Feijoa Loaf

Golden brown loaf in a pink loaf tin, sitting on a cooling rack next to a pile of feijoas.

4.64 from 94 votes

A delicious and easy feijoa loaf, made with ground almonds it is delicious and moist and of course full of feijoa flavours!

Prep Time10

Cook Time35

Total Time45

Course: Baking

Cuisine: New Zealand

Keyword: feijoa loaf, feijoa recipe, feijoas, feijoa baking

Servings: slices

Calories: 126kcal

Author: Stacey

Ingredients

1 ½ Cup flour 225g
2 teaspoon baking powder
½ Cup sugar 90g I like to use brown sugar as it adds a nice flavour
½ Cup ground almonds 55g
1 egg
½ Cup milk
1 Cup feijoa flesh 220g aprroximately 9-10 feijoa.
1 teaspoon vanilla essence

Instructions

Preheat your oven to 180 degrees celsius, prepare a loaf tin, line and or grease your tin.
Scoop out the flesh of your feijoas and mash with a fork.
Place the dry ingredients: Flour, baking powder, sugar, and ground almonds into a medium to large mixing bowl. Whisk or use a fork to combine the ingredients
In a second bowl whisk together the eggs, milk, and vanilla.
Add the mashed feijoa to the wet ingredients and mix to combine.
Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and mix gently until just combined.
Pour into the prepared loaf tin
Bake at 180 degrees celsius for 35-45min until the loaf has risen, is golden and when you insert a skewer it comes out clean.
Cool in the tin for at least 5 minutes before tipping out onto a cooling rack.

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Notes

Tips

Like muffins, be sure to not over mix the batter, this will lead to tunneling in the loaf tin
If you want a stronger feijoa flavour, you can actually up the feijoa content in this loaf by 50% to one and a half cups of mashed feijoa, the feijoa taste is stronger which one of my kids prefers.
After a lower sugar recipe? You can drop the sugar down to ¼ of a cup, the end result still tastes lovely, but you will end up with a denser loaf (the sugar provides not only sweetness but structure in baking recipes).
Try adding 1 teaspoon of ginger to the dry ingredients, feijoa and ginger are a great combination of flavours.

Ingredient Substitutions

Flour: This recipe does work with gluten-free flour.
Milk: You can substitute cows' milk for alternative milk, almond, rice, soy etc.
Feijoa: You can substitute 1 cup of mashed banana
Sugar: I use brown sugar, but any granulated sugar will work, I have not tested this recipe with a liquid/syrup sweetener such as maple syrup or honey.
Almonds: Coconut flour or fine desiccated coconut
Eggs: I have not tested this recipe with an egg substitute.

Nutrition

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