Claire Saffitz Makes Rhubarb Cake | Dessert Person
Let me tell you a story about rhubarb. It’s a vegetable -- a stalk more specifically -- that grows every spring and has a piercing tart flavor and pretty ruby red hue. Some people don’t like the flavor, but those people don’t get what a special flavor and texture it has! In this rhubarb cake, Claire uses it three ways -- placed in decorative rows on top, cooked down into mush and incorporated into the batter, and chopped and folded into the cake. It’s a celebration of rhubarb, a harbinger of warm weather and an inspiration to dessert people everywhere.
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Rhubarb Cake
Special Equipment:
4 1/2 x 8 1/2 inch loaf pan, measured from the top
Ingredients:
1 pound (454g) rhubarb stalks
Butter and demerara sugar for the pan
1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour (8 oz / 228g)
2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder (0.35 oz / 10g)
3/4 teaspoon Diamond Crystal kosher salt
1 1/4 cups granulated sugar (8.8 oz / 250g)
1 stick unsalted butter ( 4 oz / 113g) melted and cooled
2 large eggs (3.5 oz / 100g)
1 1/2 teaspoons finely grated orange zest
1/3 cup plain whole-milk Greek yogurt (2.8 oz / 80g)
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Demerara sugar, for sprinkling the top.
0:00 Start
0:11 Intro to Rhubarb Cake
0:28 Dessert Person Intro/Animation
0:46 Claire Talks About Rhubarb
2:00 Ingredients and Special Equipment
2:46 Prepare The Pan
4:52 Prepare The Rhubarb
6:28 Make The Compote
9:15 Build The Cake
15:56 How To Bake Rhubarb Cake
17:46 Slice & Taste!
19:35 Return of Penelope as Rhubarb/Moose as Croissant
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Photographer: Alex Lau
Food Stylist: Sue Li
Prop Stylist: Astrid Chastka
Video Series:
Producer/Director: @VincentCross
Camera Operator: Calvin Robertson
Sound Engineer/Music: Michael Guggino
Editor: Kyu Nakama
Animation Credits:
Character Designer/Animator: Jack Sherry
Character Rigger: Johara Dutton
Background/Prop Designer: M. Cody Wiley
Background Illustrator: Jagriti Khirwar