Kitchen tip: For people with nut allergies, skip the streusel topping and simply dust the cake with icing sugar before serving.
Rhubarb Coffee Cake
By Chatelaine726
PREP TIME
30 min
TOTAL TIME
1 h 50 min
Serves
8 to 10
* PLUS 1 hr 10 min cooling time
Photo, Erik Putz.
Rhubarb coffee cake with a streusel topping is a tasty spring treat.
Ingredients
- 1/3 cup all-purpose flour
- 1/4 cup granulated sugar
- 1/4 cup cold, unsalted butter , cubed
- 1/2 cup chopped pecans
Cake
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp cardamom
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 2/3 cup unsalted butter , softened
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 1/2 cup sour cream
- 3 cups chopped rhubarb
Instructions
- Position rack in centre of oven, then preheat to 325F. Spray a 9-in. springform pan with oil, then line bottom with parchment.
- Streusel: Combine flour and sugar in a medium bowl and, using fingers, work in butter until mixture is crumbly. Stir in pecans.
- Cake: Whisk flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, cardamom and salt in a medium bowl.
- Beat butter and sugar in a large bowl, using an electric mixer on medium, until fluffy, about 3 min. Beat in eggs, one at a time, scraping side of bowl as needed until combined, then vanilla. Beat in half of flour mixture, then sour cream, then remaining flour mixture, until just blended. Fold in rhubarb.
- Transfer batter to prepared pan, smoothing top with a spatula. Sprinkle with streusel mixture.
- Bake, covering with foil if nuts are browning too quickly, until a cake tester inserted into centre of cake comes out clean, about 1 hr 20 min. Let cool in pan on rack for 10 min, then release springform ring and let cool completely, about 1 hr. Cake will keep well, covered, at room temperature for up to 3 days.
Kitchen tip
This cake can be made ahead and refrigerated for 2 days (if it even lasts that long).
Nutrition (per serving)
- Calories
- 436,
- Protein
- 7 g,
- Carbohydrates
- 50 g,
- Fat
- 24 g,
- Fibre
- 2 g,
- Sodium
- 297 mg.
- Excellent source of
- Folate
