Rhubarb buckle

Fruity cake recipe for 8 people, takes only 10 mins; recipe has plain flour, golden caster sugar, ground ginger, butter, oat, rhubarb, golden caster sugar, orange, butter, golden caster sugar, orange, large egg, plain flour, baking powder, vanilla bean paste and soured cream.

Rhubarb buckle

Rhubarb buckle

Recipe by Chef Soomro Course: Fruity cake
Servings

8

servings
Prep time

40 mins

Ingredients

  • Soured Cream: 125ml soured cream
  • Butter: 50g unsalted butter, chilled
  • Orange: zest 1 orange
  • Plain Flour: 50g plain flour
  • Baking Powder: 2 tsp baking powder
  • Golden Caster Sugar: 50g golden caster sugar
  • Large Egg: 2 large eggs
  • Vanilla Bean Paste: 1 tsp vanilla bean paste
  • Ground Ginger: 1/2 tsp ground ginger
  • Oat: 25g rolled oat
  • Rhubarb: 225g thin, forced rhubarb, trimmed, rinsed and cut into 2 1/2 cm/1in-long pieces

Directions

  1. Heat oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4. Grease a deep 20cm round cake tin and line the base with baking parchment.
  2. To make the crumble topping, put the flour, sugar and ginger in a bowl and mix together. Add the butter and rub together until the mixture resembles breadcrumbs. Stir in the oats and, using your hands, bring the mixture together into a dough, wrap in cling film and chill until needed.
  3. Put the rhubarb pieces in a bowl with the sugar and orange zest, and mix together. Set aside while you make the cake batter.
  4. Put the butter, sugar and orange zest in a large bowl and, using an electric whisk, beat together until light and fluffy, about 5 mins. Add the eggs, one at a time, beating together until combined before adding the next.
  5. In a separate bowl, mix the flour, baking powder, vanilla paste and a pinch of salt together and, in two additions, fold into the butter mixture, alternating with the soured cream. Tip into your cake tin and level out with a spatula. Top with the rhubarb mixture and finish by breaking the chilled crumble into irregular-sized pieces and scattering over the rhubarb. Bake in the oven for about 1 hr 10 mins or until the crumble is golden and a skewer inserted into the middle of the cake comes out clean. Check the cake after 1 hr - if it is colouring too quickly, cover lightly with foil for the final 10 mins.
  6. Allow to cool in the tin for 10 mins before carefully transferring onto a wire rack to cool completely. Will keep in an airtight container for up to 3 days, but the crumble will lose some of its texture after the first day.