Best Cake Recipes: Rhubarb Cake

Rhubarb Cake is a delicious combination of sweet and just slightly tangy. This is one of the best cake recipes to make in the spring when fresh rhubarb is ripe and plentiful.

You will find variations below to easily switch this recipe into a tasty apple cake or pear cake, which really makes this an all season, easy to make treat. Any way you make it rhubarb cake is sure to be a real hit with your family.

Preheat oven to 350ºF.

Cream sugar and shortening together. Add egg and mix. Add baking soda, milk and vanilla. Mix in the flour, then fold in fruit. Pour into a 9" square baking pan and spread evenly in the pan. Mix together the 1/3 cup sugar and 1 teaspoon cinnamon. Sprinkle on the top of the cake.

Bake for 50 - 60 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the dough portion of the cake comes out clean (the fruit may still be moist).

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• For a simple apple cake recipe, replace the rhubarb with the same amount of finely chopped apples.
• For an easy pear cake, just replace the rhubarb with a similar amount of chopped ripe pears. Try changing the taste a bit by using ground ginger instead of the cinnamon.

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