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Look at this cake!!!! It’s the Strawberry-Glazed Passionfruit Cake from Yossy Arefi’s Snacking Cakes, which I’ve decided that I’m simply going to bake all the way through. 

The cake itself needed to be baked to the full time suggestion: 35 minutes. I’m finding that my oven definitely runs a little bit cold, so those extra five minutes were key. Not a lot of rise on this one, perhaps because of the fruit puree inside, but maybe it’s technically a shortcake? I don’t know! It isn’t as airy as my last two snacking cakes, but it is VERY light and flavorful. The passionfruit comes through beautifully. 

And the freeze-dried strawberries in the icing… wow. This is the first icing I’ve ever made. Have always thought it was unnecessary to have more sugar on top your dessert, but my god.. I think I’ve been turned. That color is all natural. It lends such a beautiful fruity tartness and those little chewy chunks you see… *chefs kiss* 

This might just be my new favorite bake. It’s probably going to last three days in my apartment. I would totally double this recipe and make it a layer cake. It is that good. I will plan to do that to bring along when I reunite with my friends again, I think it would be so cute.

The week before this one, I actually baked her Simple Sesame Cake (sans sesame seeds), but I left it nakedly un-iced, so it ended up looking exactly like the Coconut-Lime Cake. So that’s why I didn’t document it here, lol. I was also too stressed and bedraggled at the end of my workday to take a proper picture of it. Tasted exquisite, though! Like a cross between a light and fluffy peanut butter cake and a sugar cookie.