Best Old Fashioned Crumb Cake Recipes

OLD FASHIONED CRUMB CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Lightly grease a 7x11 inch baking pan or casserole dish.
• Combine sugar, flour and butter. Use a fork to cut butter in until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Set aside 1/2 cup of this mixture to use as topping.
• To the remaining flour mixture, add cinnamon, cloves, baking soda and salt. Lightly stir in the buttermilk and egg. Pour batter into prepared pan. Sprinkle cake with reserved topping.
• Bake in preheated oven for 25 minutes, until a toothpick inserted into center of the cake comes out clean.

OLD-FASHIONED CRUMB CAKE

Steps:

• Make dough:
• Stir together yeast, 1/4 cup warm milk, and 1 tablespoon sugar in bowl of mixer until yeast is dissolved, then let stand until foamy, about 5 minutes. (If mixture doesn't foam, discard and start over with new yeast.)
• Stir together lemon juice and remaining 3/4 cup milk and let stand until curdled, 1 to 2 minutes.
• Add 3 3/4 cups flour to yeast mixture along with salt, eggs, vanilla, and remaining 1/2 cup sugar and mix at low speed until just combined. Add curdled milk and beat at medium speed until a dough forms. Add butter, 1 piece at a time, beating, then continue to beat until dough is silky and elastic, 5 to 8 minutes. (Dough will be very sticky.) Sprinkle with remaining 2 tablespoons flour and cover bowl with a clean kitchen towel (not terry cloth). Let dough rise in a draft-free place at warm room temperature until doubled in bulk, 1 1/2 to 2 hours.
• Make topping:
• Pulse together topping ingredients in a food processor until many large clumps form. Transfer to a bowl and chill, covered, until ready to use.
• Form and bake cake:
• Butter a 13- by 9-inch baking dish or pan.
• Stir dough several times with a rubber scraper to release air, then spread evenly in baking dish.
• Sprinkle dough with half of topping, then cover dish with kitchen towel and let dough rise again in a draft-free place at warm room temperature until almost doubled in bulk, 1 to 1 1/2 hours.
• Put oven rack in middle of oven and preheat oven to 350°F.
• Sprinkle remaining topping over top of cake and bake until topping is golden, 55 to 60 minutes. Cool cake in pan on a rack until barely warm, then cut into squares.

OLD FASHIONED CRUMB CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375F and grease an 8" baking pan; line pan with parchment paper and lightly oil.
• Mix shortening, sugar, and 2 cups of flours until it is crumbly and fine.
• Reserve 3/4 of this mixture and set off to side.
• Sift the rest of the flour and add to it the baking powder, cinnamon, and salt.
• Combine the crumb mixture.
• Add the egg and milk, mixing well.
• Pour into prepared pan.
• Take the reserved crumbs and sprinkle it on top of the cake.
• Bake in oven for 35 - 40 minutes.

OLD FASHIONED CRUMB CAKE

Steps:

• Sift together flour, salt and 1/2 tsp. cinnamon into large bowl. Add brown and granulated sugars and oil. Mix at medium speed with electric mixer or with spoon until well blended and fluffy. Measure out 3/4 cup of this mixture for topping and add nuts, remaining 1 tsp. cinnamon and nutmeg. Add soda, baking powder, egg and buttermilk to remaining flour mixture and stir until smooth. Turn into a well greased 9x13 inch baking pan and level top. Sprinkle with topping mixture and press in lightly with the back of a spoon. Bake at 350 deg. 30 to 35 minutes or until the top springs back when touched lightly. Cut into squares and serve warm with butter or margarine. Any leftover crumb cake can be wrapped in foil and reheated in a moderate oven or sliced to serve cold.

OLD-FASHIONED CRUMB CAKE

Steps:

• 1. NOTE: To make sour milk, add 1 teaspoon white vinegar to 1 cup milk.
• 2. Blend flour, butter and cinnamon until mixture resembles cornmeal. Reserve 1 cup flour mixture for top.
• 3. Add sugar, nutmeg, salt, egg, sour milk and baking soda; blend slowly.
• 4. Pour into greased 9-inch square baking dish.
• 5. Sprinkle reserved crumb mixture on top.
• 6. Bake at 350 for 30 minutes, or until straw inserted in center comes out clean.

OLD-FASHIONED CRUMB CAKE

Steps:

• Adjust oven rack to center position and heat oven to 350°.
• Generously grease bottom and lightly grease sides of 10-inch springform pan and dust with flour.
• With electric mixer, mix flour, sugar, and salt in large mixing bowl until blended.
• Cut in butter until mixture resembles coarse crumbs.
• Remove 1 cup of crumbs to separate bowl.
• Mix baking powder and soda into mixture remaining in large mixing bowl.
• Add buttermilk, egg, and vanilla; mix well until batter is thick, smooth, fluffy, and frostinglike, 1 1/2- 2 minutes.
• Using a rubber spatula, scrape batter into prepared pan and smooth top.
• Add nuts, brown sugar, cinnamon and allspice to reserved crumbs; toss with a fork or your hands until blended.
• Sprinkle crumbs over batter, pressing lightly so that mixture adheres.
• Bake cake until center is firm and cake tester comes out clean, 50- 55 minutes. TIP: Do not insert a toothpick to test for doneness until center is firm when pan is shaken.
• Transfer cake to rack; remove pan sides.
• Let cake cool completely, about 2 hours, before serving.
• When completely cooled, cake can be slid off pan bottom onto serving plate.