December 27, 2021
Passionfruit Martini Cupcakes!
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Easy and delicious passionfruit martini cupcakes with a vodka soaked passion fruit curd stuffed cupcake, vodka buttercream frosting, passion fruit and prosecco!
New Years!
It’s post Christmas, and I am in the mood for a party – because it’s nearly New Years eve! For this years New Years eve bake I have gone down the line of one of my favourite drinks in the world (because I am extremely basic) – a passionfruit martini in cupcake form… so here are my passionfruit martini cupcakes!
A passionfruit martini if you don’t already know is usually a mix of vodka, passion fruit liqueur, sugar syrup, lime, passion fruit and prosecco. These ingredients can change and vary depending on your point of view, or recipe you use, however.
Passionfruit martini
I love a passionfruit martini as passionfruit is one of my favourite flavours in the world – I don’t know why I love it so much, other than it being DELICIOUS. A passionfruit martini is, usually, the cocktail I will order at any place I go. I tend to panic and order one as it’s usually pretty safe.
This recipe for these passionfruit martini cupcakes is utterly delicious – and finally another bake with a kick! My gin & tonic bakes are always a hit with you guys – but I thought I might as well expand the selection that is perfect for something like NYE. But one thing I will say, these are not kid friendly.
Cupcakes
For the cupcakes, I went for an easy cupcake recipe. It is just a plain sponge – with butter, caster sugar, self raising flour and eggs. Four ingredients makes something delicious – and it’s so easy! I naturally use a baking spread for the cupcake mix as it creates a beautiful bake – and the eggs, flour and caster sugar are just standard.
Once baked into the beautiful baking cups I chose, and fresh out of the oven, I spooned over some vodka. This naturally soaked into the sponges as they cooled. I then cored out some of the cupcake to add in some passionfruit curd. This is utterly optional, but who doesn’t love an extra passionfruit flavour?!
Buttercream
For the buttercream frosting I followed a similar idea to my gin & tonic cupcakes, but obviously with vodka! If you wanted to have a Prosecco hit, you can try and add it here using a Prosecco syrup (boiling down Prosecco and sugar to a syrup) – but I just went straight with the vodka.
You can use a passionfruit syrup or liqueur if you wanted – but you don’t want to overkill on the liquid. You MUST use block unsalted butter and not a baking spread or margarine of any kind. You need to make sure to use this otherwise you will end up with buttercream soup!
Alcohol
You can obviously make these child friendly by removing the vodka – a fairly obvious suggestion – but honestly, just leave it out! It’s not needed if you want these cupcakes alcohol free. You do not need to replace the vodka with anything else either! So easy, and still just as delicious.
If you did want something still fruity but more child friendly without changing anything, its best to check out my recipes such as neapolitan cupcakes which kids tend to always find fun! I personally love the carrot patch cupcakes all year round because who doesn’t love a chocolate coated strawberry on top of a cupcake!
Decoration
For the decoration, I decided to go a little overboard as these are meant to be celebration cupcakes, and used some edible gold glitter spray, a bit of a gold straw for decoration, and I used some small pipettes to add a mini ‘shot’ of prosecco to each cupcake.
My decoration is always optional, but I like to fit the theme! If you want to use something else instead of the prosecco in the pipettes then go for it! I also used a quarter of a passionfruit per cupcake as they usually do feature in the cocktail itself! I thought half a passionfruit may be too large, but its entirely up to you!! Enjoy this recipe – and have a safe and happy New Years!! x
Passionfruit Martini Cupcakes!
Ingredients
Cupcakes
- 200 g unsalted butter
- 200 g caster sugar
- 4 medium eggs
- 200 g self raising flour
- 150 ml vodka
- 100 g passionfruit curd
Decoration
- 200 g unsalted butter (room temp)(not stork)
- 400 g icing sugar
- 50-100 ml vodka
- 4 passionfruit (cut into quarters)
- 60 ml prosecco
- sprinkles/glitter
Instructions
Cupcakes
- Preheat the oven to 180ºC/160ºC fan and prep 12 muffin size cupcake cases or baking cups.
- Beat the unsalted butter/stork with the caster sugar until light and fluffy.
- Combine the eggs and self-raising flour with the butter/sugar mix until well combined. It won’t take too long to mix!
- Spoon the mix into the cupcake cases evenly and bake in the oven for 18-20 minutes or until a skewer poked into one of the cakes comes out clean and they are springy to touch.
- Once out of the oven, drizzle over 1tbsp of vodka per cupcake - let the cupcakes cool fully.
- Once cooled, core out the middle of each cupcake and add a spoonful of passionfruit curd.
Buttercream
- Beat the unsalted butter with an electric mixer for a couple of minutes to loosen it – gradually beat in the icing sugar until well combined.
- Add the vodka to the buttercream one spoonful at a time, beating well each time. This buttercream can be naturally a bit softer so it's important to use block unsalted butter and not a spread.
Decoration
- Pipe the buttercream onto the cupcakes in swirls - I used a 2d closed star piping tip.
- I sprinkled some edible gold glitter onto the cupcakes, and then inserted a pipette with some prosecco in.
- I then added a quarter of a passionfruit per cupcake, and part of a gold straw for looks.
Notes
- These cupcakes will last for 3+ days at room temp
- You can freeze these cupcakes for 3+ months
- The vodka is optional - you can just leave it out.
- You can swap the vodka for passionfruit liqueur if you want, or more prosecco.
- I used these beautiful baking cups
- I used these pipettes for the prosecco (if you want alcohol free, you can use passionfruit juice or something similar!)
- I used this piping tip for the decoration.
- I also coloured my frosting slightly with a dab of orange and yellow food colouring, but this is entirely optional.
ENJOY!
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I made these for my friends birthday….wow!!!! They look and taste simply amazing. I will be making these again and again and again!!! I put mango and passion fruit gin in the pipettes 😋 My kids were desperate to have one (to be fair it is good fun squeezing the pipettes into the cake 🤣) so I tried a non alcoholic version using mango and passion fruit smoothie in the pipettes and they turned out quite well 👌🏻
Hey Jane! Lovely recipe (as always!) I’m hoping to make these for xmas. I’m making 24 cupcakes. Can i just double the recipe (including the eggs?) Would this work or would you recommend anyone else? Thanks!
Yes, I would just double!
Hi, these look amazing!! It is my sisters 21st birthday coming up so I was wondering if this can be made into a cake?? If so, what would the recipe be?? Thank you!!
Hi Jane I am making these for my fiancé’s birthday! Quick question, can I make the cakes today will they last until tomorrow evening and still be fresh if I keep them in an air tight container?! Maybe I could add the Prosecco and passion fruit tomorrow morning?
Yes this should work fine! Enjoy! x
These look amazing. I can’t wait to make them.
How could I make the buttercream passion fruit flavour too without ruining the consistency?
Do you think it would be too much flavour considering the curd in centre too? (I’m not sure too much passion fruit is a thing though 😊)
Thank you so much!
I would recommend buying a flavouring online to flavour the frosting as the liquid quantity would likely ruin the frosting! x
made the cupcakes for a friends 50th birthday, but could it be made into a loaf cake or tray bake?
These sounds amazing could I use vanilla vodka? Xx
Yes absolutely you can! Enjoyyy! x
Can this recipe be converted into a 8in cake or would that make it have to much alcohol?
These look unbelievable and cannot wait to try. If making alcohol free, can passion fruit juice be used as the drizzle over cupcakes and in the buttercream instead of the vodka? Thanks 😊
Yes absolutely it can! Hope this helps, enjoy! x
Hi Jane,
This recipe looks great – exactly what I want to bake for NYE!
I was just wondering, could I switch out the buttercream icing for cream cheese icing? Would the alcohol in it affect the consistency if I changed it to cream cheese?
Thanks,
Vicky
You can do, but you will not want to add any liquid such as the alcohol as it will ruin the CCF! x
👍Thank you for your reply. Brilliant I can make use of
My Foodie Flavours flavouring! Any suggestions on number of drops in each of the buttercream and sponge? Deborah
Hi Jane,
Can I ask where you got the passion fruit curd or was it something you made yourself?
Thanks for this recipe, can’t wait to make it for New Years Eve!
You can buy it in some supermarkets, it’s worth a google based on what shops are near you, and I plan to have a recipe in the future!
I got some from booths but Aldi also have it in at the moment
Hi Jane, I was wondering do you have to put in the alcohol or could you leave it out/swap it for something else??
Thanks again-Rachel
Hey! As mentioned on the post you can swap it or leave it out!
I have your book ..amazing … I absolutely love your recipes because they’re not super difficult .. your recipes got me through xmas! Thank u
Thank you!!
Hi Jane. These look sensationally! Brilliantly for New Years Eve or Day. But why wait till then!!! 👩🏻🍳😋😋😘 I happen to have some passion fruit curd too. 👍Instead of using the pipette to add Prosecco (and I trust this is to be pushed through the buttercream into the sponge of the cupcake not just as a Prosecco hit for the buttercream) could I use the foodie flavours Prosecco flavouring and add drops to the sponge?
Which vodka do you use and which Prosecco do you use. Can you add a link please?
Hope to get a reply soon. Thanks for sharing such yumminess! Happy Baking!
Deborah
Yes you can use flavouring, and you can use any vodka or prosecco.
Where do you passionfruit curd from .if you make your own then can we have recipe pls
You can buy it in some supermarkets, it’s worth a google based on what shops are near you, and I plan to have a recipe in the future!
My absolute favourite too! Can’t wait to try these!! Thanks Jane!
I hope you love them! x