Passion Fruit Cupcakes

After a trip to yet another food market on London's Southbank, I came back with a jar of the most delicious award-winning passion fruit curd from a stall called The Cherry Tree - website here: http://www.cherrytreepreserves.co.uk/.

Tart and sweet and bursting with tropical passion fruit flavours, I was dying to use it in some kind of baked good. So I did cupcakes. 24 of them.


Ingredients:

For the sponge:
8oz butter
8oz sugar
8oz self raising flour
4 eggs
2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp vanilla extract

For the icing:
300g tub of light cream cheese
juice of 4 passion fruits
250g icing sugar

Method:

1. Pre-heat oven to 160 fan/180 electric/gas mark 3
2. Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add one egg and 2 tablespoons of flour at a time until all combined
3. Add vanilla extract and baking powder and mix again until smooth. Add a glug of milk if the mixture looks a bit dry
4. Spoon a bit of the batter onto the bottom of the cupcake case, then a teaspoon of the curd, then top with another spoon of the sponge batter
5. Pop into oven for about 10-15 minutes
6. Once cooled, drizzle with the cream cheese icing