Rhubarb-jamaica skillet upside-down sour cream cake
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- ½ cup water
- ½ cup sugar
Put the water and sugar in a small saucepan over medium heat and swirl to dissolve the sugar.
- dried jamaica flowers
Add the dried jamaica flowers; bring to a simmer and 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.
- butter
- sugar
- 1 whole egg
- sour cream
- milk
- vanilla
In the mixer, cream half the butter with sugar; add the egg, sour cream, milk and vanilla, then 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.
- 1½ cup rhubarb
Cut the rhubarb into about half-inch pieces and add to the skillet with a little of the jamaica syrup; bring to a simmer and cook about 5 minutes until the rhubarb softens. Turn off the heat.
Scrape the sour cream batter over the hot rhubarb, spreading it to the edges.
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.