Apple & Rhubarb Cake with Cardamom
Apple & Rhubarb Cake with Cardamom
Yield: 6 people
Equipment
- 9-inch Springform pan
Ingredients
- ½ lb rhubarb about 3 stalks
- 2 cups + 1 tbsp coconut sugar or white granulated
- 1½ cup all-purpose flour I used spelt
- 1½ cup almond flour blanched or unblanched
- 1 tsp baking powder
- ½ tsp crushed cardamom seeds or 1 tsp vanilla essence
- ½ tsp pink Pakistani salt also known as Himlayan sea salt, or use sea salt
- ¼ cup 1 stick unsalted butter, room temperature
- 3 eggs room temperature
- ⅓ cup sour cream full fat
- 1 cup apples peeled, cored, and cut into ½-inch chunks
- 1 tablespoon flaked almonds optional
Instructions
- Pre-heat oven to 350F. Butter a 9-inch Springform pan (or a basic cake pan) and line with parchment paper.
- You’ll need one stalk of rhubarb to decorate the top of the cake. Slice lengthwise into thin ribbons (¼-inch) and trim so it can fit inside the circle of your Springform or cake pan. Set aside.
- With the remaining rhubarb stalks, slice into ½-inch slices (this will amount to a little over 1 cup of chopped rhubarb). Sprinkle with 1 tablespoon of sugar.
- Whisk together flours, baking powder, cardamom (if using vanilla essence, add to wet ingredients later), and sea salt.
- In a separate large bowl, with an electric mixer on medium, beat butter and sugar until fluffy, 3 minutes, add eggs one at a time, beating after each addition, (if using vanilla essence add now). Beat until well combined.
- With mixer on lowest speed, add the dry ingredients, then sour cream (and vanilla essence, if using), then the rest of the dry ingredients. Beat until just combined.
- With a spatula, gently fold in apples and rhubarb (discard any liquid that may have accumulated from the rhubarb).
- Spoon batter into prepared pan, and smooth top (an offset spatula works well here).
- Spread the reserved rhubarb stalks parallel to each other over the batter. Sprinkle with flaked almonds (optional).
- Bake in the middle rack of the oven for 65-70 minutes, or until a tester inserted in center comes out clean.
- Enjoy with powdered sugar on top, and a dollop of crème fraiche on the side.
