Claire Saffitz Makes Rhubarb Cake | Dessert Person
Let me tell you a story about rhubarb. It’s a vegetable a stalk more specifically that grows every spring and has a piercing tart flavor and pretty ruby red hue. Some people don’t like the flavor, but those people don’t get what a special flavor and texture it has! In this rhubarb cake, Claire uses it three ways placed in decorative rows on top, cooked down into mush and incorporated into the batter, and chopped and folded into the cake. It’s a celebration of rhubarb, a harbinger of warm weather and an inspiration to dessert people everywhere.

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Rhubarb Cake
Special Equipment:
4 1/2 x 8 1/2 inch loaf pan, measured from the top

Ingredients:
1 pound (454g) rhubarb stalks
Butter and demerara sugar for the pan
1 3/4 cups allpurpose flour (8 oz / 228g)
2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder (0.35 oz / 10g)
3/4 teaspoon Diamond Crystal kosher salt
1 1/4 cups granulated sugar (8.8 oz / 250g)
1 stick unsalted butter ( 4 oz / 113g) melted and cooled
2 large eggs (3.5 oz / 100g)
1 1/2 teaspoons finely grated orange zest
1/3 cup plain wholemilk Greek yogurt (2.8 oz / 80g)
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Demerara sugar, for sprinkling the top.

0:00 Start
0:11 Intro to Rhubarb Cake
0:28 Dessert Person Intro/Animation
0:46 Claire Talks About Rhubarb
2:00 Ingredients and Special Equipment
2:46 Prepare The Pan
4:52 Prepare The Rhubarb
6:28 Make The Compote
9:15 Build The Cake
15:56 How To Bake Rhubarb Cake
17:46 Slice & Taste!
19:35 Return of Penelope as Rhubarb/Moose as Croissant


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