Persimmon Brown Butter Upside-Down Cake
Persimmons are one of autumn's most underused gifts — brilliant orange, honey-sweet, with a flavor that sits somewhere between apricot, vanilla, and something entirely its own.
Blood Orange Olive Oil Cake
Olive oil cakes have the texture that butter cakes can only aspire to: dense without being heavy, moist without being wet, with a crumb that is simultaneously tender and substantial.