Fuyu Persimmon Cake With Carmalized Brown Sugar Topping Food

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 CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 300 degrees F (150 degrees C). Grease and flour a 9x13 inch cake pan.
• Whisk together the flour baking powder, baking soda, salt, and sugar in a bowl, set aside. Whisk together the eggs, persimmon pulp, milk, and vanilla extract in a separate bowl until smooth. Fold the persimmon mixture into the flour mixture until no dry lumps remain. Pour into the prepared pan.
• Bake in preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, about 1 hour 15 minutes. Cool in the pan for 10 minutes, then remove from the pan, and allow to cool completely on a wire rack before icing.

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.

PERSIMMON COFFEE CAKE

Steps:

• Cream butter, sour cream, vanilla persimmon pulp, sugar and eggs together.
• Add flour, baking powder, salt and mix well.
• Mix topping ingredients and set aside.
• Spread half of the batter into a greased tube pan; sprinkle half of topping mixture over batter.
• Spread remaining half of batter into pan and add remainder of topping.
• Bake at 350 degrees until done about 30 minutes but this will depend on the moisture content of the persimmons.

PERSIMMON UPSIDE DOWN CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat an oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a 9-inch round cake pan.
• Place the margarine and brown sugar in the cake pan and transfer the pan to the hot oven until the sugar is melted and bubbly, about 5 minutes. Remove from the oven; arrange the persimmon slices over the topping in the cake pan.
• Beat the butter and sugar with an electric mixer in a large bowl until light and fluffy. The mixture should be noticeably lighter in color. Stir in the persimmon pulp. In a separate bowl, combine the flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves. Gradually add the flour mixture to the batter, stirring just to mix. The batter will be stiff, since the only liquid comes from the persimmon pulp. Stir in the pecans and lemon zest.
• Spoon the cake batter evenly over the persimmon slices and return the cake pan to the preheated oven. Bake until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, about 30 minutes. Cool in the pan for 10 minutes before inverting the cake right-side-up on a serving platter.