Apple, pistachio and persimmon cake

A delicious, moreish, warm and cosy pudding of a cake this - made to use some apples from our friends Emma and Geraint's garden that I brought home after a lovely supper with them yesterday. 

Persimmon passionfruit cake

I invented this cake to use some persimmons or Sharon fruit that I'd found in the greengrocers - I've never tried them before, but they have a really unusual taste - a mixture of citrus, spice and tropical fruit.  I puréed the flesh in a blender and added it to an almond cake batter spiced with cinnamon. To fill and ice the cake I made a passionfruit whipped cream, and topped it with thin slices of persimmon. It was totally delicious and I will definitely be making this again!