It's Rhubarb Season!

This year, the season was not too short or too awkwardly placed in the year (as it was last year, due to some weird reason...) and there was the traditional rhubarb cake. 

It's not quite as big a thing as asparagus in Germany (but then, there's few things that can aspire to that), but I really like rhubarb. Especially if it's in combination with Streusel. In contrast to strawberries, which I like just as much or sometimes even better on their own, rhubarb also profits from getting baked, or cooked, so there's no issues with too much of it disappearing before touching the cake base.

Last year there was too many other things going on, and too much being away, so we didn't get around to baking The Rhubarb Cake, which is a firm favourite here. Unfortunately (as otherwise it would be too good to be true) it does require a little bit of work, and some time to make it, so it's not a quick thing you throw together inbetween other stuff. And then you also need to eat it ; ) 

Anyways, there was rhubarb and time this year, so we now have the best of rhubarb cakes (in our opinion). If you're curious and would like to know the recipe... I've blogged about it before, so here you go.

It's so hot here, by the way, that we now have nightly sightings of hedgehogs taking a drink from the flat bowl of water we are placing out for them. Which, now that I'm thinking about it, would make a grand excuse to get some iced coffee and a piece of cake and sit outside here. Mh. Right now.