Easy Rhubarb Upside Down Cake

"A easy delicious cake/dessert."
 
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Ready In:
1hr 20mins
Ingredients:
9
Yields:
1 9x13 cake
Serves:
12
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ingredients

  • 1 (18 ounce) package lemon cake mix or (18 ounce) package white cake mix
  • 3 eggs (or as called for by your cake mix) or 3 egg whites (or as called for by your cake mix)
  • 13 cup oil (or as called for by your cake mix)
  • 1 teaspoon lemon extract
  • 1 13 cups water (or as called for by your cake mix)
  • 4 cups rhubarb, cut up 1/2 inch pieces
  • 6 teaspoons minute tapioca
  • 1 12 cups sugar
  • 1 (3 ounce) package strawberry Jell-O gelatin dessert or (3 ounce) package raspberry Jell-O gelatin
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directions

  • Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
  • Grease 9x13inch pan.
  • Mix together Rhubarb, tapioca, sugar and package of DRY jello (NO WATER) and pour into prepared pan.
  • Prepare cake mix according to package directions (adding the lemon extract to the wet ingredients) and pour over Rhubarb mixture.
  • Bake 1 hour.
  • Serve with whipped cream or ice cream.

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Reviews

  1. Awesome! I did let the rhubarb sit in the sugar, jello and tapioca for a half hour and it had started to get nice and gooey by that time. Tasted fantastic, and easy to make. The crowd at work raved about it!
     
  2. This was a hit!! I love that it uses 4 cups of rhubarb. I will be making this again and when I do, I will make it a more generous (heaping) 4 cups. It also does not need an hour to bake the cake. Following the baking instructions on the box will be adequate. I cut the time down to 45 minutes because the top of the cake was getting brown. Probably 40 minutes is enough.
     
  3. Growing up my mom would make Strawberry & Rhubarb crisp and it was always my favourite dessert; this one is definitely its competition!! OMG this was amazing! The changes I made was adding a teaspoon of lemon extract to the wet ingredients for the cake mix, substituting 2 cups rhubarb with strawberries and mixing 1/2 the sugar in with the fruit because I like the tartness of rhubarb; and it was a hit!
     
  4. This was very easy! Overall - the cake could have been better though....<br/>My tapioca also did not cook (and yes, I let it sit in the rhubarb/sugar/jello mixture for a little over 30 minutes before pouring into the cake pan.) Thing is - I really do not think you need the tapioca with the jello in there. Mine set-up quite nicely even with the uncooked tapioca. It was not too liquidy at all. I used lemon cake and the flavor was great! A nice combo. I will try this again completely omitting the tapioca and submit another review. If that works - I would give this 4 - 4.5 stars with the adjustment.
     
  5. This really reminds me of springtime. I decided on this cake since I love Pineapple Upsidedown Cake. This was great and unlike anything else I've ever tried. Thank you for the recipe!
     
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  1. Growing up my mom would make Strawberry and Rhubarb crisp and it was always my favourite dessert; this one is definitely its competition!! OMG this was amazing! The changes I made was adding a teaspoon of lemon extract to the wet ingredients for the cake mix, substituting 2 cups rhubarb with strawberries and mixing 1/2 the sugar in with the fruit because I like the tartness of rhubarb; and it was a hit!
     

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