sweet persimmon spiced hazelnut cake with white chocolate ganache

just the other day i sent ryan to the grocery store to pick up some tomatoes for the cilantro lime chicken soup i was going to make.  he came back with a bag full of "tomatoes" that were orange and soft and lacked the squeeky feel of tomatoes.  it turned out they weren't tomatoes, they were persimmons.

so here i was in a tiny kitchen, preparing a pot of soup with persimmons at my side.  i had never worked with persimmons before, but i assumed they were often used in dessert-like dishes.  the only reason i assumed that is because i have owned candles that had the word persimmon in the flavor description.

i decided to whip together a sweet persimmon spiced hazelnut cake with a white chocolate ganache.  it turned out lovely.