Rhubarb Crumble Cake|RECIPE

Directly from my kitchen to you, presenting my HEALTHIER take on Rhubarb crumble cake.

For those who don't know, Rhubarb is a vegetable (although often used in making desserts), it is short, think, fleshy sour stalks. They also come green in color, but most preferred by this beautiful red or pink color, just so pretty. Also, in traditional Chinese medicine, rhubarb roots of several species were used as laxative.

Pink rhubarb stalks

To bake this rhubarb crumble cake, we must follow 3 steps - rhubarb syrup, preparation of crumble and cake batter. This is how my final product looked like, delicious, isn't it ? :)

Rhubarb Crumble Cake - soooo delicious

Here's the recipe for Rhubarb crumble cake, straight from my kitchen:

Ingredients:

200 gm unsalted butter

70 gm light brown sugar

2 eggs

Oats and flax seeds

Self raising flour

2 tsp vanilla extract

1 tsp baking soda

1 bunch of Rhubarb (4/5 stalks) -washed and chopped

Rhubarb syrup

Wash, rinse and cut Rhubarb stalks in cubes.

Add 50 gm brown sugar.

Simmer in low flame until the rhubarbs get mushy.

Making rhubarb syrup

Preparation of Crumble

Cube 100 gm butter, toss with the flour and oats.

Use your fingertips to mix the butter until the mixture resembles breadcrumbs with few larger pieces of butter.

Add little sugar and a pinch of salt.

Crumble preparation for the cake

Cake batter

Grind Oats and flax seeds into fine powder

Add flour, 1 tsp baking soda

Add melted 100 gm butter

Add 20 gm sugar and pinch of salt

Add 2 eggs

Mix vanilla extract

Mix milk (optional) to make a consistent batter

Batter preparation

Final Step: Layering

For the layering: On a greased baking tray, first goes the cake batter, next rhubarb syrup and on top the crumble.

Bake for 30 to 40 minutes, 200 degree Celsius until golden and bubbling.

Tip: do not press the rhubarb syrup.

Serve with a scoop of ice cream or just plain with a cup of chai or coffee. It is so so good.

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Until next time,

Eat. Exercise. Explore.

Love and hugs, always,

Smriti