Is it a snack or is it dessert? Yes! This feijoa recipe has been adapted from this apple crumble slice recipe. I have once again left the skins on the feijoas, to ensure optimal feijoainess, but you can peel them if you prefer.
Ingredients:
1 1/4 cups plain flour
1 1/4 cups rolled oats
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
1 cup brown sugar, packed
1 teaspoon cardamom
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1 teaspoon ground nutmeg
170g butter, melted
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
about 10 small feijoas, skin on, sliced
Instructions:
Preheat oven to 170°C (338°F).
Combine dry ingredients in a bowl and mix to combine. Make a well in the centre, and add in melted butter and vanilla extract. Mix well to combine.
Take about 2/3 of the mixture and press into a baking tray lined with baking paper. Arrange the sliced feijoas over the top. Sprinkle the feijoas with the remaining mixture.
Bake at 170°C (338°F) for 25 minutes, or until lightly golden.
Allow to cool, then cut and remove from tray.
What the kids can do:
Hand washing: Don’t forget to get the kids (and grownups too of course) to wash their hands before you start. Little hands always seem to end up touching everything, including the ingredients. This is extra important given the current Covid-19 situation. For good 20 second hand wash, have them sing “happy birthday to me” twice.
Mixing the ingredients: My daughter helped mix all the ingredients. The biggest messes seen to happen when sifting and mixing dry ingredients with the kids. A great tip from reader Dana M is to put a towel down underneath, which catches any stray ingredients for easy cleaning.
Feijoas: We washed the feijoas. Miss 5 cut the flower ends off with a butter knife (for safety) and we put them through the food processor to slice them. We then arranged the slices across the top of the base. Once covered with feijoas, we crumbled the last 1/3 of base mix over the top.
This recipe is great on its own, and even better heated up a bit with a scoop of icecream for dessert. Enjoy.
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