Pawpaw (Papaya) Loaf Cake. Combine the flour, sugar and baking powder in a large bowl. Combine mashed papaya, banana and eggs in a small bowl. Add to the flour mixture with the melted butter, macadamias and extra papaya and gently stir until just combined.
Moist and fruity, the pawpaw quick bread tasted better and better with each passing day. See great recipes for Pawpaw (Papaya) Loaf Cake, Pawpaw smoothie too! My dad discovered Jim Lahey's No Knead Bread recipe a few years before he died and blew my Nonna's mind with it. You can have Pawpaw (Papaya) Loaf Cake using 13 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you achieve it.
Ingredients of Pawpaw (Papaya) Loaf Cake
- Prepare 2 cups of flour.
- Prepare 1 teaspoon of baking powder.
- You need 1/2 teaspoon of baking soda.
- You need 1/2 teaspoon of salt.
- It’s 1/4 teaspoon of cinnamon.
- It’s 1/2 cup of oil.
- Prepare 3/4 cup of sugar.
- You need 2 of eggs.
- Prepare 1 teaspoon of vanilla.
- Prepare 1 teaspoon of lemon juice (or zest).
- It’s 1/4 cup of milk.
- Prepare 1 cup of ripe and soft mashed pawpaw/papaya.
- It’s of Toppings: 1/8 cup of raisins and 1/4 cup of shredded unsweetened coconut.
She always swore you could never make. I have been challenged by Papaya Australia to bring Papaya or Pawpaw to the family table. My kids love cake (what kid doesn't?) and what I love about this one is all the vitamins and minerals I have been able to pack into it with simple addition of Red Papaya. Whisk all the dry ingredients in a bowl.
Pawpaw (Papaya) Loaf Cake instructions
- First start by preheating your pot on a medium heat then greasing and flouring your baking pan (I used two mini loaf pans).
- Mix the dry ingredients, flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt and cinnamon and set aside..
- Pour the oil and sugar in a bowl and mix till the sugar dissolves.
- Add the eggs one at a time, whisking after each addition..
- Add the vanilla and lemon juice and mix..
- Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients in 3 steps, first half of the flour, mix, add the milk and mix, then add the remaining part of flour and mix..
- Fold in the mashed pawpaw.
- Pour into the prepared pans, top with shredded coconut and raisins.
- Bake for 35 – 40 minutes in the preheated pan till a toothpick inserted comes out clean..
- Bring it down, allow to cool and then serve. It is best enjoyed the next day when the pawpaw flavour really comes out..
Whisk together the flour, coconut, baking powder, salt, and baking soda in a medium bowl. In a large mixing bowl, combine the sugar, oil, and eggs. As part of my adventure to incorporate pawpaw into my cooking, I decided to bake a cake – yes, a pawpaw cake!!! I have not seen any cake recipe using pawpaw so this is a hit or miss trial situation. I thought, if you can bake a carrot cake, surely you can bake a pawpaw cake.
