Strawberry Rhubarb Bundt Cake
This Strawberry Rhubarb Cake is amazing. Theres’s no other way to describe it…it’s tender and full of delicious strawberry and rhubarb flavour!
I finally got my hands on some rhubarb!! Last spring my rhubarb was amazing and I had more than I needed, but this spring we accidentally removed it when we took apart our garden! Sad face. So when spring rolled around here with my rhubarb craving in full force I went on a grocery store hunt for it and came up empty handed…until I finally spied some this weekend, so I bought almost every stalk. I had to though, I needed to make a rhubarb cake, this rhubarb Bundt cake in fact!
Do you love rhubarb? I am realizing that a lot of people don’t even know what rhubarb is or how to use it which I find kind of shocking. I think I must just take rhubarb for granted because I’ve had it all my life…coming from a family of farmers and gardeners, rhubarb was always around, big giant plants that never got used up because of the sheer volume. Oh how I would love that…
Bundt Cakes are the Best!
Anyway, I’ve been wanting to make a Bundt cake with rhubarb for ages, and this weekend I finally got around to making one, and I’m thrilled at how it turned out! For all of my vanilla Bundt cake recipes, I use basically the same base recipe and just tweak it for which ever flavour I am making at the time. For this particular cake I wanted to use strawberries, rhubarb and yogurt (ever since I made my Chocolate Bundt Cake with yogurt I won’t make them any other way. The yogurt makes it so tender.) This Strawberry Rhubarb Bundt Cake is on my spring must-make list from now on!
Strawberry Rhubarb Bundt Cake Recipe Tips
- Use an 8 cup Bundt pan.
- Use a thick yogurt, like Greek or Balkan yogurt. Sour cream would work as well.
- Prep your Bundt pan by spraying the inside of the pan with a baking spray containing flour (you can find this spray in the baking aisle at your grocery store). This step is so important if you want your cake to slide out of the pan.
Strawberry Rhubarb Bundt Cake
Ingredients
Strawberry Rhubarb Mix:
- 1 1/2 cup chopped rhubarb
- 1/2 cup chopped fresh strawberries
- 1/2 tsp cinnamon
- 1/4 cup granulated sugar
Vanilla Cake:
- 1/2 cup butter
- 1 cup sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 2 cups flour
- 4 tsp baking powder
- 3/4 cup yogurt a thick yogurt with the consistency of sour cream: Greek yogurt or Balkan yogurt
- 1/4 cup milk
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 350 degrees.
- Prep your Bundt pan by spraying the inside of the pan with a baking spray containing flour (you can find this spray in the baking aisle at your grocery store). This step is so important if you want your cake to slide out of the pan. Set aside.
- In a bowl combine the chopped strawberries and rhubarb with the cinnamon and sugar. Set aside.
- In another bowl, using a mixer, cream together the butter and sugar.
- Add the eggs, one at a time.
- Then add the vanilla.
- In a separate bowl, whisk together the flour and baking powder.
- In another bowl, mix together the milk and yogurt.
- To the butter mix, add 1/3 of the flour mix, then 1/2 the yogurt/milk mix. Repeat until all combined.
- Put clumps of the cake batter around the bottom of the pan, followed with the strawberry rhubarb mixture, and repeat until finished.
- Bake for 45 minutes.
- Let cool for about 10 minutes in the pan, then turn the cake out onto a plate.
Enjoy this cake on it’s own or with a scoop of vanilla ice cream. So so good.
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Have a delicious day!
Thank you so much Cindy! I hope your group enjoys it!
Looks fantastic… trying to find the conversions to go to a 9 x 13 cake pan now.
Thanks!
This is an absolutely phenomenal recipe… It is super moist and so flavorful. Found it on Yummly .
The only change I made was converting to a 9 x 13 glass pan and changed baking time to 28-32 minutes.
Thank you 🙂
I’m so happy to read this! I really love this recipe too, so it’s wonderful that you enjoyed it as much as we do!
This looks delicious! I’ve never actually had rhubarb before… is it sweet??
Hi Melissa! No, rhubarb is not sweet at all, it’s actually very tart. But with strawberries and sugar added it tastes amazing!
1/4 what of granulated sugar? Cup or tsp?
Oops! That should be 1/4 cup of granulated sugar! I’ve fixed the recipe now. Happy baking!
What’s the unit of measurement of the yogurt here? The ingredients just say “3/4 yogurt”, I’m assuming that means 3/4 cup yogurt?
Also, I have a lot of less thick yogurt on hand right now, but still want to use it because it’s highly perishable. I’m thinking of maybe compensating with using a bit of cream cheese or perhaps sour cream in replacement of some of the yogurt, is that a bad idea?
Hi! Yes that should be 3/4 cup of yogurt (I’ve fixed the recipe now). And yes you can absolutely top it up with sour cream – that would be better because it’s a bit more thick. Happy baking!
I made this today with fresh strawberries and rhubarb from the local farmers’ market. It was fluffy and light and pretty. I think next time I will do more strawberries, less rhubarb, as that rhubarb is tart of course and I couldn’t taste the berries as much as I would like. I wanted it sweeter, so I topped it with vanilla frosting. My 5 year old son enjoyed making it with me– he got to stir the sugar and fruit. Thank you for sharing!
Thanks for the recipe. I also love rhubarb grow it.so I’m always looking for something new to do with it.
I have frozen rhubarb from spring, could I use it frozen or should I thaw first? My concern is the amount of moisture it seems to drain when it thaws and if it will hurt the recipe. Also- only have raspberries and wanted to substitute for strawberries?
Hi Becky! I always worry about the moisture in rhubarb after thawing as well, so I would add it frozen! I’m not sure about the raspberry & rhubarb flavour combination, but rhubarb is amazing with almost everything! Good luck, and let me know how it turns out!
Is it Possible to use frozen strawberries for this?
Hi Mely! I think they would work just fine! I would add them frozen…if they thaw out there will be quite a big of juice left.
I just finished this cake for the third time. It is one that family and friends rave over. Thanks so much