Save the Children Name A Day Campaign : Kiwi and Lime Bundt Cake

This is a slightly different post to normal. Yes there is still cake involved but I'd like to take the time to talk about an important issue. Cake and hunger are not two words you would normally put together but this is how I can make a difference by raising awareness and spreading the word through what I can do - baking.

Did you know that in a world with food enough for everybody, 300 children die of malnutrition every hour of every single day? 

This month's Pink Whisk Challenge is dedicated to Save the Children and the Hidden Hunger Campaign. Ruth says "I would love for you to donate a recipe. The theme for the challenge is ‘Family Favourites’, recipes you enjoy making and that you love to share, there’s nothing more to it than that – it doesn’t even have to be baking (I hope you realise how much that hurt me to write!)  All recipes gathered for the challenge will be collated and published in a Save the Children e-book which will be sold to raise awareness and funds for the campaign."

Read about Ruth's firsthand experience in Rwanda here and here.

Save the children asks that you name a day to beat hunger. They want the Prime Minister to host a world hunger summit aimed at making the global food system work for the millions of children going hungry.
All you have to do is name a day and when your day comes round, they’ll ask you to take one of five simple actions – from sending a tweet to cooking a meal – to help spread the word about this devastating crisis. I've named my day. Will you? 

This cake is not strictly a family favourite (but I'm sure it will be!) as I wanted to create my own recipe for this challenge.  My dad used to study in New Zealand which made me think of kiwis.  It's not a fruit I've ever baked with before so I thought it would be a good challenge.  It's very similar to my lemon and raspberry cake which worked well so I decided to modify it for this. I love making smoothies with lime, kiwi and honey so I thought why not make it into a cake? 

I tried to blitz the whole lime but it didn't work out so I used lime juice and lime zest instead.  There's whole kiwi fruit and pureed kiwi fruit in the batter.  It's quite a dense, moist sponge with the freshness of the fruit and the citrus tang from the limes. It was delicious with the glaze but you can have it plain if you prefer.   

 adding kiwi to the batter - I forgot to coat the kiwis in flour first so they sank to the bottom, well top as this was a bundt cake :( 

 I also added some kiwi puree

 thought it was a good time to use my new bundt tin

 love the heart shapes :) 

 add glaze... 

 delicious! you can see the kiwis at the top of the cake! 

An original recipe by me, bakingaddict

Makes 1 small bundt cake as shown

For the cake

150g yoghurt

140g caster sugar

40g honey

2 eggs

1/2 cup vegetable oil

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

180g self raising flour

Juice and zest of 2 limes

4 kiwi fruit - peeled and chopped into 1/8

1 kiwi fruit - peeled and pureed

For the glaze

50g icing sugar

1-2 tablespoon lime juice 

• Preheat the oven to 180C
• Butter and flour your bundt pan or line normal cake tin with greaseproof paper. 
• In a large bowl, mix together the yoghurt, sugar, honey, eggs, vanilla extract and oil. 
• Add in the lime juice and zest. 
• Stir in the flour and mix well.
• Coat the chopped kiwi fruit in 1-2 tablespoons of flour then add to the batter. 
• Puree 1 kiwi fruit and stir into the batter. 
• Pour into the prepared tin and bake for 40-45 minutes until a skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean.
• Allow to cool on a wire rack.
• To make the glaze, sift the icing sugar into a bowl. 
• Add enough lime juice to make a glaze of dripping consistency.