New York Crumb Cake
It has taken me exactly 11549 days of my life to finally try a crumb cake! Yes, that’s right, little ol’ me has spent 31 years and 227 days without ye wonderfulness of crumb cake. I know, I know… sad. Please don’t hurt me.
But my days of drooling over your crumb cakes and wondering what they taste like are over.
I now live in crumb cake land, and I’m happy to be here. It even has its own zip code.
I love anything with a crumb, streusel or crumble coating, so I knew I’d love this cake. And I was right too, like little pillows of soft cake for the crumbs to rest on. 
I barely adapted the recipe but I did decide to opt for cinnamon sugar instead of icing (confectioners’) sugar for the final dusting. It amped up the cinnamon already present and accounted for.
I guess I’ll be crumbing everything up from now on. (Read: keep an eye out 
)
Enjoy.
New York Crumb Cake Recipe
Prep Time: 15 mins
Cook Time: 20 mins
Yield: 9x12in cake
Ingredients:
- 2 tbsp canola or vegetable oil, plus more for pan
- 4 cups plain (all-purpose) flour, plus more for pan
- ½ cup granulated sugar
- 2½ tsp baking powder
- ½ tsp salt
- 1 large egg
- ½ cup milk
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 cup packed brown sugar
- 1½ tsp ground cinnamon
- 1 cup (226g) unsalted butter, melted and cooled
- icing (confectioners’) sugar or cinnamon sugar for dusting
Directions:
- Preheat your oven to 160℃/325℉/Gas Mark 3. Grease and flour a 9×12 inch baking pan and set aside.
- In a medium bowl, sift together 1½ cups flour, granulated sugar, baking powder, and salt; set aside. In a second bowl, whisk together egg, milk, canola oil, and vanilla. Using a rubber spatula, fold dry ingredients into egg mixture.
- Spread batter evenly into prepared pan, and set aside. In a medium bowl, combine remaining 2½ cups flour, brown sugar, and cinnamon. Pour melted butter over flour mixture, and toss with a rubber spatula until large crumbs form. Sprinkle crumbs over batter.
- Bake in the centre of the oven, rotating pan after 10 minutes. Continue baking until a cake tester comes out clean, about 10 minutes more.
- Transfer baking pan to a wire rack to cool. Dust with confectioners’ sugar, cinnamon sugar or vanilla sugar. Using a serrated knife or bench scraper, cut into 3-inch squares.
- Store in an airtight container for up to 3 days.
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No wonder you’re in crumb cake land, now. It looks and sounds great!
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Lisa {Sweet 2 Eat Baking} recently posted…Meringue Kisses
I’ve only made crumb cake once, but I don’t think it looked this PRETTY! YUM!
Sue recently posted…Valentine Snowball Cookies
You think so? I just dolloped it all in. Maybe my OCD in smoothing the crumbs out make it that way? *shrug*
Thanks Sue.
Lisa {Sweet 2 Eat Baking} recently posted…Meringue Kisses
i van never, ever turn down a crumb cake and especially not one as gorgeous and “crumby” as this version. Can I come move to crumb cake land with you?
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Pack your bag girlfriend, and welcome to crumb cake land! Thanks Sally.
Lisa {Sweet 2 Eat Baking} recently posted…Meringue Kisses
Gorgeous Lisa! I want a pillow made of crumb, so I can eat through the night.
Dorothy @ Crazy for Crust recently posted…Cake Batter Dip Dessert Snackadium with Pillsbury
Maybe we should take out the pillows from their covers and stuff with crumb cake instead? I’m sure it’d make a great comfy pillow and satisfy those night hunger pangs too.
Thanks Dorothy.
Lisa {Sweet 2 Eat Baking} recently posted…Meringue Kisses
Yum! Lisa this looks so scrummy. I’ve never ever tried crumb cake either. Maybe I should make one
Tash @ The Velvet Moon Baker recently posted…The Liebster Award
Definitely Tash, I like to see what we’ve been missing out on when discovering new recipes!
If you’d like, I can send you the gram version of this recipe too since I weighed the ingredients to work out that.
Thanks Tash.
Lisa {Sweet 2 Eat Baking} recently posted…Meringue Kisses
YUM! I need to try this, too…who could resist that amazing layer of streusel??? Not me!
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I know, a little piece of heaven. Thanks Liz.
Lisa {Sweet 2 Eat Baking} recently posted…Meringue Kisses
Welcome. Welcome to the land of crumb cake. It is a wonderful place.
This cake looks SO GOOD! I love how there’s like more crumb than cake-buaahahaaaa
Kayle (The Cooking Actress) recently posted…Homemade Dark Chocolate Walnut Butter
I’m so glad you’re in crumb cake land too! It’s the best place to be.
And you’re right, it does look as though there’s more crumb than cake. That’s because I had dessert OCD and smoothed the crumbs therefore pushing them slightly down into the cake batter so the cake rose inbetween the crumbs of chaos.
Thanks Kayle.
Lisa {Sweet 2 Eat Baking} recently posted…Meringue Kisses
I love how you apologize for the photography when it is 10x better than my photography haha. I love a good crumble cake, especially with a big cup of coffee. Looks delicious, I will definitely have to try this recipe. Thanks for sharing!
Sincerely,
Happy Valley Chow
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Haha, I don’t think so. It’s because the colours are off on this photo. I do most, if not all, of my baking at night and lately I’ve been behind so baked and photographed on the same day. Darn the winter months and sunsets at 4pm!
Thanks Eric.
Lisa {Sweet 2 Eat Baking} recently posted…Meringue Kisses
Lisa this looks fab! I’ve never made crumb cake either and will definitely be trying after this! All the cinnamon in there is amazing. Your photos look great and better than my daytime photography
I was thinking of trying to make a homemade lightbox so I could do more photography during the week 
Joy @ Baking-Joy recently posted…Lemon curd cupcakes
Yes, make a crumb cake – you won’t regret it. I have the recipe worked out into grams if you want it in grams? I weighed the cups to work it out so exact grams given that I used myself.
Ad so not true about your photography! *shakes head* I wouldn’t say you’d need a lightbox really. They can be pretty n’ all but if you have an external flash with a diffusor then you can carry on without.
My photography is mainly done at night (since it gets dark at 4pm, darn winter) with an external flash and on-camera diffusor (Stofen) and a reflector. The only problems I have is shutter speed dropping too low which can be resolved by a tripod and white balance which can be resolved by a grey card.
I do need to dig my studio lights out the loft though, would be so much easier than faffing about editing after. 
Lisa {Sweet 2 Eat Baking} recently posted…Meringue Kisses
Thank you for that advice, I’ll definitely be looking for a diffusor now. I’m loving the photography, but man it’s an expensive hobby! I need a way of photography during the week, as I’m only really baking at the weekend at the moment and I miss it during the week!
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Tell me about it! I have a thing with the Canon L lenses because they’re weather sealed (I do motorsport photography too – it’s quite dirty
) and paid £800 many years ago for the 24-70 2.8 L. Not to mention almost 3k for the 5D body alone.
At night time though, I’m loving my 50mm 1.4 (the 1.8 version breaks easily). I just ensure that I bump my ISO high enough that the shutter doesn’t drop below 60. Anything below 60 and you need a tripod. A good rule of thumb though if your using a zoom lens without IS is to use the same shutter as the zoom when handholding to prevent camera shake blur.
Lisa {Sweet 2 Eat Baking} recently posted…Meringue Kisses
I love crumb cake. So glad you discovered it after all this time. Yours looks incredibly moist and yummy. Cinnamon sugar is such a great idea on it
Laura Dembowski recently posted…Triple Peanut Butter Puppy Chow
You’d think so but children can be so fussy with spices. They just want chocolate cake and cookies and that’s that. *I* loved the extra buzz from the cinnamon sugar, so delicious.
Thanks Laura.
Lisa {Sweet 2 Eat Baking} recently posted…Meringue Kisses
Welcome to the wonderful world of crumb cake! So delicious , I love cakes, pies, bars, muffins, anything with crumbs on top! Looks like your first crumb cake was a huge success!
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I’m hooked now too. In fact, I have a wonderful idea on my next crumb cake with a twist.
Thanks Kim.
Lisa {Sweet 2 Eat Baking} recently posted…Meringue Kisses
Damn if this cake doesn’t have me salivating
Cheers
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Lisa {Sweet 2 Eat Baking} recently posted…Meringue Kisses
I will admit that I sometimes make muffins just for the crumb toppings. At other times, they start off as crumb-topped muffins, but by the time I’m done letting them “cool” and bringing them to the party, they are crumbless sad little muffins…me and my picking habits! That being said, I really can’t wait to give this a go.
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Haha, I was doing the same with the crumb in this cake even before it went into the oven! So I can certainly see why they end up crumbles! Thanks Ala.
Lisa {Sweet 2 Eat Baking} recently posted…Meringue Kisses
As the unofficial Mayor of Crumb Cake Land, I’d like to welcome you
Stay as long as you like.
Your cake looks absolutely perfect! And a little extra cinnamon never sounds like a bad idea
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I’ve got my passport now so I’m a citizen for life.
But thanks for the welcome masterful Mayor. And a bit o’ cinnamon sugar never hurt anyone… unless you’re allergic to cinnamon that is, then I wouldn’t recommend it.
Thanks Jess.
Lisa {Sweet 2 Eat Baking} recently posted…Meringue Kisses
I loooooooove New York crumb cake. I’ve actually made one about 2 months ago. It;s DELICIOUS !!
Wonderful photos btw – really tempting looking
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Lisa {Sweet 2 Eat Baking} recently posted…Meringue Kisses
Wow, I really want to taste this. Looks delicious!!!
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The last time I had a crumb cake I was in school and it came from a Little Debbie package! I’m inspired to try a real crumb cake!! Thanks for sharing with One Creative Weekend!
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This looks delicious!
Thank you so much for linking up with Marvelous Mondays!
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Is this as good as it looks? Of course it is! If I had some here right now, my family might not find out it about it. I’d eat it all myself with a big glass of milk!
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Stopping in from Nifty Thrifty Sundays. This cake looks delicious – and good call on the cinnamon sugar. I’m adding this to my list of recipes to try!