Persimmons Coffee Cake

Persimmons Coffee Cake

How to use those many spoon-soft persimmons that still hung so late in the year? I’d eaten so many fresh off the tree it’s a wonder I didn’t turn orange. Yet even after picking pound after pound, the trees seemed as full of fruit as 

Persimmons!

Persimmons!

Years ago, when I first moved in with Mr. Hollywood, I planted a persimmon tree. Emboldened by the success of Edible Landscaping‘s on-site trees, and seduced by the inimitable flavor of the fruit, which happened to be in season when I visited there, I planted