rhubarb crumble cake and canada day

rhubarb crumble cake and canada day

1 Jul 2013

A few months ago I made a Plum Crumble Cake for my Delicious Bites column on decor8. One of the readers suggested adapting the cake to make a rhubarb crumble cake. I thought that was a great idea and when I saw rhubarb was on sale at my local fruit shop I decided to give it a go.



Once upon a time I discovered the 'More Gretta Anna Recipes' cookbook. Inside was a recipe for plum cake and over time I've adapted the recipe so many times I can't remember the original recipe. This rhubarb crumble cake is my latest adaption of the recipe.



Rhubarb is one of my favourite fruits so while the cake was baking I made a batch of oven baked rhubarb to put on my breakfast.



The cake rose high and handsome and the whole house smelt of cinnamon.



Here's the recipe for you.



Rhubarb Crumble Cake
Crumble Topping
¼ cup (55 gm) brown sugar

¼ cup (35 gm) plain flour

½ teaspoon ground cinnamon

½ cup (60 gm) pecans or walnuts

30 grams (1 oz) cold unsalted butter cut into small chunks

½ cup chopped rhubarb

Cake Ingredients

250 grams unsalted butter

½ cup caster sugar

½ cup light brown sugar

2 eggs

1½ cups self raising flour

½ cup plain flour

1 teaspoon cinnamon

175 mls buttermilk

2 cups chopped rhubarb 

Grease and line the base of a 23 cm springform tin. Preheat the oven to 190°C. 

To make the topping, combine the flour, brown sugar and cinnamon in a food processor. Add the pecans and butter and pulse until just combined. Place the crumble topping in a small bowl and refrigerate while making the cake.

In a large bowl, cream the butter and sugars together until light and fluffy. Add the 2 eggs and mix until combined well.Sift the flours with the cinnamon. Add the flour alternately with the milk to make a soft batter. Mix in the 2 cups of chopped rhubarb. 

Spoon the batter into the greased tin. Sprinkle the top of the cake with the crumble and tuck the remaining rhubarb into the crumble layer. 

Bake the cake for 1-1¼ hours or until the cake tests cooked when a skewer is inserted into it. Cool the cake in the tin for about 15 minutes before turning out to cool on a wire rack.



I love Canada having spent some time living and working in Edmonton in Alberta. I keep revisiting Canada every chance I get. It's my second favourite country in the world, after Australia of course.

July 1 is Canada Day so Happy Canada Day to all my Canadian friends.

Bye for now,

Jillian

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fall

fall

15 Oct 2012

I grew up in Brisbane, a city that essentially has 2 seasons - wet and dry. The trees are pretty much evergreen so until I lived in Canada I'd not experienced either a real autumn or spring. I love fall colours so I was happy to see the leaves had changed colour by the time I arrived in Quebec. Fall was short lived though. Once the rain in Quebec had come and gone, most of the leaves were off the trees and on the ground.



I found a few favourite trees around the city. This one was in Artillery Park.



I found these beautiful leaves outside St Andrew's Presbyterian Church, one of my favourite buildings in Old Quebec.



These pictures were taken in Citadel Park, Rue Cartier and the Plains of Abraham.



Another favourite tree I found in the gardens at the Plains of Abraham. I'd hoped to see more fall colour during my stay in New York but I was a bit too early. 

By the time you read this I will be on my way home to Sydney and expect to arrive home with a bad case of jet lag and a well used credit card. I hope you've been well while I've been gallivanting across the globe.

Bye for now,

Jillian

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Happy Canada Day

Happy Canada Day

1 Jul 2012

Hi Every-one,

I know I don't normally post on a Sunday but today is Canada Day and I wanted to celebrate it in some way. I lived in Canada for a while many years ago and it still has a place in my heart. The past few years I've been overseas July 1 but this year as I'm home in Sydney, I decided to bake something a little bit Canadian.



I was thinking of making something flavoured with maple syrup but in the end I decided to make a chocolate glazed pecan pie, which I first tried when living in Edmonton. The full post is coming tomorrow but for now, I'll leave you with this photo.

I'll be back tomorrow with many more photos and the recipe.

Happy Canada Day,

Jillian

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Rhubarb Yoghurt Cake

Rhubarb Yoghurt Cake

1 Jul 2009

As you know, I have a thing about rhubarb and especially oven baked rhubarb. When I found this recipe for Rhubarb Yoghurt Cake I knew I had to give it a go.



The recipe was easy to follow and the finished cake looked just as it was supposed to.



I took the cake into work and it disappeared in a flash, which is always a great sign. My workmates gave it the thumbs up, so I think they're all rhubarb fans as well. As I hadn't made this recipe before I tried a small piece of cake. I'd used low fat Greek yoghurt in the recipe so the cake was very tart and needed a little bit more sugar. Next time I try the recipe I might use buttermilk instead of yoghurt and increase the sugar, just a little.



If you try the recipe, let me know how it turns out.

P.S. Happy Canada Day!

Jillian

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