Passionfruit Sponge Cake with Chantilly Cream
A classic cake perfect for birthday celebrations or a simple morning tea!
Servings 8 people
Ingredients
Sponge cake
- 4 eggs
- 2/3 cup caster sugar
- 1/3 cup SR flour
- 1/3 cup plain flour
- 1/3 cup corn flour
Chantilly cream
- 200 mL Thickened cream
- 2 tbsp icing sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla
Passionfruit icing
- 1 cup icing sugar
- 3 small passionfruit’s
- 50 g butter softened
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 180C and line the base of two round 20cm cake tins with baking paper, grease the side with spray oil.
- Beat the eggs with electric beaters until light and fluffy (about 10minand then slowly beat the caster sugar in 1tbsp at a time.
- Combine the flours and sift 3 times to ensure it is light and aerated. Carefully fold the flour into the egg mixture ensuring not to deflate the eggs. Gently pour the mixture into your baking tins.
- Bake in the oven for 15-17mins. Remove from the oven and allow to cool for 5min and then flip it out onto a wire rack covered in baking paper. Allow to cool completely.
- Make the Chantilly cream. Combine the cream, icing sugar and vanilla and then beat with electric beaters for 2-3min until soft peaks form in the cream!
- Make the passionfruit icing. Rub the softened butter into the icing sugar and then add in the pulp of the passionfruit into the icing sugar to form a thick icing.
- Assembly: Place one sponge cake on a plate, top it with the Chantilly cream and then place the other cake on top and gently press it down. Spread the top of the cake with the passionfruit icing, allowing it to drop down slightly on the sides.