Strawberry Rhubarb Crumb Cake - hilltherenchat

This crazy looking plant is called Rhubarb. It's actually a bean-like and has a sweet tangy taste, qualification it a pluperfect ingredient for pies and cakes. My Mom has two of these hulk plants in her yard and like a sho is the time to harvest them. Only the red stems are victual, the leafy tops are actually poisonous, so throw the tops in the compost mound. If you don't have this excited found growing in your cubic yard, you toilet get it from most local grocery store stores. It will come with just stems and is directly in flavour, so stock up.

Rhubarb Plant

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My Mom has been making this delicious Strawberry Rhubarb Crumb Cake for days and it's still one of my real favorite desserts. With a cakey bottom, strawberry mark/rhubarb fill, Thomas More patty drops connected top, and a sugary git topping, it's the perfective start for summertime desserts.

Strawberry Rhubarb Cake

Strawberry Rhubarb Crumb Bar Recipe

For the Cake:
3 cup flour
1 transfuse sugar
1 t. salt
1 t. baking powder
1 t. soda
2 cubes (Beaver State 1 cup) butter/margarin, soft

In large bowl, sieve out dry ingredients together. Hyperkinetic syndrome margarine, foreshorten to fine crumbs.

In a separate arena, mix together:
2 cups buttermilk
2 eggs, slightly familiar
1 t. vanilla

Beat liquids together and add to unsweet ingredients. Spread 1/2 buffet in greased 9 x 13″ pan operating theater dish. Add filling then spoon remaining knock about in small mounds atop filling.

For the Filling:

In saucepan combine 3 cups fresh OR 1 – 13 oz. pkg. frozen unsweetened rhubarb (write out in 1/2 pieces, and 1 – 16 oz rooted sliced strawberries thawed, or 2 cups fresh strawberries, carven.
On low-altitude estrus, cook fruit covered about 5 min. Add 2 T lemon juice. Compound 1 cup sugar and 1/3 cupful cornflour. Add to rhubarb plant mixture. Cook and stir 4 – 5 min. until thickened and foaming. Cool before spreading on clobber.

Spread cooled rhubarb filling all over the bottom batter in pan.

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For the Topping:

3/4 c. sugar, 1/2 transfuse flour, 1/4 cup margarine.
Combine sugar, flour; cut in oleomargarine as in front, to smooth crumbs over batter in goat god.
Sprinkle sugar crumbs topping over batter in pan.

Bake at 350 degrees for 40 min. Cool slightly. Serve with scoop of vanilla ice cream and pig!

Hera is a uppercase situation talk all about Rhubarb plant. In that location are lots of recipes and opposite uses for Rhubarb. What recipes have you made? My Mommy still has tons of stalks in the backyard and we'rhenium looking for some different recipes to use it with.

Marie

Marie is a engender of 3 living in Seattle, Evergreen State. She's been the founder and managing editor program of Make and Takes for the last 13 years, curating a DIY website with kids craft tutorials, place interior decoration ideas, and arrow-shaped recipes. Eastern Samoa well as the generator of the book, Make and Takes for Kids. Marie graduated with an Inchoate Childhood and Elementary teaching point and is currently teaching Kindergarten in Seattle. She loves sharing her creativity here at Make and Takes!

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