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Nici Wickes: Feijoa, coconut, rum and lime cake - Saturday Morning with Jack Tame

Saturday Morning with Jack Tame

This cake is gorgeous! Lime & coconut are great friends and bring in the pineapple, guava-like flavour of feijoa and wow, it’s a winner 

  • 150gbutter, softened 
  • 3/4 cup caster sugar
  • 3 large eggs
  • 150gself-raising flour 
  • 2 tbspsyoghurt or milk 
  • Slug of rum
  • 3/4 cup desiccated coconut
  • 1 cup feijoas, chopped
  • Zest and juice from 2 limes, plus 1 extra lime

Icing 

  • 250gcream cheese 
  • 2 tspsvanilla extract 
  • ½ -1 cup icing sugar
  1. Preheat oven to 170°C fan bake. Line a 23cmcake tin with baking paper.
  2. Cream the butter and sugar together until fluffy and pale. Add the eggs and beat until well combined. Don't worry if it curdles at this stage, it makes no difference to the end result.
  3. Fold in the flour, stirring until just combined. Add in the yoghurt, rumand coconut, mixing well, then fold in the chopped feijoas, lime zest and juice. Scrape the batter into your prepared cake tin.
  4. Bake for 35-45 minutes or until it springs back to the touch. Cool for 15 minutes, then remove from the tin to cool completely.
  5. Make the icing: Beat the cream cheese and vanilla extract until smooth. Stir in enough icing sugar (I
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Nici Wickes: Feijoa, coconut, rum and lime cake - Saturday Morning with Jack Tame