Jackfruit Butter Cake (Buah Nanga)

When we were given a Jackfruit, my maid told me there are two types of Jackfruits and in Indonesia, they called them as:

Nanga Susu - soft and a lot of liquid
Nanga Belanda - crunchy and hard, less liquid

Nanga Belanda is easier to handle in baking, the dicing of the flesh is easier.

When you bake this cake, the aroma in the house is absolutely wonderful. The smell is even has a sweet taste to it and it has this buttery frangrance in it. As a butter cake, its very flavourful and you can reduce the sugar due to the sweetnes in the fruit.


Ingredient A
5 Eggs White medium size
150 gm Sugar

Ingredient B
5 Egg Yolks medium size
220 gm Butter

220 gm Plain Flour Sieved
1 tsp Baking Powder
1/4 tsp Soda Bicarbonate
30 gm Fresh Milk
80-100 gm Jackfruit diced

Method

1. Blend Egg white and sugar till soft peak.
2. Blend Butter, Egg Yolks till even. Add in Ingredient A, add Flour, milk. Lastly add diced Jackfruits.

Bake 180 C 45 minutes

Note :- 2 Portions can make 3 loaves tins.

Other versions of Recipes :-

1. http://www.smithaskitchen.com/jackfruit-cake/
2. http://www.goaholidayhomes.com/recipes/recipe-353-jackfruit-cake.html
3. http://artfulfood.blogspot.my/2011/07/jackfruit-chiffon-cake.html

Cempedak Cakes

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 :-

1. http://bakericious.blogspot.my/2012/11/cempedak-butter-cake.html