Best Graces Guava Cake Recipes

TRADITIONAL GUAVA CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F.
• Cream butter and add sugar little by little.
• Add eggs one at a time, followed by the vanilla.
• Sieve flour and baking powder and mix in to the butter eggs and sugar.
• Pour half the batter on a greased mold.
• Place the guava paste (cut in slices) so as to cover all the batter.
• Pour the rest of the batter and bake for 45-60 min, or until an inserted toothpick comes out clean.

HAWAIIAN GUAVA CAKE

Steps:

• In a mixing bowl, mix together cake mix, guava juice, eggs, and coconut oil until well combined. Bake in a 9x13 glass baking dish according to cake mix package directions.
• In a medium mixing bowl, beat cream cheese with hand mixer until fluffy. Add sugar and vanilla and mix well. Slowly fold in the Cool Whip and refrigerate until ready to use.
• In a medium saucepan, bring the 2 cups guava juice and sugar to a boil. Make a slurry out of the cornstarch and a small amount of water. Remove guava juice from heat and stir in the cornstarch mixture. Return to heat and bring back to a boil and boil for one minute. Cool in refrigerator.
• When cake has cooled, spread cream cheese mixture evenly over cake. When cake has cooled, spread cream cheese mixture evenly over cake. Glaze the top of the cake with guava gel. Refrigerate until ready to serve.
• Glaze the top of the cake with guava gel. Refrigerate until ready to serve.

GRACE'S GUAVA CAKE

Steps:

• Grease baking pan and preheat oven 180 C or 350 degrees F.
• Cream butter, sugar, and almond essence.
• Add eggs, one by one, followed by the guava pulp.
• Add the flour/baking powder mixture, little by little.
• When it's all in, beat on high speed for approximately a minute.
• Clean mixer.
• Fold in shredded guava using a spatula.
• Bake 45-55 minutes.
• Decorate when cool.
• To make topping, combine powdered sugar, almond extract, guava juice, and lime juicetill smooth.
• Glaze over cooled cake, then top with peanuts and coconut.

GUAVA CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
• Grease a 10-inch springform pan or ring mold.
• In a large mixing bowl, cream butter and sugar together.
• Add eggs, one by one, beating thoroughly.
• Add applesauce and vanilla, and mix well.
• Sift flour and baking powder together in a separate bowl.
• Gradually add flour mixture to butter mixture until fully blended.
• Spread half the cake batter in greased pan.
• Top with guava paste, taking care not to place paste against pan sides (it will melt and spread once baked).
• Top with remaining cake batter, covering guava paste.
• Bake for 45-55 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean (except for the guava paste).
• Mix ingredients for glaze until smooth, and pour over warm cake.
• Allow to cool before serving, as filling will be extremely hot (not good to incinerate your tester's taste buds - you will lose tasting volunteers that way!).

RIDICULOUSLY EASY GUAVA CAKE

Steps:

• Heat your oven to 350°F.
• Seperate the egg whites from the yolks. This will give you a true white cake. Do this into a bowl.
• Add the food colorings to the water then pour it into the bowl.
• Add the guava paste, then dump in the entire contents of the cake mix.
• Beat the mixture until it comes together to a nice batter -- Look! It's purple -- Go ahead and beat it for around three minutes or until it really comes together.
• Spray two 9 inch cake pans with non stick cooking spray and pour the batter in equal amounts into the pan. Doesn't it smell so -- Tropical?.
• Cook for around 30-35 minutes. If a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean then it's done!
• Let it cool, then frost away!

GUAVA CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour one 13x9 inch pan.
• Sift together flour, nutmeg, soda, cinnamon, and cloves.
• In another bowl, mix together guava pulp and juice.
• In another bowl, cream together butter and sugar. Add eggs, one at a time. Add flour mixture and guava mixture alternately to creamed mixture. Pour batter into prepared pan.
• Bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for 30-35 minutes.

EASY GUAVA CAKE

Steps:

• Grease and flour 2 round cake pans or a 9x13 baking pan. Bake cake according to package directions, substituting the 1 1/3 cup guava juice for the water called for. Allow to cool completely.
• Meanwhile, in a mixing bowl, beat cream cheese with hand mixer until fluffy. Add sugar and vanilla and beat until completely mixed and smooth. Slowly fold in the Cool Whip, combined well. Refrigerate until ready to use.
• In a medium saucepan, bring 1 1/2 cups guava juice and sugar to a boil.
• Make a slurry out of the 1/4 cup cornstarch and the remaining 1/2 cup Guava juice. Remove guava juice from heat and stir in the cornstarch slurry. Add a few drops of red coloring, if needed. Return to heat and bring back to a boil for one minute. Allow this to cool completely.
• To assemble cooled cake:.
• For a round layered cake; thickly ice the cake with of the cream cheese mixture in between the layers, leaving a well in the center of the layer. Pour some of the glaze in between the layers.
• Top with the cake and repeat with cream cheese and then glaze the top of the cake with guava gel. Refrigerate until set before serving.
• IF using a single layer 9x13 pan; ice the entire cake, pour some of the glaze over the center. Refrigerate until set before serving.