Passion Fruit Cake

This is another dairy-free cake recipe that I gotcd from my Mom in Brazil. In Edmonton we can find frozen passion-fruit pulp at Paraíso Tropical, which is perfect for this cake. Make sure to bake the cake until a toothpick inserted in the middle comes clean so that it will not collapse later. Fro a dinner party, serve this cake with some Passion Fruit Curd.

Ingredients:

 

• 5 eggs
• 100 grams of unsalted butter
• 2 cups os sugar (350 grams)
• 2 1/2 cups of flour (300 grams)
• 1 Tablespoon of baking powder
• 1 cup of unsweetened passion-fruit juice
• 1/4 teaspoon of salt

Syrup Ingredients:

 

• 1 cup of sugar
• 1 cup of unsweetened passion-fruit juice

Procedure:

 

• Preheat oven to 350 F
• Spray a tube pan and pulverize it with sugar.
• Separate the eggs putting the egg whites in the bowl of a mixer and the yolks in a large mixing bowl.
• Using a whisk mix the egg yolks with the sugar.
• Add the passion-fruit juice to the yolks.
• Using a strainer, sift the flour and the baking powder onto the yolks and juice mix, in several batches, slowly mixing to avoid lumps.
• Beat the egg whites to soft peaks.
• Dump the beaten egg whites into the batter and slowly fold with the whisk until homogeneous but not over mixed.
• Pour in the prepared tube pan.
• Bake until a toothpick inserted in the middle of the cake comes out clean.
• While it is baking, make a sirup by dumping the one cup of sugar on the centre of the bottom of a clean small saucepan. Pour the passion-fruit juice around the sugar and bring to a boil. This should be a thin syrup.
• Once the cake is baked, make several holes on the top with a toothpick and then pour the very warm syrup all over the cake.
• Let it cool slightly, but not for too long so that the syrup does not stick too hard to the pan.
• Run a sharp knife all over the pan to loosen it. Remove from the pan.