Rhubarb and Custard Cake – Supergolden Bakes

July 4, 2023

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This straightforward Rhubarb and Custard Cake is simple to make and excellent for sharing. A fluffy vanilla sponge with rhubarb and custard baked proper into the batter. Scrumptious as a teatime deal with or served with ice cream for dessert!

Additionally, you will love my Rhubarb Crumble with Oat Crumble Topping 🙂

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Rhubarb and custard are such a traditional flavour combo! I completely love the tanginess of rhubarb contrasted with the creamy sweetness of custard.

This simple rhubarb custard cake takes minutes to arrange and can disappear simply as shortly, mark my phrases. Merely dusted with icing sugar it makes for excellent breakfast snacking cake.

Add some heat custard or vanilla ice cream and your rhubarb cake is prepared for the ball 🙂

rhubarb custard cake traybake, sliced overhead shot

RHUBARB CUSTARD CAKE INGREDIENTS

Let’s check out what substances we might want to make this cake.

Rhubarb: pressured rhubarb will present a prettier color however common rhubarb is simply as scrumptious if a bit much less showy! You can even use a mixture of rhubarb and strawberries for those who like.
Strawberry jelly powder: I blended my diced rhubarb with strawberry jelly crystals simply so as to add a touch of strawberry sweetness. That is non-compulsory although – be at liberty to skip fully.
Each plain flour (all objective flour) with added baking powder or self elevating flour by itself can be utilized.
Sugar: I used caster sugar (superfine sugar)
Massive eggs
Softened butter or baking unfold corresponding to Stork
Vanilla bean paste or vanilla extract
Custard powder, sugar, milk and butter (see recipe notes)
Flaked almonds, to prime

HOW TO MAKE THIS RHUBARB AND CUSTARD CAKE

Full measurements and directions will be discovered on the printable recipe card on the backside of the web page. Please check out the steps and video earlier than making an attempt this recipe!

Preheat the oven to 170°C (340°F). Line a 9×13 inch with baking paper or a reusable liner. Cube the rhubarb into small items, with out peeling it. Rinse effectively, pat dry and sprinkle with the strawberry jelly crystals, if utilizing.

Measure the flour, sugar and baking powder right into a mixing bowl and stir to mix. Add the vanilla bean paste, eggs and baking unfold and beat along with a hand or stand mixer till the batter is easy. Use a spatula to scrape the perimeters and backside of your bowl midway by to ensure all of the substances are effectively blended.

beating rhubarb cake batter with an electric hand mixer

PREPARE THE CUSTARD

Add the custard powder, sugar and milk right into a saucepan and stir to mix. Prepare dinner over low warmth for about 5 minutes, stirring, till the custard thickens.

Take off the warmth and stir within the vanilla and butter. Press some clingfilm on prime of the custard to forestall a pores and skin forming except you’re utilizing immediately.

LAYER CAKE INGREDIENTS INTO CAKE PAN

Spoon about three quarters of the batter into your ready cake pan. Add the diced rhubarb over the batter, spreading it out. Don’t press the rhubarb into the batter, simply scatter it excessive.

Dollop the custard over the rhubarb, spacing it out so there’s gaps. Add the remaining batter to fill in these gaps, with out spreading it an excessive amount of. Scatter the flaked almonds on prime.

rhubarb and custard cake ingredients layered in a lined cake pan

Bake for an hour (or as much as 75 minutes) or till the cake is risen, golden and springy to the contact. Enable the cake to chill within the cake pan for ten minutes earlier than lifting it out of the pan and cooling on a wire rack. Mud with icing sugar, slice and revel in!

Rhubarb and custard cake traybake sliced on a pink background

RECIPE NOTES

You don’t want to peel or precook the rhubarb for this cake recipe. If the rhubarb stalk is de facto thick you possibly can slice it in half lengthwise earlier than dicing.
The rhubarb will sink into the batter because the cake bakes. For that reason keep away from urgent the rhubarb into the batter, merely place it on prime of it.
Immediate custard powder (Hen’s Conventional Custard Powder) is a quite common ingredient within the UK. Custard powder is basically cornstarch, colouring and vanilla flavouring to which you add sugar, milk and butter. Within the US you possibly can substitute with prompt Vanilla Pudding, leaving out the sugar as it’s already included.
Storage: This cake is greatest served on the day it’s baked. It should hold for a few days in a lined container away from direct warmth. You can even retailer it within the fridge, wrapped in foil.
Are you able to freeze rhubarb and custard cake? You may freeze the cake complete or in slices for as much as three months, effectively wrapped. Thaw in a single day within the fridge earlier than serving.

close up on slices of rhubarb custard cake, some on their side to show the interior texture

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