It's good to find a recipe for this fragrant fruits. Cempedak is a local fruit that is strong fragrant and rich in fibre. It is known in English as the fragrant Jackfruit, definitely a close "cousin" of jackfruit, they even look alike from the skin.
We went to Ranau farm and harvested literally 40 pieces of such fruits. We could easily bring down 100 pieces but we stopped the farmers from taking any more for us. There was no way we could consume all the Cempedak, In the past, we would fry them in batter but its oily and soaky after a while.
Before 25 Septemeber 2015, I only knew of three ways to eat Cempedak :-
1) Freshly from the fruits
2) Fried Cempedak Fritters (with batter)
3) Cempedak Ice Cream
I decided to google search for recipes and found a few adapted ones from Butter Cakes and Chiffon Cakes, some made them into Cempedak Cream and sandwich in between Pandan cake sprinkle with Almond or Pistachio nuts. It was very interesting discovery. We could make a cake out of Cempedak.
Recipes as adapted by me
500 g Butter
10 Oz / 300 g Brown Sugar
12 Oz Flour
2 tsp Baking Powder
2 tsp Vanilla
10 Eggs
300-400 g Cempedak puree
1 1/2 Cup Milk
170 C 50-60 minutes (cool oven make cakes raise more even and less brown)
Make 2 Round 10 inches cakes
Other version of recipes :-
- http://bakericious.blogspot.my/2012/11/cempedak-butter-cake.html
