Recipe: Rhubarb Crumb Coffeecake

Recipe by Cindi DeClue

Serves 16 | Ready in 1 hour 15 minutes

Ingredients

Coffeecake

  • 2 cups flour
  • 2 tsp cinnamon
  • 1⁄4 tsp nutmeg
  • 4 cups chopped rhubarb 
  • 1 1⁄2 cups granulated sugar 
  • 1⁄2 cup butter, softened
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 tsp baking soda
  • 1 cup buttermilk
  • 1 tsp vanilla

Crumb Topping

  • 1 cup flour
  • 1⁄2 cup brown sugar
  • 1 tsp cinnamon
  • 1⁄2 cup cold butter

Directions

  • Preheat oven to 350 degrees. grease two 8-inch pans with shortening.
  • In a small bowl, combine flour, cinnamon, nutmeg and rhubarb; set aside. In a large bowl, beat together sugar, butter, eggs, baking soda, buttermilk, and vanilla; add dry ingredients and mix until just combined. Pour into prepared pans.
  • Prepare crumb topping: In a large bowl, mix together flour, brown sugar, and cinnamon. Cut butter into mixture with a pastry blender or fork until mixture resembles coarse crumbs.                        
  • Sprinkle cake mixture with crumb topping and gently press into batter. Bake at 350 degrees for 40 minutes if using fresh rhubarb and 50 minutes if using frozen rhubarb.