crumb cake

Topping-laden coffee pastry

Crumb cake is a coffee cake topped with a thick layer of crumbly streusel—a mixture of butter, sugar, and flour that bakes into sweet, sandy clumps.

The crumb topping is the defining feature, often as thick as the cake itself: She picked the crumbs off the top first.

Particularly associated with New York and New Jersey bakeries.

Related

baking pan · bakery · breakfast · Sunday brunch · moist · sweet · brown sugar · tender · slice · German · New Jersey · dusted · powdered sugar · vanilla · dense · golden · afternoon tea · fork

Categories
Opposites
topping style

crumb cakefondant cake

Dessert covered in sugar paste

wedding cake · buttercream cake · tiered cake · petit fours · layer cake

texture profile

crumb cakemousse cake

Aerated cream dessert on cake

cheesecake · tres leches cake · custard tart · chiffon cake · molten lava cake

topping/coating style

crumb cakefondant cake

Dessert covered in sugar paste

buttercream cake · sheet cake · wedding cake · birthday cake · petit four

Family

crumb, cake, crumbs, crumble, crumbled, crumbling, crumbly, cakes, caked

Familiarity
Top 500,000
Profile
Known to kids · Timeless · Concrete · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G