Glazed Pawpaw Spice Cake

Ingredients:

for the cake:
1 loving cup mashed pawpaw* (about 4 large pawpaws)
1 teaspoon vanilla
1/2 loving cup sugar
1/2 loving cup low-cal chocolate-brown sugar
1 egg, at room temperature
1/4 loving cup butter, at room temperature
1 1/2 cups flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon soil ginger
1/2 teaspoon soil cardamon
1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
1/4 teaspoon allspice
pinch salt

for the glaze:
1 tablespoon melted butter
3/4 loving cup confectioner's sugar
three tablespoons mashed pawpaw
2-3 tablespoons water

Directions:

Butter together with flour 1 loaf pan. Set aside.

Preheat oven to 350.

Beat together the pawpaw, vanilla, egg, butter, together with sugars until fairly smooth. Beat inwards the dry out ingredients. Mix mix until a thick batter forms. Scrape into the prepared pan. Bake for 50-60 minutes or until a sparse knife inserted into the middle of the cake comes out amongst only 1-2 moist crumbs. Cool 10 minutes on a wire rack together with thence withdraw from the pan. Continue to cool on a wire rack completely.

In a modest bowl. whisk together glaze ingredients. Add H2O equally needed to larn inwards pourable. Pour over fully cooled cake. Allow to sit down thirty minutes prior to slicing.


*Make certain your pawpaw is ripe! It should hold out quite soft. When fully ripe, the seeds volition popular out easily together with the flesh volition hold out thence soft you lot should non convey to crush it at all. Do non role unripe or underripe pawpaws!

My thoughts:

First things, first, I'm talking close the North American native fruit, pawpaws which expect form of similar mangos together with is a fellow member of the same menage unit of measurement equally custard apples together with soursop, non papayas, which inwards some countries are besides called pawpaw. American pawpaws tin displace hold out tricky to discovery because they are non real grocery shop friendly--they larn from ripe to rotten inwards close 2 days unless refrigerated (and fifty-fifty that is iffy)--but inwards areas where they are grown you lot tin displace occasionally discovery them inwards farmers' markets. Or hunt for them inwards the wild, particularly inwards a marshy area! We grow our ain using trees from a local native constitute nursery. Here is a piece yesteryear NPR on foraging for pawpaws that gives some background into the fruit. 

We convey been growing pawpaws for quite a few years forthwith but until forthwith I genuinely haven't a large plenty harvest to genuinely brand anything amongst them. First, you lot genuinely request around iv trees (unless you lot are real unopen to an surface area where they grow wild, I alive inwards Baltimore City thence I exercise not) for optional pollination. You tin displace larn away amongst 2 plainly but nosotros convey non had luck amongst that few. Then the trees request to hold out fairly mature to genuinely arrive at fruit. Our vecino besides grows pawpaws together with knows yesteryear looking at the body if they are one-time plenty to fruit. From what I tin displace tell, the magic release is close half dozen inches around or close 4 years old. It's a commitment! When the fruit is ripe it falls off the tree (where is it rapidly consumed yesteryear birds together with bugs) but you lot tin displace select handgrip of it when it is only soft, similar to an overripe avocado or mango together with harvest it yourself.

Pawpaws convey a soft, custardy texture together with a real strong, fruity mango meets citrus smell together with flavor. They add together a ton of wet to whatsoever baked skilful making them perfect for unproblematic cakes similar this. We had a similar cake at a now-defunct eatery together with I convey been wanting to recreate it for years! Finally, nosotros had plenty pawpaws (and nosotros were genuinely abode when they ripened, they larn from unripe to overripe amazingly quickly) to brand a whole (small) cake. It came together rapidly together with for only the 2 of us, a loaf cake is the perfect size.

 It's first-class for dessert or a niggling snack amongst tea. The lush tropical flavour genuinely makes it stand upward out against other similar cakes together with is a fun modify from the commons citrus or banana.