Rhubarb or Apple Cake

Ingredients

• 60 g butter
• 380 g brown sugar
• 2 eggs
• 300 g flour
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• sultana
• 500 g rhubarb, uncooked and cut into cubes (or same weight cooking apples, peeled cored and diced)
• 250 ml sour cream
• 1 lemon rind, grated

Directions

1. 1

   Cream butter and sugar(it does not get to the consistency of white sugar and butter).

2. 2

   Add eggs and vanilla.

3. 3

   Sift in a tablespoon of flour first and fold it in (a trick my mummy always taught me).

4. 4

   Sift in the rest of the flour, baking soda and cinnamon; fold it together.

5. 5

   Add rhubarb, lemon rind and sour cream; combine well.

6. 6

   Pour into a 22cm cake tin.

7. 7

   Bake at 180 degrees C for 1 hour or until toothpick inserted in centre comes out clean.

8. 8

   Topping (optional): 80g brown sugar with cinnamon.