Whaaaaaaa? It's MoFo over today! I actually had to double take when I looked at the calendar! I'm not sure what I'll be able to do with myself after September.
For today's fusion challenge (gentle, MoFo-missing sob), I thought I should I bring together two of my favourite foods: Japanese and cake.
For today's fusion challenge (gentle, MoFo-missing sob), I thought I should I bring together two of my favourite foods: Japanese and cake.
Before you leap in to tell me that Japanese people do indeed eat cake, I should point out I'm mixing up traditional Japanese flavours like miso, soy, and sake with traditional cake flavours. Like cake.
I thought I'd hark back to an ancient MoFo too - a couple of years ago, when I was cooking my way through an A to Z of new ingredients, I ate my first persimmon, served up in a shojin ryori recipe (Shojin ryori being the vegan cooking of Japanese Buddhist monks).
Said persimmon was sliced up and wrapped in a sauce of brown sugar, sake, and walnuts, and it's my inspiration for this cake.
Persimmon and walnut crumble cake
Ingredients - dry
225g self-raising flour
1tsp baking powder
50g dark brown sugar
25g light brown sugar
Two very ripe persimmons, cut into small chunks
Ingredients - wet
150g silken tofu
25g sesame seeds
1/2 tsp brown miso
1tbsp sake
75g vegetable oil
50mls non-dairy milk
Dash of soy sauce
Ingredients - crumble
50g walnuts, chopped
35g dark brown sugar
15g flour
Knob of vegan spread
How you do it
Preheat the oven to 200C.
Combine the dry ingredients in one bowl.
In a separate bowl, stir together the walnuts, sugar and flour until mixed, then stir in the vegan spread until you have a sticky mess.
In a separate bowl, using a hand blender, blend together the wet ingredients until you have a smooth paste.
Add the wet ingredients to the dry, and mix together until well mixed.
Pour the cake mix into a greased loaf tin, then top with the crumble mix.
Bake for 40 minutes, or until a skewer inserted in the middle of the cake comes out clean. (Check after 25 minutes, and if the crumble is getting too brown, cover the cake.)
Whaaaaaaa? It's MoFo over today! I actually had to double take when I looked at the calendar! I'm not sure what I'll be able to ...