Rhubarb Bundt Cake

Name: Rhubarb Bundt Cake
Yield: 12
Ingredients: 2 ½ cups finely chopped rhubarb; ½ cup white sugar; 1 pinch salt; 2 ½ cups flour; 1 ½ tsps baking powder; 1/2 tsp salt; 1/2 tsp baking soda; 1 stick (1/2 cup) unsalted butter, softened; ¼ cup vegetable oil; 1 ¾ cups sugar; 3 large eggs; 1 1/2 tsp vanilla; 1 ½ cups buttermilk, at room temperature

For my birthday, I made a bundt cake filled with rhubarb. It was a delicious cake, and the rhubarb filling was perfectly hidden inside. A trick to getting the bundt out of the pan is to tip it upside down and tap it with a wooden spoon before lifting off the pan. This cake would have been pretty with fresh flowers, sprinkled with powdered sugar or with a glaze added – I was at the cabin and didn’t have any of these so we used whip cream instead.

Rhubarb Bundt Cake

Yield: 12

This is the perfect Memorial Day Cake for rhubarb season. Serve with whip cream

Ingredients

Rhubarb Filling*

2 ½ cups finely chopped rhubarb
½ cup white sugar
1 pinch salt

Cake

2 ½ cups flour
1 ½ tsps baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp baking soda
1 stick (1/2 cup) unsalted butter, softened
¼ cup vegetable oil
1 ¾ cups sugar
3 large eggs
1 1/2 tsp vanilla
1 ½ cups buttermilk, at room temperature

Instructions

Combine rhubarb, 1/2 cup sugar, and salt in a saucepan. Bring to a simmer over medium heat. Cook until rhubarb has broken down, stirring occasionally for 8 to 10 minutes. Place mixture into a bowl and place into the refrigerator to cool.
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees and grease a 10-cup Bundt pan.
Whisk flour, baking powder, salt, and baking soda together in a small bowl
Cream butter, oil, and sugar together with an electric mixer in a large bowl until light and fluffy, about 3 minutes. Add eggs, one at a time, mixing well after each addition. Mix in vanilla extract. Add half of the flour mixture and mix until just combined. Pour in buttermilk and mix until just combined. Add in the remaining flour mixture and mix. Do not overmix.
Pour half of the batter into the prepared Bundt® pan and smooth into an even layer. Remove rhubarb jam from the fridge, and carefully spoon over the batter. Place dollops of remaining batter over the jam and gently smooth it into an even layer, covering the jam completely.
Place pan into the preheated oven and bake until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out with just a few moist crumbs, 55 to 60 minutes. Cool cake in pan for 30 minutes before running a knife around the edges to loosen. Invert the cake onto a plate and cool completely before serving.

Notes

*You can make rhubarb syrup and use the rough jam from the syrup in this recipe.