If you like the crumb, just as much as the cake then you’re gonna love this New York Style Crumb Cake! A moist, delicious bakery-style cake topped with loads of cinnamon sugar crumble and dusted with powdered sugar.
Ingredients
Crumb Topping:
- ⅓ cup granulated sugar
- ⅓ cup brown sugar
- ¾ teaspoon cinnamon
- ⅛ teaspoon salt
- ½ cup butter (1 stick), melted
- 1¾ cup cake flour
Cake:
- 1¼ cup cake flour
- ½ cup granulated sugar
- ¼ teaspoon. baking soda
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- 6 tablespoons butter, cut into pieces
- 1 egg
- 1 egg yolk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- ⅓ cup buttermilk
- Powdered Sugar for dusting
Directions
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees and adjust an oven rack to the upper middle position. Line a 8×8″ square pan with parchement paper, with enough paper to fold over the sides. Set aside.
- Crumble Topping: Whisk together the granulated sugar, brown sugar, cinnamon, salt and flour. Pour melted butter over the mixture and use a rubber spatula or wooden spoon to mix thoroughly. Mixture will be thick and doughy. Set aside.
- Cake: With a hand or stand mixer, combine the flour, sugar, baking soda and salt and mix to combine. With mixer on low, begin adding the pieces of butter one at a time. Continue mixing until mixture resembles moist crumbs with no visible butter chucks remaining, about 1-2 minutes. Add egg, yolk, vanilla and buttermilk. Beat at medium for 1-2 minutes until the batter becomes light and fluffy, scraping down the sides of the bowl if necessary.
- Spread the batter evenly into the prepared pan. Top the batter with the crumble topping, breaking apart any big chunks into smaller pea-sized pieces. Start at the edges and work toward the center.
- Bake the cake for 35-40 minutes or until golden brown and toothpick inserted comes out clean and crumb-free. After baking, cool cake for at least 30 minutes.
- Remove cake from pan by lifting out of the pan by the edges of the parchment paper. Dust with powdered sugar.
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