Elements:
for the cake:
1/2 cup gentle brown sugar
6 tablespoons butter, at room temperature
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 egg, at room temperature
2 cups flour
1 tablespoon baking powder
pinch salt
3/4 cup milk, at room temperature
1 cup complete berry cranberry sauce (I used this apple-cranberry sauce)
for the crumb topping:
1/2 cup gentle brown sugar
1/4 cup sugar
1 tablespoon floor cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon allspice
pinch nutmeg
pinch salt
1 1/4 cup flour
1/2 cup butter, melted and cooled barely
Instructions:
Preheat oven to 350. Butter and flour an 8×8 inch pan. Put aside.
for the cake:
In a big bowl or within the bowl of a stand mixer, cream the sugar and butter with an electrical mixer. Beat within the egg and vanilla. Whisk the flour, baking powder and salt collectively in a small bowl. With the mixer on low add the flour and milk alternately to the butter combination, stopping with flour. Spoon the batter into the ready pan. Easy with the again of a spoon to type an excellent layer. Unfold the cranberry sauce over the batter in an excellent layer. Put aside.
for the crumb topping:
In a small bowl, whisk collectively the sugars, cinnamon, allspice, nutmeg, salt, and flour. Pour within the butter and use a fork to coat the combination in butter, leaving massive crumbs unbroken. Sprinkle evenly over the cake. You’ll have some crumb combination leftover. Bake 1 hour or till a toothpick within the center comes out with just some moist crumbs. Cool utterly on a wire rack earlier than serving.
My ideas:
My husband is from NYC the place crumb topped desserts rule supreme. The extra crumbs the higher! Crumb desserts and occasional desserts are intently associated however aren’t all the time the identical factor. Crumb cake all the time has a crumb topping whereas espresso desserts (desserts made to eat with espresso, not coffee-flavored desserts) might or might have a crumb topping. Don’t confuse them with New Jersey crumb buns (which we see in bakeries round Baltimore too) which have a crumb topping however a yeast based mostly cake base.
The perfect New York-style crumb cake has a young cake however very crunchy topping. This cake has each and a shock ingredient: cranberry sauce! My husband can be a giant fan of cranberry sauce and we make it a good quantity when cranberries are in season however since we’re solely two folks, we find yourself with a bunch leftover. Why not mix the 2?
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