Rhubarb Loaf Cake

Name: Rhubarb Loaf Cake
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 1 h
Total time: 70 min
Yield: 10
Ingredients: 1 1/2 cups all purpose flour; 1/2 teaspoon salt; 1/4 teaspoon baking powder; 1/4 teaspoon baking soda; 1 stick of butter; 1 cup of granulated sugar; 2 large eggs; 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract; 1/2 cup sour cream; 8 ounces rhubarb cut into a 1/2 inch dice; 2 cups powdered sugar, sifted; 2-4 tablespoons of milk; 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

by Sara's Tiny Kitchen

10 Slices

1 hr 10 min

This rhubarb loaf cake is an ideal and unexpected dessert to wow your friends and family this summer.

I feel like rhubarb doesn’t get to be the star of the show often enough. It’s always playing second fiddle to strawberries in summer dishes, and while that’s obviously a powerhouse couple, rhubarb on its own is absolutely delicious and totally worthy of being the main flavor in a dessert.

This cake comes to me via the shoebox full of recipe that my grandmother left to me. It’s written in her nurses’ scrawl on a 4x6 index card with pink stripes on the back. She has it marked as “rhubarb bread” but it’s definitely a cake.

It’s got a strong vanilla flavor, and the sour cream in the batter makes for a CRAZY moist cake. The rhubarb retains a little bit of it’s sourness during baking, which is the perfect compliment to the sweetness of the cake.

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Recipe details

Yield 10 Slices
Time spent: Prep time: 10 Minutes Cook time: 1 Hours Total time: 1 hr 10 min

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Ingredients

Rhubarb Loaf Cake

1 1/2 cups all purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
1 stick of butter
1 cup of granulated sugar
2 large eggs
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
1/2 cup sour cream
8 ounces rhubarb cut into a 1/2 inch dice

Glaze

2 cups powdered sugar, sifted
2-4 tablespoons of milk
1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Instructions

To Make Rhubarb Loaf Cake

Preheat your oven to 350 and line a 9x5 loaf pan with parchment paper so that it fits with some hanging over the long ends. You can use that to pull the cake out of the pan later. Spray the parchment paper with non-stick spray.
Add the flour to a medium bowl, and remove 1 tablespoon of it to a separate small bowl. Add the salt, baking powder and baking soda and whisk to combine.
In the bowl of a stand mixer, cream together the butter and sugar for at least 5 minutes, until pale yellow and fluffy.
Add the eggs one at a time, stirring after each addition.
Add the vanilla extract and stir.
Mix in half the flour and stir, then half the sour cream and stir again. Repeat with remaining flour and sour cream.
Toss the diced rhubarb with the 1 tablespoon of flour that you put off to the side earlier.
Add the diced rhubarb, and stir gently to combine.
Bake for 55-60 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the cake comes out clean.
Cool in the pan for 10 minutes, then remove the cake from the pan and finish cooling on a wire rack.
Once cake has cooled, add the glaze.

To make the Glaze

In a medium bowl, sift the powdered sugar through a fine mesh sieve to remove any lumps.
Stir in the milk, 1 tablespoon at a time until it reaches your desired glaze consistency.
Add the vanilla extract and stir to combine.

Comments

Tar6882085 on Aug 19, 2021

My mother-in-law use to make a rhubarb ginger jam that simply rocked. I suspect a bit of ginger added to this would just zing.

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- Sara's Tiny Kitchen on Aug 21, 2021
  
  That sounds absolutely delicious!
  
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- Lise Desbiens on Aug 22, 2021
  
  i would love the recipe!!
  
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Ardia Neves on Aug 19, 2021

Will this freeze?

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- Sara's Tiny Kitchen on Aug 21, 2021
  
  It should freeze pretty well! Just make sure to wrap it well, and dont put the glaze on before freezing. The rhubarb thaws to a different texture, but it's not unpleasant!
  
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