Divine Butter Cake

I had another cake order the other day.

Butter cake with Passionfruit Icing.

I felt a little daring, having my new mix master and all!

The butter cake turned out abosolutely perfect! The recipe was given to me from a work college.

When she got married many moons ago, the book was given to her by her neighbour.

Hint Hint!

I tried a new trick when I cooked this cake. I placed a tent shaped piece of foil lightly over the top of the cake while it cooked. In the past, the tops of my cakes have been a bit hard and brown on top. The foil stopped this!

I'm not exactly sure how it works, but it was amazing

After the cake cooled. I sliced it into 3 layers. I was stressing so much!

I'd watched a youtube video of this pro chef doing it. I was terrified I would ruin it!

Luckily, I didn't. I didn't really have time to cook a whole new cake!

I lightly brushed each of the cakes with a sugar/water syrup wash. Hoping this would stop them from drying out.

The icing. Oh the icing!

The royal icing for the letters, was hard. I think it should have been a bit thicker.

First time though, so not too bad!

The buttercream was beautiful. Even my partner liked it and he hates passionfruit!

This was also my first time piping the shell border. I didn't think this through very well, as I used the buttercream from the top and added a bit of royal to thicken it.

Unfortunately this meant the seeds came with it.

So half way around piping, it stops.

Seed caught.

This happened ever 2-3 shells. I'd have to take the tip off, blast it with water to clear it, then try again.

But alas! The end result was perfect!

Unfortunately I don't have a picture of the layers. I'm sure they would have looked absolutely amazing. I was told the cake was gone in a matter of minutes - no time for a photo!