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 solely 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 all my favorite cocktails on the market and in cake kind?! Oh, my precise days!! My passionfruit martini cupcakes at all times go down effectively after 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 includes vodka, passionfruit liqueur, and prosecco if you happen to go down the p**nstar route. It’s in all probability one of the crucial standard cocktails on the market, and I’m completely happy to confess that I adore 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 mixture of passionfruit liqueur and prosecco to make my flavouring to get a bit of 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 come back 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 powerful 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 normally means I weigh medium-sized eggs for weight – and match the remainder of the elements. A number of individuals are very opinionated on whether or not that you must really do that, and no you don’t – however if you’re frightened, or simply need one of the best outcomes, it’s the easiest way of getting them. 

I normally beat unsalted butter or baking unfold with the sugar first to get it good and creamy. Then, I add in my flour and I sometimes use 9-10 medium eggs for a cake this measurement (sure I do know, it’s large, however it’s meant to be!). Combine this all in, and add some vanilla extract if you happen to 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 dimensions of the sponges, and also you need 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 muffins have baked and cooled, layer them, after which drizzle on the syrup. Let that scrumptious syrup soak in, and you may then embellish!

Frosting

The frosting on this cake is an American buttercream-style frosting due to the steadiness it gives. 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 a very good steadiness of flavour, but additionally it gives a sturdier buttercream which is so essential once you need to cowl a cake in it! 

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

Different forms of ornament contain making two-tone buttercream which you’ll be able to 100% do if you would like, however I beloved how this turned out because it was! The color is simply so fairly and excellent. 

Ornament

When you’re adorning a cake like this its significantly better to make use of a turntable, an angled palette knife, and a giant steel scraper to get the correct 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 lovely end. 

As a result of the frosting is a lovely 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 a bit of extra Passionfruit Martini like, and in addition I so simply love a drip cake as you all know. White chocolate drips are additionally tremendous simple 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 non-obligatory, and it doesn’t change the style in anyway. 

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

Ideas & Methods

When baking a cake like this, I do know it sounds silly, however you simply must 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 (non-obligatory)
• 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 mild and fluffy.

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

• Cut up the combination between the 2 tins.

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

• Depart the muffins 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 muffins have cooled, break up every cake into two so you might have 4 layers in whole.

• 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 effectively till clean and fluffy.

• Add within the cooled syrup from above and blend. Add a bit of 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 a bit of 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 clean across the cake sides and high for a crumb coat and add to the fridge for at the least half-hour.

• As soon as set, add extra buttercream onto the tops and sides of the cake, and clean round protecting the cake utterly in buttercream.

• I add the buttercream on utilizing a small angled spatula, and smoothed across the edge with the massive steel scraper! You’ll want to be certain that there’s extra buttercream on the edges of the cake than you want, as some will probably be eliminated as you clean it over.

• Add the white chocolate and double cream to a bowl/jug, and microwave till clean. 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 effectively to guard it within the freezer.
• Lemon curd works effectively if you cannot purchase passionfruit curd 
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