FEIJOA WALNUT CAKE
Ingredients
- 2 cups feijoas, peeled and roughly chopped (important to measure correctly – 2 cups when peeled and chopped)
- 1 cup walnut pieces
- 1 cup sultanas
- 1 cup sugar
- 100 grams melted butter
- 1 egg
- 1 cup flour
- 2 teaspoons mixed spice
- 2 teaspoons baking soda
Method
- Mix feijoas, walnuts, sultanas and sugar together in a large bowl.
- Beat egg and butter together and mix into feijoa mixture.
- Sift flour, mixed spice and baking soda and add to feijoa mixture. Stir lightly.
- Turn into well greased 25cm cake tin or deep ring tin.
- Bake 180ºC for 40-45 minutes or until skewer comes out clean.
- Cool in tin before turning out.
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Hi there, I made this recipe with our first ever crop of Feijoas (having moved to New Zealand 6 months ago). It was very tasty. Came out a little more like a sponge pudding than a cake when I made it – would have been just as nice with a scoop of ice cream and a spoon! I will try it again for sure.
I have bookmarked the page to come back to in future, but I wonder if I could ask a favour? To save me having to recalculate the weights again next time, could you update the ingredients list thus:-
2 cups / 300g Feijoas
1 cup / 100g Walnut peices
1 cup / 200g Sultanas
1 cup / 200g Caster Sugar
1 cup / 125g Plain flour
I weighed them all out as I was making it, but I find cups hard to work with and prefer to weigh everything. With other American-style recipes I have republished them on my own blog in the past with the cups + weights, but I think it would be better to keep all the Feijoa stuff here on your site.
Thanks for a wonderful site, I shall be back here plenty more times as our Feijoas fall.
Cheers
Morag
Thanks Morag, lovely to hear you are enjoying the site. I am not here much anymore as you have spotted … but yes I can update the measurements. I work easily with both weight and volume so it never crossed my mind that others don’t.
I made this cake and replaced the sultanas with regular raisins. For spices, I used nutmeg and cinnamon and the flavors just melded together with the feijoas. The cake was a ht at work. I have made this twice so far. A sure winner for the holidays.
Oh my. I’m eating a piece straight out of the oven as I type. This is delicious, moist light with a very tasty walnut crunch. I can see this cake being demolished when my partner gets home :)
Oh my, that sounds good. I can’t make them all, so it’s great to hear back from the wider test kitchens about which recipes are fabulous.
This one is worth doing Juliana. I have frozen bags of 2 cups of feijoas so that I can make it until the next lot fall from the trees! A sure winner.
This cake has to be one of the best and tastiest and yummiest cakes I have ever cooked. Anyone who has a piece asks for the recipe. It is more like a muffin recipe but so easy. It beats all other feijoa recipes I have tried so far.