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Treat yourself with Vegusto: Recipe No. 181

To enjoy… Kaki/Persimmon Gugelhupf

This Gugelhupf reveals its secret when it is cut: It is refined with fine sun-dried Ticino persimmons. Seductive in fragrance and deliciously sweet in taste.

Preparation

Cut the dried persimmons into 1 cm pieces. Place the kaki pieces in a bowl and pour the boiling water over. Soak the kakis in the hot water for 15 minutes.
In the meantime, put all other dry ingredients in a bowl and mix.
Then add the plant drink and the oil. Mix everything with a hand mixer until it forms a homogeneous mixture.
Now drain the soaking water from the persimmons. Carefully fold the persimmon pieces into the batter with a spatula.
Grease the Gugelhupf mould with a bit of margarine and dust with flour.
Preheat oven to 180°C.
Pour the batter into the Gugelhupf form, and bake on the second lowest rack for 50 minutes.
After 50 minutes, check with a toothpick. If the toothpick does not come out clean, bake for another 10 minutes.
After baking, allow the Gugelhupf to cool for a few minutes. Then turn out of the mould onto a plate and dust with icing sugar.

If you like, you can add some rum flavour to the batter.