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I would like to share our all-time favorite Rhubarb cake recipe. This cake is tender, delicious, and healthy. It is rich in vitamin K & C. Rhubarb is a perennial plant (a plant that lives more than 2 years) and grows in the garden during springtime. It is known for its reddish stalks and sour taste. I am privilege to have this plant​​ in my garden.

Preparation Time: 20 mins
Bake Time: 50 mins + 15 mins
Highlight: Rich in Vitamin C and K

Crust Ingredients

150 g Margarine
300 g Flour
100 g Sugar
1 tbsp Baking Powder
4 Egg Yolks
a Pinch of Salt

Filling Ingredients

1 kg Rhubarb
500 ml Milk
50g Vanilla Pudding Mixture
75 g Sugar

Meringue Ingredients

4 Eggwhites
75 g White Sugar
a Pinch of Salt

Procedure

  1. Preheat the oven to 160 degrees Celcius.
  2. Prepare and grease 28 cm diameter round baking form.
  3. Make first the crust, beat the margarine with an electric mixer until soft and creamy put sugar gradually then add egg yolks and dry ingredients. Mix them thoroughly for 3 minutes.
  4. Put the crust in the baking form and flatten it at least 1cm thick, covering the bottom and the side of the baking form.
  5. Add the cooked Vanillapudding-Rhubarb mixture.
  6. Baked for 55 minutes.
  7. After 55 minutes, add the meringue on the cake and bake it again for about 15 minutes.
  8. Let it cool before serving.

Note: The cake must be totally cooled-up before serving to avoid a watery rhubarb cake.

Cooking Vanilla Pudding with Rhubarb

  1. Wash, peel, and slice (ca. 3cm) Rhubarb.
  2. Bring 500 ml milk to boil.
  3. Dilute the pudding mixture and sugar to 3 tablespoon milk in a cup.
  4. Add the mixture to the boiling milk.
  5. Lower the fire and stir the pudding until the desired thickness is reached.
  6. Take out the casserole from the stove.
  7. Add sliced Rhubarb in the pudding and mix them thoroughly.

Making Meringue

  1. Using an electric mixer, beat egg whites with low speed and try to slowly increase the speed until egg whites turn fluffy.
  2. Gradually add sugar and continue to beat egg whites until the mixture is thoroughly mixed.

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