PASSIONFRUIT SPONGE

Preheat your oven to 180 deg C . Spray 2 shallow 20 cm round cake pans and line them with baking paper . Dust lightly with flour and shake off excess flour . Sift to combine 1/3 cup of cornflour with 1/3 rd of plain flour along with 1/3 self raising flour ..Set aside . Using your electric beater , beat 4 eggs ( at room temp ) with 2 tsp of finely grated lemon rind ... until thick and pale ..about 5 minutes . Now gradually add 2/3 cup of caster sugar and mix until the mixture is pale , yellow and glossy . Now this is the important part , using a metal spoon ,GENTLY fold in the the flour mix ( do not beat ) Spread the mixture evenly into the pans . Bake for 15 minutes in the preheated oven until lightly golden and are pulling from the sides of the pans . Leave for 3 minutes before transferring to a wire rack to cool . To prepare the filling , use your electic beaters to beat 3/4 cup of cream until stiff peaks form . Spread the cream over 1 layer of the sponge cake . Place the remaining sponge layer on top . To prepare the passionfruit icing ..... Combine 1 and 1/4 cups of icing sugar with 15gm of softened butter / marg and 2 tbs of pasionfruit pulp ......and stir until the icing is smooth and glossy . Spread icing over the top of the sponge with a flat bladed knife .