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Tuesday, 1 May 2018

How To Make A Rhubarb & Orange Polenta Cake...


Happy Tuesday. Brr, it is so cold around here!!! Rhubarb & orange polenta cake anyone?


How To Make A Rhubarb & Orange Polenta Cake:
  • Vegetarian
  • Gluten Free
Preparation time:15 minutes
Cooking time:1 hour - 1 hour 15 mins

Serves: 8 - 10

Ingredients:
  • 150g butter, plus extra for greasing
  • 200g caster sugar
  • Finely grated zest and juice of 1 large orange
  • 3 Waitrose British Blacktail Medium Free Range Eggs, beaten
  • 150g polenta
  • 1½ tsp baking powder
  • 75g ground almonds
  • 400g forced rhubarb, trimmed and thickly sliced
  • 1 tbsp granulated sugar

How To Make:
  1. Preheat the oven to 180°C, gas mark 4. 
  2. Butter and line a 20cm-deep, loose-bottomed cake tin. 
  3. Cream the butter until soft, then beat in the caster sugar and orange zest, and continue beating until pale and fluffy. 
  4. Beat in the eggs a little at a time. 
  5. Fold in the polenta, baking powder and ground almonds to give a soft mixture that drops easily off a wooden spoon. 
  6. Spoon half the mixture over the base of the cake tin.
  7. Arrange the rhubarb over the cake base, then drop the rest of the mixture over the top, leaving some gaps. 
  8. Bake for 1-1¼ hours until well risen and golden and a skewer inserted into the centre emerges clean and dry.
Enjoy!

Recipe courtesy of Waitrose.

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