Catrin Thomas
calendar Thursday, 31 March 2022
Passion fruit cake and coconut crumble
Ingredients
- 250g soft butter
- 250g caster sugar
- 4 passion fruit, halved
- 1 tbsp Vanilla bean paste
- 5 eggs
- 250g self raising flour
- Zest of 1 orange
Crumble topping:
- 30g butter
- 30g plain flour
- 30g coconut
- 20g caster sugar
Mascarpone cream:
- 250g mascarpone
- 30g icing sugar
- 2 passion fruit, halved
Method
- Line a 20cm tin with parchment paper.
- Use a spoon and scope out the 4 passion fruits and sieve into a bowl. Discard the seeds and keep the juice.
- Whisk the butter, sugar and vanilla until fluffy.
- Best in the egg, 1 at the time.
- Then the passion fruit juice, flour and the zest of the orange.
- Spoon into the tin.
- Rub together the butter, flour until clumpy.
- Add the coconut and sugar. Sprinkle on top of the cake and bake for 1 hour.
- Leave to cool.
- Make the frosting by creaming the mascarpone and icing sugar together with the juice of the orange and the pulp of 2 passion fruits.
- Cut the cake in half horizontally and spread over thdd we cake. Place the other half on top and sprinkle with icing sugar.
- Enjoy.
Recipe by Catrin Thomas, originally featured on Prynhawn Da.
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