I made this to honour the last kiwi fruit harvest from my huge kiwi vines, which I planted well over 20 years ago. I made the hard decision to remove these difficult to manage vines and replace them with a self pollinating Kiwi berry ‘Issai’ and a new Choko as my old one needs replacing. Watch the video to find out more.
Slice up 3-4 kiwi fruit
Kiwi Cake Recipe
Ingredients
- 4-6 Kiwi fruit, peeled and sliced (2 for puree, 4 on top) depends on fruit size
- 320 g (2 1/2 cups) plain flour
- 120 g (1 cup) brown sugar
- 100 g (1 cup) avocado or seed oil
- 100 g (1 cup) almond or soy milk
- 16 g (3 tsp) baking powder
- 2 eggs
- icing sugar for dusting
Preheat a static oven at 180°C
Method
- Line and grease a 20cm cake tin, put aside
- Peel 2 kiwis and dice of them. Put in the mixer and reduce to a puree, put aside.
- Slice the remaining kiwis in rounds and put aside for later.
- Beat eggs and brown sugar until fluffy
- Sift in dry ingedients and mix fold together
- Add in room temperature milk
- Fold in oil
- Fold in blended kiwi fruit
- Pour batter into cake tin
- Decorate with slices of kiwi fruit
- Bake 45-55 minutes in moderate over until skewer is clean – the middle is the last to bake, so check carefully to avoid a gluggy middle.
- Remove the cake from the oven and let it cool for a several minutes.
- Enjoy with coconut yoghurt or cream!
This dairy and gluten free recipe was adapted, read more on: https://www.cookist.com/kiwi-cake/
These are the last kiwi fruit from my old vines!
Kiwi vines at my garden friend, Anna’s house
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