Guava Cake Bombed

Ever since the cake show last month, I've had the bug to make lots of creations in both flavor combinations and design.  Since I'm from Hawaii and I miss, miss, MISS the local flavors, I decided to try to bring some of that here to the DC metro area.  I found a place online that sells all my favorites: guava, passion fruit, and mango!  Yippee!!!

Now onto make some awesome, delicious cakes...or so I thought.  I LOVE and MISS the juices back home...passion orange, guava, passion orange guava (aka POG), strawberry guava.  That was my inspiration for my Hawaii cake.  I decided to do a guava cake filled with passion fruit curd and covered with passion fruit buttercream.  Sadly, the flavors were a little unbalanced.  The guava cake on it's own was fantastic and the passion fruit buttercream was divine!  But, when I put them all together, the passion fruit curd overpowered everything, the guava taste was lost, and the buttercream was mild, almost to the point of being bland. :-(  

I adapted the guava cake recipe from The Cake Doctor.  I still need to tweak it a little, but overall, I'm happy with it.  I just need to change the flavor combinations.  Oh well...back to the drawing board.  I guess that's just more cake I have to eat...I mean make. :-)