Baking

Passionfruit and lemon syrup cake

Sweet, moist and utterly luscious.
passionfruit and lemon syrup cake
8
1H 30M

Smothered in fresh passionfruit and dripping with syrup, this passionfruit and lemon drizzle cake is rich, sweet and tart. Serve warm with double cream on the side.

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Ingredients

Lemon syrup

Method

1.Preheat oven to 180°C/350°F. Grease and lightly flour a 24cm bundt pan (see tip).
2.Strain passionfruit over a medium jug; reserve juice for cake mixture, and seeds for lemon syrup.
3.Beat butter, rind and sugar in a small bowl with an electric mixer until light and fluffy. Beat in eggs, one at a time. Transfer mixture to a large bowl; fold in combined buttermilk and reserved passionfruit juice, and the sifted flour in two batches. Spread mixture into pan.
4.Bake cake for 1 hour or until a skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean. Leave cake in pan for 5 minutes before turning onto a wire rack placed over a tray.
5.Meanwhile, make lemon syrup. Place sugar, lemon juice, the water and half the reserved passionfruit seeds (discard remaining seeds or freeze for another use) in a small saucepan; stir over heat, without boiling, until sugar dissolves. Simmer, uncovered, without stirring, for 5 minutes.
6.Pour hot syrup over hot cake; serve cake warm.

You will need about nine passionfruit for this recipe.

You can also make the cake in a greased and lined deep 22cm (9in) round cake pan or a buttered and floured 21cm (8½in) baba cake pan.

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