Erica's Rhubarb Cake

WiGal's Note:

This decadent cake came from a student's grandmother, and was the child's request for her class treat. Her mother also put confectioners frosting on it while hot and sprinkled with some chopped pecans. The class loved this, and so does my family:) The rhubarb and the batter.

• Total Time: 1 hrs 25 mins
• Prep Time: 30 mins
• Cook Time: 55 mins

Ingredients:

Servings: 18

• 2 cups flour
• 3/4 teaspoon salt
• 1 3/4 cups sugar, divided
• 2 1/4 teaspoons baking powder
• 3/4 cup butter
• 3 eggs
• 3/4 cup milk
• 6 cups rhubarb, chopped

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
2. Put flour, salt, 3/4 cup of sugar, and baking powder in large mixing bowl. Add butter and cut into until crumbly.
3. Beat eggs in small bowl.
4. Add eggs and milk to flour mixture.
5. Stir together like muffins.
6. In separate large bowl, (make sure rhubarb is dry or it adds wetness to cake) put chopped rhubarb and 1 cup of sugar.
7. Mix the rhubarb and sugar together.
8. Put 2/3 of the cake mixture into a 13 X 9 inch that you did not grease, I repeat do not grease.
9. Pour rhubarb on top.
10. Drop remaining cake mix on top of the rhubarb.
11. Bake for 55 minutes, or until toothpick comes out clean.

Reviews

[momjan]

Most excellent recipe. I added a bit of cinnamon to the rhubarb-sugar combo. Topped it with vanilla ice cream or some whipped cream...yum...

[Dienia B.]

really easy the boys loved this cake was going to throw in frezer for him but it didnt make it that far sprinkles sugar in the raw on top made it pretty

[Brooke the Cook in WI]

I don't think I've made a rhubarb cake before and this one was easy enough for someone who doesn't have much luck in the cake baking department (I never do!) - super moist and sweet without being overly sweet. Like another reviewer, I used splenda and whole wheat flour without any trouble - although I think my cake would have been fluffier if I had used all white flour and sugar. When I added the rhubarb there was a bit of wet sugary mix that remained in the bottom of the bowl - I didn't add it for fear that the cake would become soggy; I would add it next time though. Made for ZWT6.