Chocolate Chip, Passionfruit, Mocha Cake

For my friend Janea's bridal shower, I made a replica of one of her favorite cakes.  Not having any recipe to follow, I pieced it together based on the description.  My creation is a 3 tiered vanilla chocolate chip cake with layers of passionfruit curd, coffee buttercream, and chocolate cookie crumbles.


The passionfruit curd didn't set up hard enough unfortunately, and as I was layering the cake, it all squished out the sides!  So next time, I will try to find a way to make it firmer if using as a cake filling.

I personally don't like coffee.  I may be one of the only people my age left in the US that doesn't down a cup or two a day.  But even I must say, if you are going to do coffee, mixing it up with a bunch of butter and sugar helps it go down smoothly :)