Reviewed: Aug. 22, 2011

this was really easy to make & allowed me to use some of my excess guavas. my boyfriend ate some of it plain and a dinner guest tried it with with whipped cream & sliced guavas. no one loved it- but they ate it and said it was good. i didn't like the cake itself, so didn't want to spend too much time trying to create an icing/glaze- as i have a lot more guava to process so am going to look for a different cake recipe. but it was incredibly easy to make so i am giving it 3 stars for that.

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ali p

Cooking Level: Expert

Home Town: San Francisco, California, USA

Reviewed: Apr. 23, 2011

This was good as a bread, not a cake.

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Goody2shoes

Cooking Level: Beginning

Home Town: Seattle, Washington, USA

Living In: Orlando, Florida, USA

Reviewed: Jan. 19, 2011

I live in Africa and its guava season. Didnt know what to do with my ripe guavas so I googled guava recipes and it brought me to your site. The cake came out fluffy, sweet and guavalicious, I put a drop of lemon essence to add flavour. Im gonna ask my neighbour if I can use some of his guavas to make another cake tomorrow!

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msphanor25

Reviewed: Aug. 26, 2010

It was pretty good. If you are using fresh guava, make sure you get all the seeds out. It's annoying to bite into a seed. I made some frosting with guava nectar because the cake doesn't taste much like guava.

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lovefood

Cooking Level: Beginning

Reviewed: Aug. 13, 2010

A must try recipe...I made it using pink guava pulp that gave it a good flavor and colour...

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shimlahills

Reviewed: Feb. 9, 2010

This cake was great! My guavas were not bursting ripe so they didn't have as much flavor and as a result the guava flavor was really light. It tasted very nutmeggy and clovey. I made a cream cheese guava icing that everyone else said they tasted the guava in, but not so much the cake. However it tasted yum!

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sashahawaii

Reviewed: Dec. 13, 2009

We have a guava tree in my backyard, and this was a delicious recipe that my whole family loved! I will use it again.

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Mariana

Reviewed: Oct. 8, 2009

Really a lovely cake. I had so many compliments. I would suggest being very careful when getting the guava pulp--the seeds would make an uncomfortable finding in your cake! Overall, this was more like a spice cake; very moist, but I don't know if many people could have figured out it was guava without my saying so. That said, everyone liked it and I was asked for the recipe by three people. Just as a note, I used freshly grated nutmeg and put some guava nectar in the frosting. I will definitely make this cake again.

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ESHIPLER

Cooking Level: Expert

Home Town: Des Moines, Iowa, USA

Reviewed: Mar. 9, 2006

This cake was so good! I used canned guava paste in place of fresh guavas. It turned out like a bread more than a cake. Will make again.

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j1012

Reviewed: Jul. 4, 2003

born and raised in Hawaii, i am addicted to guava cake. i gave this recipe to a friend in Hawaii, it is so easy to make because guava's grow on every corner of the streets on the Big Island. it was a hit!, it was different than the original "Hawaiian Guava Cake", the original is Pink and very fluffy, almost like an Angel Food Cake tecture. But, this was delicious as well...

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