Easy Guava Cake

Submitted by ChamoritaMomma

"Brings back memories of being stationed back in Hawaii."

 

• Ready In: 55mins
• Ingredients: 13
• Yields: 1 cake
• Serves: 12

ingredients

• 1 (18 ounce) package yellow cake mix
• 1 1⁄3 cups guava juice
• 3 eggs
• 1⁄3 cup vegetable oil
• 1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese, softened
• 1⁄3 cup sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 (8 ounce) container Cool Whip, thawed
• 1 1⁄2 cups guava juice (check in Latin section of grocery store)
• 1⁄2 cup sugar
• 1⁄2 cup guava juice
• 1⁄4 cup cornstarch
• red food coloring (optional)

directions

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. In a medium saucepan, bring 1 1/2 cups guava juice and sugar to a boil.
4. 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.

5. To assemble cooled cake:

6. 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.
7. 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.
8. IF using a single layer 9x13 pan; ice the entire cake, pour some of the glaze over the center. Refrigerate until set before serving.

Reviews

[judi145]

Wonderful recipe!!! In Texas the Guava juice is yellow (not pink like Hawaii brands) so I added 3-4 drops red food coloring to gel mixture. Used the strawberry cake mix. To lower fat and calories, I eliminated the cream cheese/cool whip frosting. Baked the cake in a 9x13 pan and spread on the cooled Guava gel..."onolicious". Best served cold. Thanks for helping me get back to my Hawaiian roots!!

 

[heatherhopecs]

I used to live near the King's Hawaiian bread bakery in Torrance, CA, which also has a restaurant that serves luscious Hawaiian cakes and pastries, including guava cake. This is definitely the closest recipe I've found to recreating that delicious cake that appeared at every local party or dinner in the South Bay area. I used the Duncan Hines "Pink Velvet" cake mix as the base, b/c it is pink in color but vanilla in flavor, so as not to clash w/ the guava juice flavor. I used Tru Whip in place of the Cool Whip ("natural" product), but everything else was strictly by the recipe. I made a little extra guava jelly and put it in between the two layers of cake, which was a great touch, and then used a frosting bag to pipe a big fat layer of the frosting around the outer edge of the jelly on the top. Delicious! And it tasted even better the next day. Thank you for sharing this!!!

 

[mstyler05]

Does this remind anyone of Zippy's guava cake? I tried getting the recipe from them but never could and now they have discontinued it due to lack of people buying it...but this is a great copycat recipe of it, thanks.

 

[Y B.8396]

Very easy to make. The cake is so moist and delicious. Thank you so much for such a wonderful recipe. I used white cake mix instead which was the only cake mix in my pantry and it turned out so good! I will make soon again!

 

[Kitearia C.]

Yummy and easy to make!