Rhubarb Cake

By Natoora
Rhubarb cake makes the most of one of Britain’s most delicious seasonal ingredients. This recipe from Alix Caiger of Caiger & Co. makes a light dessert, scented with almond and vanilla, and the delicious tart edge of…
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Ingredients

10 total
  • 300 g of rhubarb, thinly sliced
  • 100 g of self raising flour
  • 200 g of ground almonds
  • 230 g of caster sugar
  • 1 tsp of baking powder
  • 2 eggs
  • 150 g of plain yogurt
  • 1 tsp of vanilla essence
  • 1 tsp of almond essence
  • 125 g of unsalted butter, melted, plus extra to grease tin

Method

5 steps
  1. Step 1

    Grease and line a 9'' cake tin. Heat the oven to 180C with the rack in the middle.

  2. Step 2

    In a large bowl, mix together the flour, ground almonds, sugar, baking powder and a pinch of salt. In a smaller bowl, whisk the eggs with the yogurt, essences and melted butter.

  3. Step 3

    Incorporate the wet mixture into dry ingredients, just until no dry patches are left. Add the rhubarb. Try not to over-mix.

  4. Step 4

    Pour into a prepared tin, level off and bake for 40 minutes or until just cooked through and golden brown.

  5. Step 5

    Leave to cool in the tin for 15 minutes. Carefully turn out to finish cooling on a rack.