{"id":204,"date":"2015-05-22T02:09:05","date_gmt":"2015-05-22T02:09:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grandmascookbook.ca\/?p=204"},"modified":"2015-05-22T02:09:05","modified_gmt":"2015-05-22T02:09:05","slug":"rhubarb-upside-down-cake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grandmascookbook.ca\/2015\/05\/rhubarb-upside-down-cake\/","title":{"rendered":"Rhubarb Upside Down Cake"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"slice_cake\"Mmm, Rhubarb season! First up is Grandma’s Rhubarb Upside down cake. The recipe was cut from a magazine or newspaper, but was kept with her collection of recipe cards!<\/p>\n

This is pretty easy (I was worried it would not flip over well-but tada!) and it calls for marshmallows to help sweeten it.<\/p>\n

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I was probably supposed to arrange the fruit & marshmallows in a pretty way… But hey, this was my first upside down cake!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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I used a 9″ round shallow cake pan and the ingredients just barely fit. I placed a cookie sheet under it in the oven just incase there was drippings!<\/p>\n

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The cake just barely fit – but the batter does not rise very much at all.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Yum!! Next time I’ll attempt a fun pattern with the fruit…<\/p>\n

\"flipped_cake\"Here is Grandma’s clipped recipe & printable recipe instructions!<\/p>\n

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Rhubarb Upside-Down Cake<\/h3>\n
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  • 3 cups rhubarb – chopped (1″)<\/li>\n
  • 10 large marshmallows (or mini marshmallows)<\/li>\n
  • Red Food coloring or some strawberries for color<\/li>\n
  • 2 cups sugar<\/li>\n
  • 1\/2 cup shortening\/butter\/margarine<\/li>\n
  • 2 eggs<\/li>\n
  • 1 3\/4 cups flour<\/li>\n
  • 1 Tablespoon Baking Powder<\/li>\n
  • 1\/2 teaspoon salt<\/li>\n
  • 1\/2 cup milk<\/li>\n
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla or almond extract<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
    Instructions:<\/h6>\n
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    1. Preheat oven to 350.<\/li>\n
    2. Arrange rhubarb, marshmallows and strawberries in a well buttered 10-inch pie dish or skillet.<\/li>\n
    3. (To add extra color, mix 1 cup of sugar with red food coloring). \u00a0Add this 1 cup of sugar (dyed or plain) sprinkled on top of fruit.<\/li>\n
    4. Cream shortening with the other cup of sugar. Add eggs 1 at a time.<\/li>\n
    5. Add dry ingredients alternating with milk & vanilla extract and mix.<\/li>\n
    6. Spread thick batter over fruit and bake for 40 -45 minutes or until toothpick comes out clean.<\/li>\n
    7. Wait 5 minutes, then loosen edge all around and invert onto a serving plate. \u00a0Tastes delicious served with ice cream or whipped cream.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n
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      Print the Recipe Only<\/div>
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      Mmm, Rhubarb season! First up is Grandma’s Rhubarb Upside down cake. The recipe was cut from a magazine or newspaper, but was kept with her collection of recipe cards! This is pretty easy (I was worried it would not flip over well-but tada!) and it calls for marshmallows to help …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":208,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grandmascookbook.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grandmascookbook.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grandmascookbook.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandmascookbook.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandmascookbook.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandmascookbook.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":210,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandmascookbook.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions\/210"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandmascookbook.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grandmascookbook.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandmascookbook.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandmascookbook.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}