Guava Chocolate Cake {Pudding}

This cake turned out so divine!  Soft and moist with yummy cream and soft, gooey guavas.  Yummy!  Ideal pudding cake!

I preserved the guavas myself, but you can use fresh or tinned ones.

Recipe for preserved guavas

Thinly peel all the guavas, cut in half and immediately place in a bowl with the following mixture in, 5 liters of water plus 15ml salt and 15ml vinegar.  This will stop the guavas from turning brown.
Make a syrup by boiling 200g white sugar and 500ml water for about every 500g of guavas that you have.  In the meantime boil your guavas for about 5min till soft.  Add the guavas to your prepared syrup and boil for another 10min.  Bottle the guavas immediately in sterilized jars and seal immediately. 

I like this recipe since the guavas aren't too sweet, they are gooey and soft and heavenly!  If you are planning on preserving your guavas yourself, make them a day ahead of the rest of the cake.

Chocolate Cake recipe
This is my all time favourite, never fail, always a success no matter what, cake recipe!  I got this from my home economics teacher in grade 8!


Ingredients
500ml Flour, sifted
10ml Vanilla essence
450ml Sugar
4 Eggs, seperated
20ml Baking Powder
125ml Cocoa Powder dissolved in 250ml boiling water.  I used the Willie's Cocoa, but you can use normal powder
125ml Oil

Method
Pre heat your oven to 180 degrees celcius and grease two 20cm cake tins.
Mix the flour, sugar, baking powder, oil, vanilla essence and egg yolks well, it is best to use an electric mixer.  Slowly pour in the  cocoa mixture while mixing.

In a seperate bowl whisk the egg whites till soft peak and then gently fold into your chocolate batter.

Pour batter into prepared tins and bake for 30 - 40 min.  Cakes are done when a skewer inserted comes out clean.
Leave to cool completely in cake tins before removing.

Cream recipe

250 ml fresh cream
30 ml icing sugar

Mix the cream and icing sugar and whisk the cream until soft peaks.

Assembling

Place a layer of cake on a plate, top with half of the cream mixture, place the other cake half on top and top of with the remaining cream.  Add some of your gorgeous preserved guavas on top and drizzle with some of the preserving syrup.  Enjoy!!! This makes the perfect pud!

I'm linking this to Heidi's Crafts: Fortnightly Baking Fun Challenge

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