Since rhubarb is very often used in cakes, it is sometimes called a “cake plant”. And to make the bakery with it the most delicious, make a pie the day before you plan to serve it on the table.
Rhubarb can be added to the filling, either by itself or in combination with other fruits and berries. Most popular are its combinations with apples or strawberries. Dough for baking can be used both shortbread, and puff or pastry yeast. There are a lot of cooking options for this treat, and the most interesting recipes are listed below.
Pie with rhubarb from Julia Vysotskaya
This simple recipe is very popular. To make such a dessert, you will need:
- Rhubarb - about 6 stems.
- Flour - 250 g.
- Sugar - 125 g.
- Softened butter - 135 g.
- 2 large eggs.
- Natural yogurt - 125 ml.
- Baking powder - one teaspoon.
- Vanilla extract - a quarter of a teaspoon.
The recipe for rhubarb pie from Julia Vysotskaya is as follows. Preheat the oven to 200 degrees. Peel and dice rhubarb. Using a mixer, beat the eggs thoroughly with vanilla extract and sugar. Slow down the mixer and pour in the yogurt slowly. In the resulting mixture, put butter and rhubarb, then gradually pour the flour with baking powder, stirring constantly.
Lubricate the baking dish with butter, place the dough evenly in it and bake for about 40 minutes.
Classic Rhubarb Shortbread Cake
The recipe with the photo published in this article will help you prepare this simple dessert. It will require the following components:
- The basis of the shortbread dough.
- Universal flour.
- About 6 glasses of rhubarb (ends are cut, the stem is cut into pieces).
- 1 cup of sugar.
- Two tablespoons of corn starch.
- A pinch of salt.
How to prepare the base from the dough?
You can use either store frozen dough or cook it yourself. It is done very simply, and it requires the following:
- 2 tbsp. universal flour;
- half a glass of sugar;
- half a spoon of tea salt;
- 3 tablespoons chilled, diced butter;
- baking powder, 1 pack;
- 3-4 l. tablespoons of ice water;
- egg for lubrication.
In a large bowl, beat the flour, sugar and salt. Put butter and baking powder, then mix with a blender for dough or with your hands until a loose mixture forms. Add 1 tbsp. l ice water gradually until a soft, flexible dough is formed.
Put it on a sheet of parchment paper. Knead with gentle movements, then wrap with plastic wrap and refrigerate for 30 minutes. Then you can use the dough for baking or freeze until necessary.
How to cook a classic pie?
How to make a quick rhubarb pie? Place the dough on a piece of parchment paper covered in flour. Carefully, so as not to crack, roll out the dough to a cake with a diameter of about 30 cm.
Use parchment to lift and wrap dough around a rolling pin. Gently transfer it and unfold over the form. Carefully place in a round or square collapsible form, taking care not to stretch or tear. Tamp it along the bottom and edges. Using kitchen scissors, trim the excess dough on top. You should get a sort of basket. Save the cut edges from the dough. Allow to cool for about an hour.
Preheat the oven to 200 degrees, prepare the rack at the lowest level. In a large bowl, mix the rhubarb with sugar, corn starch and salt and put in the form with the dough, filling the "basket". Sprinkle with crumbled leftover dough. Place the cake on a baking tray covered with foil, remove the mold.
Put the pie in the oven, reduce the temperature to 180 degrees and bake until the filling is roasted and the crust becomes rosy. It usually takes about an hour and a half. If the top or crust begins to burn too quickly, cover it with foil.
Cool completely before serving. This delicacy is also known as rhubarb pie from Julia Vysotskaya.
Strawberry Option
Strawberries and rhubarb are a very good and tasty combination, especially as a filling. Such a dessert has an excellent taste, which sets a peculiar shade of rhubarb, and strawberries are a pleasant aromatic addition.
To prepare such a delicious pie with rhubarb from Yulia Vysotskaya, you will need the following components:
- 1¼ cup sugar;
- 7.5 tablespoons of universal flour;
- a quarter of a spoon of tea salt;
- from 3.5 to 4 cups chopped rhubarb, fresh or frozen;
- 3 cups peeled chopped strawberries, fresh or frozen;
- 1 liter Art. butter;
- coarse white sugar, for decoration.
How to make such a cake?
The recipe for the photo of the rhubarb pie looks like this:
- First you need to make a basket of dough. To do this, divide it into two halves. Distribute one part of the dough on the walls and bottom of the baking dish. Be sure to cool the workpiece while you are filling, for at least 30 minutes.
- Beat sugar, thickener and salt together to make a filler. Add rhubarb and strawberries, stir. Put the filling in the dough piece, filling it approximately three quarters. Pour melted butter. Place the cake in the refrigerator for a while.
- Preheat the oven to 220 degrees. Take the remaining half of the dough and cut it into pieces. You can use a cookie cutter to give the pieces a star shape.
- Place the sliced dough on top of the filling of the rhubarb pie from Julia Vysotskaya. If desired, moisten with water and sprinkle with coarse white sugar.
- Bake the cake for 30 minutes, then reduce the oven temperature to 180 and bake another 30-40 minutes. The product should acquire a beautiful crust. Remove the cake from the oven and let it cool for an hour (or so).
You can eat warm rhubarb pie from Yulia Vysotskaya, but the filling in this form will flow out. Therefore, it is desirable to cool the dessert and garnish with vanilla ice cream or whipped cream.
Rhubarb pie with sour cream
This dessert is a simple and classic combination of diced rhubarb, sour cream and icing sugar. He needs the following:
- About a glass of flour.
- Half a glass of brown sugar.
- A quarter cup of butter.
- 0.5 kg of stalks of rhubarb.
- A glass of granulated white sugar.
- A glass of sour cream.
You will also need chilled shortcrust pastry. You can cook it according to any recipe.
How to cook?
This is a jellied pie with rhubarb. How is the cooking process going? First of all, warm the oven to 220 degrees.
Pour half a glass of flour and dark brown sugar into a medium bowl. Mix them as thoroughly as possible. Melt a quarter cup of unsalted butter and add it to the flour and sugar mixture. Stir and set aside.
Then peel and cut the rhubarb into cubes, put in a large bowl. Add sugar and a third cup of flour to it, mix thoroughly. Add a glass of sour cream and mix well again.
Transfer the resulting mixture to a chilled dough piece. Sprinkle on top of the brown sugar mixture prepared in the previous step.
Place the pie in the oven and bake on the lower rack at 220 degrees for 10 minutes. Then change the temperature to 180 degrees and continue baking for another 35-45 minutes, until the filling begins to bubble.
Some helpful tips
It is desirable to prevent excessive baking of the edges of the product. To do this, it is enough to cover the edges of the pie with foil. Remove it 15 minutes before baking ends.
When the filling begins to bubble, some overflow and leakage may occur. To facilitate subsequent cleaning, place the cake pan on the lowest rack of the oven. Cut a piece of foil a little larger than the baking dish and place it on the bottom. However, do not cover the entire rack or bottom of the oven with foil, as this will result in an uneven distribution of heat in the oven.
Freshly baked dessert should cool completely.
Option with raspberries and cream
Shortcrust rhubarb pie can also be made with raspberries.
It will require such components:
- preparation of shortcrust pastry;
- 0.5-1 cup rhubarb chopped;
- a glass of raspberries;
- a glass of organic cane sugar;
- 2 tbsp. l universal flour;
- 2 eggs;
- three quarters of a glass of 35% cream.
How to make such a cake?
Roll the dough base lightly and place in a glass baking tray. Dry a little in the oven and refrigerate while you prepare the filling. This is necessary so that the dough in the finished dessert is crispy.
Preheat the oven to 180 degrees.
Wash, dry and cut rhubarb to measure one and a half cups. Place on a dough piece and pour raspberries on top.
In a medium-sized bowl, thoroughly beat the sugar and flour, and then add the eggs. Then pour the mixture into the cream and mix well.
Pour the creamy mixture onto the fruit in the dough and place the product on the central rack of the oven. Bake by rotating the baking dish once or twice for 35-45 minutes. The middle of the finished cake will seem liquid, but it will freeze when the dessert cools. Cool the product to room temperature, then place briefly in the refrigerator.
You can change this recipe and prepare on its basis a cottage cheese pie with rhubarb from Yulia Vysotskaya. To do this, replace the cream with fat cottage cheese and do not pre-dry the dough piece. You will get a gentle, delicious dessert.
Option with apples
You can make the filling with such a combination of products. This shortbread rhubarb pie with apples is both sour and sweet. It is very simple to prepare it, and for this you will need the following components:
- shortcrust pastry;
- 1 cup stew of rhubarb;
- 3 large crunchy apples, peeled and chopped;
- a quarter cup of brown sugar;
- 1 tablespoon flour;
- half a spoonful of tea cinnamon;
- half a teaspoon of cloves;
- half a teaspoon of grated nutmeg;
- 1 teaspoon fresh lemon juice.
Cooking process
What does a rhubarb and apple pie recipe look like? First, preheat the oven to 180 degrees.
Then divide the dough into two parts. Roll one half so that the dough can be placed in your baking dish, pierce the bottom with a fork. Bake for 15 minutes. Remove from the oven and cool slightly before filling.
In a large bowl, mix chopped apples, sugar, flour, spices, and lemon juice. Add a glass of stewed rhubarb. Pour the filling into the prepared cake blank. Roll out the remaining dough to make the top in the form of a lattice and lay on top of the product, grease with an egg, and then sprinkle with sugar.
Bake for about 35-40 minutes. or until the crust of the pie turns golden. Chill before serving. Served with fresh cream or ice cream.
Puff pastry option
In most cases, shortbread dough is used for baking with rhubarb. However, you can safely use other options. For example, bake a rhubarb pie with puff pastry.
For him you will need:
- ready-made puff pastry (home-made or in-store);
- 2 tbsp. strawberries, peeled and halved;
- 2 tbsp. diced rhubarb;
- 1 liter tea starch;
- 1 liter soft butter tea;
- 2 l tea lemon juice;
- ¼ teaspoon of nutmeg;
- ¼ teaspoon of cinnamon;
- ¼ tablespoons of tea salt;
- ¼ teaspoon black pepper;
- 1 liter including vanilla extract.
Lightly oil the baking dish. Then put half the puff pastry on the bottom. Bake until golden brown at 180 degrees. Allow to cool slightly.
Fold the chopped rhubarb into a saucepan, cover and simmer for 10 minutes over low heat to soften. Stir occasionally. Then add the halves of strawberries and mix thoroughly, put the rest of the ingredients. Spread the mixture evenly on top of the freshly baked base, and then lay on top the second half of the dough.
Try to glue the layers, pierce the top of the pie with a fork. Bake 40 minutes at 180 degrees until golden brown. Remove from oven and let cool completely. Serve rhubarb pie with ice cream puff pastry.