Pineapple and Kiwi Fruit Cake

It was DH's b'day yesterday. Looking at how soon the last cake got over in the house, I got inspired to bake yet another one. All thanks to DH and DD for liking my first attempt so much. I promised you I would be back again soon with another attempt :-)
Kiwis on top of a cake always tempts me, so i decided to make a fruit cake this time.

Ingredients:
Sponge
Eggs - 8
Powdered Sugar - 1 1/2 cup
Flour - 1 1/2 cup
Baking powder - 1tsp
Salt - 1 pinch
Vanilla Essence/Extract - 1 tsp
Pineapple Essence/Extract - 1 tsp

Filling/Topping:
Whipping Cream - 1 cup
Sugar - 1/4 cup (increase if desired)
Pineapple Essence/Extract - 1 tsp
Pineapple - 1 cup of chopped bits
Kiwi - 1

Method:
For the sponge cake
Preheat oven to 380F.
Grease and line a cake pan.
Sift the flour + baking powder + salt + cornflour.

Beat the eggs and sugar well with beater (beat for approx 10mins)
Add vanilla essence + pineapple essence and beat for 1 min.
Gently fold in the sifted flour; mix lightly so that air doesnt escape.
Turn gently into tin and bake for 30-35mins till done.
Once done, remove from tin after 5 mins and leave on rack to cool completely. Cut horizontally into 3 layers.

Note: If the sponge is not soft and moist, sprinkle the first 2 layers with 1/4 cup of a mixture of the pineapple syrup and sugar syrup.

Filling:
Chop the pineapple bits into tiny pieces, chop the kiwi into thin slices and reserve some pieces for the topping.
Whip the cream with sugar + 1 tsp pineapple essence until thick and holds peaks.
Reserve 1/2 for icing the top.

Take about 1/4 cream and colour it with yellow food colour.

Place the bottom most layer of the sponge on your serving platter, spread 1/2 of the whipped cream and bits over it.
Place the middle layer over this, and repeat with the rest of the fruit cream and put kiwis in this layer.

Topping:
Spread the remaining cream over the top and sides of the cake.
Pipe a decoration with the coloured yellow cream from a zipbag with the corner snipped.
Pipe a border with the coloured cream. I made a pattern and put kiwi bits on the top.

Chill well before serving.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Now that I learnt how to decorate the cake, I need to learn how to post a better picture ... sigh!!