[recipe] Almond Rhubarb Coffee Cake Hi PT

[Guest guest]

That's a must try.......D

 

~ PT ~ <patchouli_troll wrote:Now here is another recipe i found in

my

personal recipe card file box when i was

looking for the hand-written copy of my

rhubarb snack cake. i think i found it in one

of those church cookbook collections my

grandmother used to have. It is a delicious

way to use a crop of rhubarb.... i am glad i

rediscovered this one!

 

Almond Rhubarb Coffee Cake

 

1 1/2 cups packed brown sugar

2/3 cup vegetable oil

1 egg

1 tsp. vanilla

2 1/2 cups flour

1 tsp. salt

1 tsp. baking powder

1 cup milk

1 1/2 cups chopped rhubarb

1/2 cup sliced almonds

 

TOPPING:

1/3 cup sugar

1 Tbs. butter, melted

1/4 cup sliced almonds

 

In a mixing bowl, beat brown sugar, oil, egg and

vanilla until smooth. Combine flour, salt and baking

soda; add to sugar mixture alternating with the milk.

Beat until smooth. Stir in the rhubarb and the almonds.

Pour into two greased 9 inch round cake pans.

For topping, combine the sugar and butter; stir in

almonds. Sprinkle over batter of both cakes.

Bake at 350û for 30 to 35 minutes or until a toothpick

comes out clean.

Yield: 12 servings

 

~ pt ~

 

If the day and the night are such that you greet them with

joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-

scented herbs, is more elastic, more starry, more immortal

--that is your success.

~ Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)