This vanilla and rhubarb buckle, a brighter cousin to the standard American-style teatime cake, is ideal for the chilly months when pressured rhubarb shines
- Preparation and cooking time
- Prep:40 minutes
- Prepare dinner:1 hr and 10 minutes
- Straightforward
- Serves 8
- Freezable
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Elements
For the crumble topping
- 50g plain flour
- 50g golden caster sugar
- ½ tsp floor ginger
- 50g unsalted butter, chilled
- 25g rolled oat
For the rhubarb filling
- 225g skinny, pressured rhubarb, trimmed, rinsed and minimize into 2.5cm/1in-long items
- 50g golden caster sugar
- zest 1 orange
For the vanilla cake
- 100g unsalted butter, room temperature, plus additional for greasing
- 200g golden caster sugar
- zest 1 orange
- 2 giant eggs
- 200g plain flour
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp vanilla bean paste
- 125ml soured cream
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Technique
- STEP 1
Warmth oven to 180C/160C fan/gasoline 4. Grease a deep 20cm spherical cake tin and line the bottom with baking parchment.
- STEP 2
To make the crumble topping, put the flour, sugar and ginger in a bowl and blend collectively. Add the butter and rub collectively till the combination resembles breadcrumbs. Stir within the oats and, utilizing your palms, convey the combination collectively right into a dough, wrap in cling movie and chill till wanted.
- STEP 3
Put the rhubarb items in a bowl with the sugar and orange zest, and blend collectively. Put aside when you make the cake batter.
- STEP 4
Put the butter, sugar and orange zest in a big bowl and, utilizing an electrical whisk, beat collectively till mild and fluffy, about 5 minutes. Add the eggs, one after the other, beating collectively till mixed earlier than including the subsequent.
- STEP 5
In a separate bowl, combine the flour, baking powder, vanilla paste and a pinch of salt collectively and, in two additions, fold into the butter combination, alternating with the soured cream. Tip into your cake tin and stage out with a spatula. High with the rhubarb combination and end by breaking the chilled crumble into irregular-sized items and scattering over the rhubarb. Bake within the oven for about 1 hr 10 minutes or till the crumble is golden and a skewer inserted into the center of the cake comes out clear. Test the cake after 1 hr – whether it is colouring too shortly, cowl calmly with foil for the ultimate 10 minutes.
- STEP 6
Enable to chill within the tin for 10 minutes earlier than rigorously transferring onto a wire rack to chill utterly. Will preserve in an hermetic container for as much as 3 days, however the crumble will lose a few of its texture after the primary day.