Rhubarb Cake

Prep: 30min
| Servings: 12 | Cook: 45min
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Rhubarb cake is a recipe with fresh ingredients from the cake category. Try this and other recipes from Spoonsparrow!

Ingredients

  • 1 springform pan (26 cm Ø)
  • 750 g rhubarb
  • 0.125 water
  • 100 g sugar
  • 125 g softened butter
  • 125 g sugar
  • 1 packet vanilla sugar
  • 2 medium eggs
  • 100 g marzipan base
  • 250 g flour
  • 0.5 packet Baking powder
  • 2 Eggs
  • 150 g marzipan base
  • 40 g sugar

Instructions

  1. 1.

    Clean, trim, wash rhubarb and cut into pieces. Add water and sugar to a pot and bring to boil. Add rhubarb and cook for 2-3 minutes. Strain over a sieve, catch the liquid. Reduce the rhubarb liquid to one-eighth. Let both cool.

  2. 2.

    Beat butter until fluffy. Gradually add sugar, vanilla sugar, and eggs, mixing well after each addition.

  3. 3.

    Cut marzipan base into pieces. Add the reduced rhubarb liquid and mix with a fork until smooth.

  4. 4.

    Fold this into the batter. Sift flour with baking powder over the mixture and stir quickly.

  5. 5.

    Pour batter into a springform pan lined with parchment paper (26 cm diameter). Distribute rhubarb pieces on top and press lightly into the batter. Bake in a preheated oven at 200°C (180°C fan) for about 40 minutes. Remove and cool.

  6. 6.

    Separate eggs. Mix marzipan with yolks. Whisk egg whites until stiff, gradually adding sugar. Blend marzipan mixture with two tablespoons of meringue until smooth. Fold in remaining meringue. Fill a piping bag fitted with a large star tip and pipe a lattice over the cake. Bake in a preheated oven at 200°C for 8-10 minutes to brown.