** YOU WILL HAVE EXTRA BATTER. SEE BELOW***
Preheat oven to 360 F. Wash all fruits. Hull strawberries and chop ends off of rhubarb. Squash 1/4 of the strawberries and put them in a bowl with 1/2 cup sugar. Cover with plastic and let it sit.

Chop rhubarb into manageable sized pieces and place in food processor along with 1/4 cup sugar, ginger and a splash of that orange blossom water. Use regular water if you don’t have it. Get it to the consistency you see below. Cover and reserve.

Sift together the dry ingredients. Cream together two sticks of butter and 2 cups sugar. Add the eggs in one at a time and combine. Add in half the dry ingredients. Combine. Add buttermilk. Combine. Add remaining dry ingredients. Combine. Drain syrup from strawberries and rhubarb. Combine and reserve. Add in rhubarb. Combine.

Put brown sugar into oven safe pan with 1/4 cup butter. Add in a splash of the strawberry syrup that was reserved. Melt over medium low heat. When dissolved and bubbly, turn off heat and add in strawberries followed by cake batter.

Bake until bubbly and top begins browning. I suggest placing a cookie sheet under the pan to catch the molten caramel. Honestly, the cake looks good like this. I decided to flip it but couldn’t flip it back. It’s really up to you.

Grease up some muffin pans if you don’t want to make two cakes. Simmer the reserved syrup. Add in the cornstarch and water to thicken it up just a bit.

The muffins took about 25 minutes at the same temperature. Remove from muffin pans and individually dip each into the strawberry rhubarb syrup. Immediately throw some mint on it while they’re sticky.