RHUBARB CAKE

Gardener:Jen

Date:03 Dec 2021

Blog Type:Recipes

If you love rhubarb, you probably need to try this cake!  It is a brilliant sweet & sour dessert type cake.

 

In a bowl mix 2 cups of plain flour, 3 tsp baking powder & 1 tsp cinnamon. Add 500g rhubarb chopped into 2cm pieces - mix well.

 

Put 60g softened butter and 1 & 2/3 cups brown sugar into a food processor and whizz. Add 2 eggs, zest of 1 lemon & 1 tsp vanilla extract. Add this to the rhubarb/ flour mix and stir well.

Add 250g sour cream and mix well again.

 

Spoon into a 23cm lined cake tin and bake at 160C for about 1 &1/4 hours, or until a skewer comes out clean.

 

1/2 way through the cooking time sprinkle 1/2 tsp cinnamon mixed with 1/2 tsp brown sugar over the cake. 

RHUBARB CAKE