Since nobody has been able to jet off to Benidorm or any other exotic location this year, it’s time to bring the sun to us with this tropical traybake.
This orange and passionfruit cake will provide the sunny vibes, but if you really want to recreate the ‘Brit on holiday’ experience, then you’ll also need to do the following:
- wear a ridiculous tropical shirt (bonus points if it matches with the rest of your travel companions)
- get up at the crack of dawn to ‘save the sunbeds’
- burn to a crisp on the first day
- say it’s boiling at least 17 times a day
- learn how to say hello in the local language, then proceed to speak English
Before we get into the nitty gritty of the recipe, here is this week’s (very embarrassing) kitchen goss
Kitchen Goss
I can’t quite believe I’m exposing myself this much on KG, but this is too funny not to share.
So I recently rediscovered this voice memo I made in 2018 when I was revising for my chemistry A-level. I must’ve seen a pinterest thing on creative ways to revise or something, because something unholy possessed me to make a song about electrophilic addition.
Yes it’s to the tune of ‘These Words’ by Natasha Bedingfield
Yes it took me all day to write (and I couldn’t even make it rhyme)
Yes the full version of ‘Mechanisms Mix *flame*’ is available on soundcloud
I can’t bring myself to listen to the full thing, and safe to say I will never be doing that again.
Back to the bake…
Ingredients
- FOR THE CAKE
- 225g butter
- 225g caster sugar
- 4 eggs
- 225g self raising flour
- 1 orange – zested n juiced
- 1tsp vanilla extract
- FOR THE ICING
- 150g butter
- 300g icing sugar
- 3tbsp passionfruit curd (or adjust to your taste)
- 1tsp vanilla extract
- gel food colourings
Method
- whack your butter and shug in a bowl and beat until light and fluffy
- add eggos one at a time
- fold in flour, orange zest, vanilla and 3/4 of your orange juice (save the remaining quarter for icing time)
- Whack this in whichever tray tickles your pickle, make sure to grease and line it
- bake for 20-25 mins at 180C (or if your oven doesn’t have numbers on it like mine, then just take it out when it looks golden and a knife comes out clean when you poke it in)
- Whilst that’s cooling you can crack on with the icing
- whip up the butter and icing sugar
- add the orange juice and passionfruit curd to your taste (it can be quite zingy)
- if you want to decorate with painted buttercream flowers then split icing into bowls and add colourings of your choice (gel food colourings work best here)
- once the cake is cool, remove from the tin and spread over a base layer of icing
- Let this set up in the fridge – very important step otherwise going to be difficult to add more buttercream on top!
- once harder to the touch, get the cake out and get creative
- I ‘painted’ flowers onto mine, which is a technique I’ve been wanting to try out for ages, but go with whatever you feel looks fun n fresh
If you’re interested in how I decorated my traybake, then take a look at this very speedy vid below.
Thanks for reading, lots of luv, Han – KG x x x
The Soggy Bottom 
I’m sure I just heard your Mechanism’s Mix on Radio 2. You’ve made it to the big time!
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Haha I’ve made it!!
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That’s fantastic Hannah – your singing talent obviously comes from your dad 😂. Love the Contessa Mama xx 😉🤣
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Haha yep defo got it from him 😂
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Niceee
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Thank you so much x
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