Rhubarb & Custard Cake

Image Source | BBC GOODFOOD

Rhubarb and custard are a delicious timely classic, raise your hand if you were addicted to rhubarb and custard sweets as a kid (or adult, haha!) It's that classic combination that takes you back to the good old days and has you reminiscing. 

With rhubarb in season at the moment it seems only right to put it to good use with it's custard counterpart and create the perfect cake to accompany a cup of tea or even better a scoop of vanilla ice-cream. 

Let's get started.....

Rhubarb and Custard Cake

Serves  16 | To prepare 20mins | To cook 1hr (plus rhubarb cooking & cooling)

Ingredients 

• 1 quantity Barney's roasted rhubarb(see recipe, below ingredients)
• 250g pack butter , softened, plus extra for greasing
• 150g pot ready-made custard (not the chilled kind)
• 250g self-raising flour
• ½ tsp baking powder
• 4 large eggs
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 250g golden caster sugar
• icing sugar , for dusting

Barney's Roasted Rhubarb 

Heat oven to 200C/fan 180C/gas 6. Rinse 400g rhubarb and shake off excess water. Trim the ends, then cut into little-finger-size pieces. Put in a shallow dish or a baking tray, tip over 50g caster sugar, toss together, then shuffle rhubarb so it's in a single layer. Cover with foil, then roast for 15 mins. Remove foil. Give everything a little shake, roast for 5 mins more or until tender and the juices are syrupy.

Method

• Make the roasted rhubarb first, carefully draining off the juices before you let it cool. 
• Butter and line a 23cm loose-bottomed or springform cake tin. Heat oven to 180C/fan 160C/gas 4.
• Reserve 3 tbsp of the custard in a bowl.
•  Beat the rest of the custard together with the butter, flour, baking powder, eggs, vanilla and sugar until creamy and smooth. 
• Spoon one-third of the mix into the tin, add some of the rhubarb, then dot with one-third more cake mix and spread it out as well as you can. Top with some more rhubarb, then spoon over the remaining cake mix, leaving it in rough mounds and dips rather than being too neat about it. 
• Scatter the rest of the rhubarb over the batter, then dot the remaining custard over. Bake for 40 mins until risen and golden, then cover with foil and bake for 15-20 mins more. 
• It's ready when a skewer inserted into the middle comes out clean. Cool in the tin, then dredge with icing sugar when cool.

Recipe Source | BBC GOOD FOOD

Enjoy!

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