Fuyu Persimmon Cake

Most of the persimmon recipes I've found involve using persimmon pulp.  On the Food Librarian site, I found a recipe for Fuyu persimmon bundt cake, which calls for the use of hard persimmons.

The recipe calls for three cups of persimmons, so if you have a lot of fuyu persimmons, this is a great way to use some up.  The taste had a bit too much spice for my personal taste, but other people really enjoyed the cake.

Here is the recipe with some modifications:

Ingredients

3 cups of chopped firm Fuyu persimmons
2 tsp baking soda
1/2 cup butter
2/3 cup sugar
2 eggs
2 tsp vanilla
2 cups flour
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
1 tsp ground cloves
1 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp nutmeg
1 cup chopped walnuts
3/4 cup raisins

Directions

1. Grease and flour a bundt cake pan. Preheat oven to 350.

2. Blend 2 tsp. baking soda into 3 cups of chopped firm Fuyus. Set aside.

3. In a large bowl, beat 1/2 cup soft butter with 1 2/3 cups sugar. Add 2 eggs, and 2 tsp. vanilla and beat until fluffy. Stir in Fuyu mix.

4. Sift together 2 cups flour, 1 tsp. baking powder, 1 tsp. salt, 1 tsp. ground
cloves, 1 tsp. cinnamon, and 1/2 tsp. nutmeg. Stir flour into Fuyu mixture just
until blended. Add 1 cup chopped walnuts and 3/4 cup raisins.

5. Pour into prepared bundt pan. Bake at 350 for 55 – 60 minutes or until
toothpick tests clean. Cool in pan 15 minutes. Turn onto rack.

Black Jack Taco- Quick post

A quick post.  On Halloween, Taco Bell offered each of their customers a Black Jack Taco.  The tacos are also on their menu for a limited time.  I was nearby Taco Bell on my way home from dinner on Halloween and decided to stop in for one. 

It tastes like any normal taco bell supreme, but I like the idea of a black shell.

Chewy Molasses Cookies

I've never made molasses cookies before, and after seeing several recipes, I decided to try one out.  I chose to make chewy molasses cookies from allrecipes.com

The recipe was easy to put together, but you do need to plan ahead because you need to chill the dough for an hour in the fridge.  My first batch, I made the cookie balls too big and the cookies spread out too much.  So for my next batches, I reduced the size of the dough balls by half.  The cookies are crispy on the outside, and chewy on the inside. 

Directions