Quiet cake

As Mr M retired early with his painful wisdom tooth last night, and I had (yet more) rhubarb waiting to be baked, I needed a simple recipe I could make quietly without recourse to the electric mixer.

I used my trusted super-simple-cake base, adapted from a Polish apple cake recipe I was given a couple of years back, with a crumble topping taken from a Martha Stewart recipe.

Heat oven to 170- 180C gas 4-5

3 eggs
1 cup sr flour
1/3 cup cornflour
125gsm butter, melted
1 cup sugar
1 tsp vanilla essence
Ginger/cinnamon/mixed spice
6 or so sticks rhubarb sliced plus strawberries if you have them. Alternatively use slices of apple

Mix all ingredients except rhubarb together

Pour into lined cake tin / deepish tray

Top with fruit

Top that with crumb topping (from this Martha Stewart recipe)

6 tablespoons (about 100gms) unsalted butter, melted
1 cup plain flour, (spooned and leveled)
1/2 cup soft light-brown sugar
1/4 teaspoon salt
Whisk together butter, brown sugar, and salt. Add flour and mix with a fork until large crumbs form. Sprinkle over fruit

Bake for 50 mins - check topping doesn't burn towards end - you may need to cover with loose sheet of tinfoil after 30 mins




Stay sweet