Crumb cake is a soft, buttery cake topped with a thick layer of sweet, crumbly streusel—perfect with tea or coffee.
🍰 Classic Crumb Cake (Bakery-Style)
🧈 Crumb Topping
- 1 cup flour
- ½ cup brown sugar
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- Pinch of salt
- ½ cup melted butter
👉 Mix until you get chunky crumbs. Set aside.
🍰 Cake Batter
- 1½ cups flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
- ½ tsp baking soda
- ¼ tsp salt
- ½ cup butter (softened)
- ¾ cup sugar
- 2 eggs
- ½ cup milk or yogurt
- 1 tsp vanilla
🔪 Instructions
- Preheat oven to 180°C.
- Grease and line a baking pan.
- Cream butter + sugar until fluffy.
- Add eggs one at a time, then vanilla.
- Mix dry ingredients separately, then combine with wet.
- Pour batter into pan.
- Generously sprinkle crumb topping.
- Bake 35–45 minutes until a toothpick comes out clean.
💡 Tips
- Don’t overmix the batter—keeps it soft.
- Make big crumbs for that bakery look.
- Add nuts or a little extra cinnamon if you like.
🍽️ Variations
- Add apple slices → apple crumb cake
- Add cocoa to crumbs → chocolate twist
- Add a thin jam layer in the middle
If you want, I can give you a quick eggless version or a no-oven stovetop method 👍
