Passion Fruit Pound Cake

Each time I write a new post, I can hear someone inside my head saying, I should post something savoury or a spicy dish. But the sweet lover in my always tend to post something sweet and I do have few spicy stuff to post even if they are made and the picture is taken some months ago.
Of course I am sure I will end up posting more sweet here as Shyama is comming home tonight from her college and she will be home for 2 weeks as they are having study holiday before the exams starts.
So my excuse of baking sweet would be she need fast energy which sugar as :-)

Now to the recipe, the moment I saw this in Swapna's place  I knew I was going to make them as I loved the flavours in them. She got the recipe from Deeba's place.We all loved it, really the cake was so good and the gace was just to die for it was so yumm.
And indeed the cake is much better the next day.
Divya as made with Manoes as it is season in India  and she too is going to post her mango version soon.

Ingredients:

1 1/2 cups plain flour
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 cup unsalted butter, room temperature
1 cup vanilla or plain sugar
2 eggs
100ml buttermilk {or substitute recipe below}
1 tsp pure vanilla extract
4 tbsp passion fruit pulp without seeds
Zest of 1 orange ( I didn't had orange so I added zest of grape fruit)

To make buttermilk substitute at home:

Take 100ml milk at room temp; add 1 tsp white vinegar. Let it stand 5-10 minutes. When it curdles, it’s ready.
Method:

•Grease and flour the sides of a loaf pan or 8″ ring tin, or a 6″ round tin. Line the bottom.
•Preheat the oven to 170C.
•Sift the flour with the baking powder, baking soda and salt. Reserve.
•Cream the butter and sugar. Beat in eggs one at a time, followed by the vanilla extract, passion fruit pulp and grapfruit  zest.

•With beater on low add the flour and buttermilk alternately in three lots.
•Bake for 50-60 minutes till golden brown on top, and the tester comes out clean.
•Meanwhile, make the glaze…

Passion Fruit Glaze

5 - 6 tbsp passion fruit pulp without seeds or as required ( I used a bit of the seeds)
1/2 cup powdered sugar
I added 1 tbsp of Egg White powder , it is optional but the glace gets hard which we love it here.

Method:

•Make the glazing by mixing together passion fruit pulp into the powdered sugar, stir till all lumps have dissolved. Add some more powdered sugar / pulp, until you get the required consistency.

•Pour the glaze evenly over the cooled cake, letting some drip over the sides. Wait for some time till it sets.