This jackfruit bread is a spongy loaf cake with a wonderful tropical flavour. It’s a fun twist on the famous banana bread made with sweet and ripe yellow jackfruit. And it’s fully vegan. Let’s make it together!
If you have ever tried ripe jackfruit, we bet you loved it instantly, and if it’s your first time baking with it, you’ll be in for a treat.
Ripe jackfruit pods are bright yellow, juicy, meaty, and sweet. They’re perfect for preparing exotic smoothies, desserts, and bakes like this jackfruit cake.
Jackfruit tastes like a wonderful cross of three delicious tropical fruits: mangos, bananas, and pineapples. It’s really unique and so good!
To use yellow jackfruit in this pound cake, you must soften the fruit first.
Because the fruit flesh is quite “meaty”, you won’t be able to just mash it and add it to the cake batter as you would for banana bread.
Instead, you have to simmer the jackfruit in a little water before blending it until smooth. That’s pretty much like making a jam!
You can read how to do this precisely in our homemade, sugar-free jackfruit jam recipe.
Once you have your jackfruit puree ready, mix it with the other cake ingredients, pour the batter into a loaf tin, and bake the bread. Easy!
Jackfruit will give a nice yellow hue to the loaf cake and a delicious tropical flavour. It tastes similar to banana bread, but it’s way more flavourful!
Because jackfruit puree is naturally thick and sweet, we skipped the eggs and used very little added sugar.
We also replaced milk with tinned coconut milk and butter with vegetable oil to make this fruit loaf dairy-free and vegan.
As for where to find yellow jackfruit, your local Asian food market or store should sell the fresh fruit when in season. Alternatively, you can opt for the canned fruit, which should be available at well-stocked supermarkets or online.
If you bought a large jackfruit chunk at the market, you can read how to clean, deseed, and prepare jackfruit for this cake recipe.
Now, it’s time to gather the ingredients and prepare this wonderful jackfruit loaf together!
And if you’re looking for more fun and exotic sweet loaves, try this purple bread with ube, banana loaf with mochi rice flour, or braided blue pea bread. They’re all utterly delicious!