Rhubarb Cinnamon Cake
- Ready In:
- 1hr 5mins
- Ingredients:
- 12
- Yields:
-
1 Large cake
- Serves:
- 10
ingredients
- 120 g butter, at room temperature, plus extra for greasing the cake tin
- 300 g caster sugar
- 1 large egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 250 g plain flour, plus extra for dusting
- 2 teaspoons bicarbonate of soda
- 230 ml semi skim milk
- 1 teaspoon lemon juice
- 500 g rhubarb, chopped fairly small (but see note in method, below.)
- 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 100 g light brown sugar
directions
- Pre-heat the oven to 180°C.
- Prepare a 25cm / 10in cake tin by greasing thoroughly and dusting with a fine layer of plain flour.
- Cream the butter and sugar together until pale and fluffy. add in the egg and vanilla extract and mix well.
- Mix together the semi-skimmed milk and lemon juice. add to the other ingredients and beat until combined.
- Add the bicarbonate of soda and then gradually add the flour, beating well after each addition. Add two teaspons of the cinnamon, and mix until it is all well combined.
- Take the chopped rhubarb (I divide the stalks into two longwise, then chop into slices about the thickness of a one Pound / Euro coin).
- NOTE As the rhubarb is cut small it will rise, giving a rhubarby "layer" on top of the cake. If you don't like this idea, don't cut the rhubarb so small - keep it in 1cm or so chunks and dust it with a very little plain flour before incorporating. Fold it into the cake batter.
- Pour the batter into the prepared tin and level with the back of a spoon.
- Sprinkle the top with the light brown sugar (use less if you don't have a sweet tooth), crumbling any lumps between your fingers as you go.
- Finally sprinkle the top with the remaining teaspon of cinnamon - or more to taste.
- Bake in the centre of the preheated oven for 50 minutes, or until a toothpick comes out clean.
- Leave to cool in the tin for 15 mins, then turn out onto a wire rack to cool completely.
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