It's rhubarb season! And my girls now like it! That's big news, at least for me. Proof that you shouldn't take tastes for granted where children are concerned. And they realized that when I made a failed rhubarb pie with my first bought rhubarb this year. It looked pretty but the fruit was swimming in a pool of juices. The girls couldn't get enough of the stewed rhubarb. So I persevered, and made not one but two cakes with my latest bunch of rhubarb. The first one was the rhubarb meringue pie from the Nordic Bakery Cookbook. It turned out more like a flat cake than a tart but don't let that put you off, it was very nice anyway. The recipe is here . The real star, in my eyes, is this lemon buttermilk rhubarb bundt cake. Not just because of this dramatic showstopper of a cake tin - a pleasure and a joy in itself - but because it has such a silky soft texture, a delicate lemon scent, small pieces of rhubarb studding it and the delicious buttery ...
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