Fuyu Persimmon Bundt Cake Food

PERSIMMON CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325°F. Stir together flour, sugar, cinnamon, baking soda, and salt in a large bowl. Stir in persimmon pulp, oil, melted butter, and eggs until well incorporated; stir in walnuts.
• Pour batter into a greased and floured 10-inch Bundt pan. Bake in preheated oven until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean, 55 minutes to 1 hour, 5 minutes. Transfer to a wire rack; let cool 10 minutes. Remove from pan; return cake to wire rack, and let cool completely, about 2 hours. Dust with powdered sugar.

PERSIMMON CAKE WITH CREAM CHEESE ICING

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350°F (175°C). Coat a 10-cup (2.5-liter) Bundt cake or tube pan with butter or nonstick cooking spray.
• To make the cake, in a small saucepan over medium heat, bring the currants and brandy or whiskey to a boil. Remove from the heat, cover, and let cool.
• Into a large bowl, sift together the flour, baking soda, cinnamon, salt, and nutmeg. Stir in the granulated sugar. In a medium bowl, mix together the 3/4 cup (6 ounces/170 g) melted butter, persimmon purée, eggs, and 2 teaspoons vanilla.
• Make a well in the center of the flour mixture, add the persimmon mixture, and gently stir. Fold in the currants, along with any unabsorbed liquid, and the nuts. Mix just until everything is moistened; don't overmix.
• Scrape the batter into the prepared pan and bake until a toothpick inserted into the cake comes out clean, about 1 hour. Remove from the oven and let cool completely. Once cool, invert the cake onto a serving plate.
• To make the icing, in a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, beat together the cream cheese and 1 tablespoon butter on high speed until smooth. Beat in the 1/2 teaspoon vanilla and the lemon juice, then gradually add the powdered sugar, beating on high speed until smooth. Add the 4 teaspoons water; the icing should be pourable. If necessary, add 1 more teaspoon water.
• Spoon the icing around the top of the cake, then tap the plate on a folded kitchen towel on the countertop to encourage the icing to run down the sides of the cake.
• Storage:
• This cake will keep for 4 days at room temperature.
• Variations:
• If you don't have persimmons, or if they're not in season, you can substitute unsweetened applesauce or banana purée for the persimmon purée.

PERSIMMON BUNDT CAKE

Steps:

• Position rack in center of oven and preheat to 350°F.
• Butter and flour Bundt pan.
• Peel persimmons.
• Press pulp through coarse sieve into medium bowl.
• Measure 1 1/3 cups persimmon puree into small bowl.
• Mix baking soda into puree and set aside.
• Beat sugar and butter in large bowl until blended (mixture will be grainy).
• Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating well after each addition.
• Mix in vanilla.
• Sift flour, cinnamon, salt, allspice and cloves into butter mixture; blend well using rubber spatula.
• Mix in persimmon mixture, walnuts and currants.
• Transfer batter to prepared pan.
• Bake cake until tester comes out clean, about 55 minutes.
• Cook cake in pan on rack 5 minutes.
• Turn out cake onto rack; cool completely.
• Sift confectioners' sugar over cake.

GLUTEN-FREE PERSIMMON PECAN CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400°F.
• Grease a 8" round cake pan.
• In a large bowl, mix persimmon pulp, eggs, butter, buttermilk and vanilla.
• In a separate bowl, mix flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, salt and spices.
• Slowly fold the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients.
• Mix until thoroughly combined.
• Add chopped nuts and stir to incorporate.
• Pour into cake pan and bake for about 50 minutes.
• When done, the center will still be very moist and soft (it may seem undercooked), but the outside of the cake should have formed a firm crust and be well-browned.
• Remove from oven and allow to cool in the pan for at least 20 minutes before serving.
• Slice and serve warm.

FUYU BUNDT CAKE

Steps:

• Grease and flour a bundt cake pan.
• Preheat oven to 350.
• Blend baking soda with chopped fuyus. Set aside.
• In a large bowl beat butter with sugar. Add eggs, lemon juice and vanilla and beat until fluffy.
• Stir in fuyu mix.
• Sift together flour, baking powder, salt, ground cloves, cinnamon and nutmeg.
• Stir flour mixture into fuyu mixture until just blended.
• Stir in walnuts and raisins.
• Pour (Spoon, it will be thick) into prepared bundt pan. Bake at 350 for 55-60 minutes or until toothpick tests clean.
• Cool in pan 15 minutes. Turn onto rack.
• When cool, dust with powdered sugar, if desired.

FUYU PERSIMMON CAKE WITH CARMALIZED BROWN SUGAR TOPPING

Steps:

• 1. In small bowl mix persimmons and baking soda, set aside.
• 2. In large bowl cream butter, sugar, evaporated milk and eggs together. Stir baking powder into flour or sift together. Slowly add flour mixture to creamed. Then add the persimmons and stir until well distributed in batter. Pour into a 9x13 greased pan.
• 3. Bake at 350 degrees for about 45 min or until toothpick comes clean.
• 4. For the topping--put a small pot on the stove and combine sugar, evaporated milk and butter. Let come to boil. When sugar is dissolved take off heat and add vanilla.
• 5. Take a butter knife and make lots of slits. This doesn't look pretty but it get the topping to seep in well. Pour topping into center of cake and spread all over, making sure it goes in between the cake and the pan. Let sit till cooled. The topping will firm up. Cut and serve.

PERSIMMON PUDDING CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400°F and lightly grease an 8" square baking pan.
• In a large bowl, mix the persimmon pulp, eggs, butter, milk and vanilla.
• In a separate bowl, sift the flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, salt, and spices together.
• Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients, a third at a time, fully incorporating after each addition.
• Add the chopped nuts.
• Bake until done (about 45 minutes).
• Cool.
• To serve, top with a dollop of whipped cream.