lemon cake with passionfruit syrup II

lemon cake with passionfruit syrup II

5 Sept 2011

I made a version of this cake a few months ago and I wasn't happy with the result. I made the cake again, this time using my favourite lemon cake recipe (it's on the last page of the pdf) and making up my own recipe for passionfruit syrup.



The cake came out of the mould perfectly so I was pretty happy.



I poured half the syrup over the cake whilst it was still in the mould and poured the other half over the cake while it was cooling.



I took the cake into work and it was all gone by the end of the day. One of my workmates Michael dillied and dallied and missed out on a slice and you should have heard his grumbles. So many people came up to me complimenting me on the cake so I'll definitely be making this cake again.

I hope you all had lovely weekends. I went to see the movie 'Red Dog' which I thoroughly enjoyed but then again our family dog dog was a kelpie labrador cross, called Coco, so I'm a bit biased. Sometimes we called her by name but more often we called her 'naughtybadwicked' which was a truer reflection of her nature.

See you all again on Wednesday,

Jillian

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lemon cake with passionfruit syrup

lemon cake with passionfruit syrup

18 Apr 2011

I did so much cooking this past weekend I really had trouble trying to decide what to post today. I made this cake last weekend 'cos I wanted to try out my star shaped tin again. I do have a bit of a thing about passionfruit and I have plans to make a passionfruit layer cake. It's is on my 'to make' list that's on the kitchen chalkboard. I was wondering if this recipe would provide the basis for the cake.

It's a Donna Hay recipe and I have to say I don't always have great success with her recipes. I just made the cake from Donna's recipe but used a Bill Granger recipe for the passionfruit syrup.

I halved the recipe but there was still a little too much batter for the tin so I made a cupcake for the cook and took the cake into work. The recipe made a lot of syrup so I poured some of the syrup over the cake while still in the tin.

The cake was consumed so that's a good thing but the cake rose more than I expected, way too much for a layer cake. Next time I think I'll use my regular lemon cake recipe with the addition of the passionfruit syrup, which was delicious!

As both Passover and Easter are celebrated this week I'll be back later in the week with some foods representing both celebrations.

So until then,

Jillian

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