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Rhubarb and jamaica skillet upside-down cake

Rick Bayless · ♥ 463 likes · 11.3K views · 25 min video

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  • ½ cup water
  • ½ cup sugar
Combine the water and sugar in a small saucepan over medium heat, swirling to dissolve the sugar.
  • dried jamaica flowers
Add the dried jamaica flowers; once simmering, simmer gently about 10 minutes, then strain out the flowers.
  • flour
  • baking soda
  • baking powder
  • salt
Whisk the flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt together in a bowl.
In a mixer, cream half the butter with sugar; add the egg, sour cream, milk and a dash of vanilla.
  • butter
  • sugar
  • 1 whole egg
  • sour cream
  • milk
  • vanilla
Add the dry ingredients in three additions, blending each in before the next.
  • dark brown sugar
Melt the second half of the butter with dark brown sugar in a 10-inch non-stick skillet over medium heat.
Cooking the rhubarb in the skillet
  • 1½ cup rhubarb
  • jamaica syrup
Add the rhubarb cut in half-inch pieces and a little jamaica syrup; once simmering, cook about five minutes until the rhubarb softens. Turn off the heat.
Scrape the batter over the hot rhubarb and spread to the edges.
Bake in a 350 degree oven 25 to 30 minutes, until springy in the center.
Cool 10 minutes, then flip out onto a plate while still a little warm.
  • sweet and sour cream
  • powdered sugar
Pour sweet and sour cream over the top and sprinkle with powdered sugar.
Plating the spring lamb dinner