarine right here, after which icing sugar. The ratio utilized in that is 1:2 of butter:sugar so that you’ve stability of flavour, but in addition it offers a sturdier buttercream which is so essential once you wish to cowl a cake in it! 

To color the frosting I used just a little peach meals colouring as a result of it gave it extra of a passionfruit colouring, but in addition I used the remainder of the passionfruit and prosecco syrup I had made to provide a candy flavour to the frosting. 

Different sorts of ornament contain making two-tone buttercream which you’ll be able to 100% do in order for you, however I liked how this turned out because it was! The color is simply so fairly and ideal. 

Ornament

If you find yourself adorning a cake like this its a lot better to make use of a turntable, an angled palette knife, and a giant steel scraper to get the appropriate finish outcome. The method of smoothing the buttercream across the cake utilizing the palette knife, and ending it off with a metals scraper will get probably the most stunning end. 

As a result of the frosting is a stunning peach color I wished to distinction with a white chocolate drip, and I’m so glad I did! The color distinction is what makes it look just a little extra Passionfruit Martini like, and in addition I so simply love a drip cake as you all know. White chocolate drips are additionally tremendous straightforward with 3:1 chocolate to cream. 

I whitened my white chocolate drip utilizing some white meals colouring as white chocolate ganache is of course fairly yellow, simply to take the sting off. That is clearly elective, and it doesn’t change the style in any way. 

I used leftover buttercream to pipe onto the cake with my favorite piping tip as all the time. I discover randomly piping like I’ve on this cake usually appears actually spectacular and creates a showstopper as soon as topped with sprinkles and different ornament just like the passionfruit segments. 

Ideas & Tips

When baking a cake like this, I do know it sounds silly, however you simply have to have enjoyable with it! I definitely did. Layers of buttercream, passionfruit curd, syrup soaked cake and so forth and so forth is the dream. 

You would possibly want:

Cake

• 500 g unsalted butter
• 500 g caster sugar
• 500 g self-raising flour
• 9 medium eggs
• 2 tsp vanilla extract

Syrup

• 200 ml ardour fruit liqueur
• 200 ml prosecco
• 200 g caster sugar

Buttercream

• 500 g unsalted butter
• 1000 g icing sugar
• 3 tbsp syrup (recipe above)
• 1/2-1 tsp peach meals colouring

Ornament

• 250 g passionfruit curd (or lemon)
• 150 g white chocolate
• 50 ml double cream
• white meals colouring (elective)
• 3 passionfruit
• sprinkles

Cake

• Preheat your oven to 170C/150 Fan, and line two 8″/20cm cake tins with baking parchment.

• In a stand mixer, or a big bowl, beat collectively the unsalted butter and caster sugar till gentle and fluffy.

• Add within the eggs, self elevating flour, and vanilla and beat once more till mixed nicely. 

• Cut up the combination between the 2 tins.

• Bake the desserts within the oven for 50-60 minutes, or till baked by – verify with a skewer to verify they’re carried out! 

• Depart the desserts to chill within the tins for 10 minutes, after which take out and depart to chill totally on a wire rack!.

Syrup

• Add the passionfruit liqueur, prosecco and caster sugar to a pan.

• Warmth on a low warmth and stir to dissolve the caster sugar

• Flip the warmth up excessive and cut back the liquid till it thickens, is syrup like, and diminished by half.

• As soon as your desserts have cooled, break up every cake into two so you’ve 4 layers in complete.

• Drizzle the diminished syrup over the sponges, leaving sufficient for the buttercream later.

Buttercream

• Beat the unsalted butter by itself for minute or two, to melt it and loosen it. 

• Add within the icing sugar and beat nicely till easy and fluffy.

• Add within the cooled syrup from above and blend. Add just a little meals colouring at a time and beat till you attain the color that you’re after.

Ornament

• Put the primary cake onto a cake board of plate. Add just a little buttercream and unfold, and unfold some passionfruit curd into the center. Repeat with the second and third sponges. Add the ultimate sponge on high.

• Utilizing a small quantity of buttercream, unfold and easy across the cake sides and high for a crumb coat and add to the fridge for a minimum of half-hour.

• As soon as set, add extra buttercream onto the tops and sides of the cake, and easy round overlaying the cake fully in buttercream.

• I add the buttercream on utilizing a small angled spatula, and smoothed across the edge with the big steel scraper! That you must make sure that there may be extra buttercream on the edges of the cake than you want, as some can be eliminated as you easy it over.

• Add the white chocolate and double cream to a bowl/jug, and microwave till easy. Add white meals colouring if you wish to and stir.

• Utilizing a small piping bag or a teaspoon, drip the ganache down the edges of the cake. The extra you push over the sting, the additional the drip will fall.

• Pipe any leftover buttercream onto the cake to brighten and embellish with passionfruit, sprinkles and so forth!

• This cake will final for 3+ days. 
• The cake will freeze for 3+ months if wrapped nicely to guard it within the freezer.
• Lemon curd works nicely if you cannot purchase passionfruit curd 
• You would possibly want:

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