Orange and Passionfruit are excellent together, and luckily for me, my passionfruit vine has been putting out some great fruit, so lets make a cake!
Orange and Passionfruit Cake
A simple Orange and Passionfruit cake
Servings: 8
Calories: 486kcal
Ingredients
Cake
- 125 g butter
- 175 g caster sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 Orange (zested and juiced)
- 225 g Self Raising Flour Sifted
- 250 ml Milk
Icing
- 2 Passionfruit
- 30 g butter
- 2 tsp Orange juice
- 200 g Icing Sugar
Instructions
Cake
- Pre-heat oven to 180°C, Grease and 20cm (8inch) spring form tin or loaf tin
- Cream butter and sugar together until light and fluffy
- Add eggs one at a time, beating continuously. Add orange zest
- Alternate adding flour and milk in batches, beating on low speed continuously, until just combined
- Pour batter into prepared tin, bake for 45 minutes or until skewer comes out clean. Leave to cool completely before Icing
Icing
- Melt butter
- Open passionfruit and put pulp through a sieve, leaving the juice
- add juices to the butter and combine
- slowly add icing sugar until the desired consistency is reached (I want a thick icing so I'll take it pretty far)
Nutrition
Calories: 486kcal | Carbohydrates: 76g | Protein: 7g | Fat: 19g | Saturated Fat: 11g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 5g | Trans Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 86mg | Sodium: 160mg | Potassium: 204mg | Fiber: 3g | Sugar: 52g | Vitamin A: 907IU | Vitamin C: 16mg | Calcium: 64mg | Iron: 1mg
