Rhubarb n Custard Cake

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Cook Time: 0:00
Serves: 0

Ingredients / Shopping List

Topping

25g butter

50g sugar

4 sticks of rhubarb

For the cake:

100g soft marg

100g caster sugar

2 eggs

150 S.R flour

Few drops vanilla essence

Custard:

150ml milk

1 tablespoon custard powder

20g sugar

Prep to Cook: Topping: non-stick frying pan, measuring jug, tablespoon, chopping board, vegetable knife, spatula, basin to store

Cake:  Mixing bowl, hand held mixer, spatula, 20cm Victoria sandwich tin.

Custard: small pan, measuring jug, wooden spoon, tablespoon, basin

Prep: Trim the rhubarb stalks; remove leafy end and trim root.  Slice the stem into 1cm length portions and rinse in cold water.

Prepare the topping:  dissolve the sugar and butter together over a gently heat and add the drained rhubarb.

Cook very gently hardly moving the rhubarb so that it remains in chunks.  Once it is soft turn off the heat and cool.  Store overnight if need be.

Make the custard:

Use a little of the milk to mix the custard powder to a slurry,

Heat the remaining milk until steaming and pour it into the slurry.

Return to the heat and stir until the custard is thick.

Add sugar and allow to cool.

Make the cake:

Cream the butter and sugar until light and fluffy,

Beat in the eggs one by one and add vanilla essence.

Fold in sieved flour and stir.

Line the cake tin with non-stick parchment paper

Put half the cake mix into the tin and spread out

Put the custard in blobs over the cake surface

Spoon the cold rhubarb in gaps between the custard

Add more cake mix in teaspoons over the rhubarb and custard

Do not spread this out it will fall during cooking

Sprinkle crushed sugar cubes over the surface

Bake for 35 minutes at 180ºC (Gas Mark 4)

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