Amazing Crumb Cake Recipe

Hey , I'm John Cane .

And today on Preppy kitchen , we're making a delicious crumb cake .

So let's get started to make this recipe .

You'll need all purpose flour , white and brown sugar , baking powder , baking soda , milk butter , one egg , a little bit of salt , some delicious vanilla , cinnamon , sour cream and just a touch of powdered sugar for dusting at the end .

First off set that oven to 3 25 line an eight by eight inch pan with parchment paper .

And now we're gonna make that delicious crumble .

This crumb topping is like crunchy sweet and just so perfect because the cake itself is soft .

It just melts in your mouth .

It's a really nice contrast .

You want three quarters of a cup of flour , one quarter cup of granulated sugar , 50 g , half a cup of firmly packed brown sugar .

That's 100 and 10 g .

Firmly pack it in OK .

When it falls out , it's like a hockey puck , half a teaspoon of salt for contrast and two teaspoons of ground cinnamon .

You can add more spices to this if you like , but it's totally up to you .

Cinnamon adds just like a little bit of flavor and it's so delicious .

You can let us know in the comments what you would add to this .

If anything , I'm a sucker for cardamom .

Break this brown sugar apart since we tamped it down and now we're gonna whisk this all together .

And I have to tell you like , whenever I have brown sugar in a recipe , I like to use my hands and just break it up because it ends up being little clumps .

And I want this to be like a very uniform mixture that we're then gonna crumble .

Now , we have nice little sandy Granules hanging around .

We're gonna take half a cup or 100 and 13 g of sugar .

Butter me , pour your butter in just while mixing with your fork .

This will help you get those crumbles that you want .

So we're basically making a Strus topping for this cake .

And this is a cake that many people enjoy with a cup of coffee or tea in the morning .

So it can also be considered a coffee cake .

So right now we have this like wet sand consistency .

Oh It's so delicious already , but it doesn't look very crumbly .

And that's because we have to add an extra three quarters of a cup of flour .

Now , we're gonna add the flour kind of while I stir .

And your goal here is to create some delicious crumbles that vary in size from a giant boulders to a little tiny pieces .

If it all just kind of forms one big glom like that's because your butter is a little bit hot so you can just come back and break it up later .

It's not a big deal .

This is one of those cakes that is so snack .

If it's like just hanging out , everyone takes a piece as they walk by and it disappears in a flash .

So you might have to go into cake hiding mode .

This looks nice .

You can see I have a variety of crumbles right here that go from big pieces to small .

This gets set aside and was scattered on top right before it goes into the oven .

Now for the cake and this is a delicious like sour cream cake that this is like , oh , it's so tender .

You're gonna love it .

1.5 cups of flour , 100 and 80 g into a bowl , quarter teaspoon of salt for a contrast .

Gonna use half a teaspoon of baking soda and half a teaspoon of baking powder scale is done .

We're gonna whisk this up .

Just distribute all those leavening agents in the salt , set this aside and you can grab a stand mixer or a big bowl and a hand mixer .

Now in the bowl of your mixer , you're gonna combine half a cup of butter , 100 and 13 g .

Room temperature , please .

And half a cup of sugar right in there .

And today I'm gonna use something I haven't used for many years if you've watched the channel way back when .

Yeah , you know what happened ?

That's all I'm gonna say .

Anyways , we're gonna see if we can make this uh special paddle work .

Basically , the last time I used this paddle attachment , everything went .

But this time I know what I'm doing .

I get it the right way .

You're gonna cream your butter and sugar up for about three minutes on high until it's light and fluffy .

That looks light .

That looks fluffy .

I wanna measure out a third of a cup of sour cream .

This stuff is so good .

It has a little bit of acidity to .

It really holds a lot of moisture in the cake .

It just gives you this crumb .

That's so nice and amazing .

I also wanna add one egg right in there .

We're gonna mix this in first scrape the bowl down , make sure it's nice and smooth , scrape , scrape , scrape because we want a consistency .

That is the same right now .

I have like a wet egg mixture on top with the butter on the bottom .

So that's not what we want .

Hm .

Ok .

This looks great .

Nice and totally homogenous throughout .

You can take a look .

So now we have some more delicious things to add that third of a cup of sour cream .

I'm gonna add a quarter cup of milk and here you go and two teaspoons of vanilla .

This looks kind of crazy .

It's not what we normally do because you would normally add in like wet , dry , wet , dry , but we're gonna get all these delicious things together first and then add the flour mixture in .

So let's mix it up .

Don't worry if it looks a little bit curdled or things have separated , that's fine .

And by the way , if you don't have sour cream around , you can sub in a full fat yogurt .

This is reminding me of a lot of sour cream cakes that I love .

I should make a sour cream playlist just to show you really quickly .

The mixture is kind of runny and curdled .

That's what you want .

So that's good .

Don't worry if that's what you see , we're gonna run the mixer on low and slowly add the flour mixture in so a little bit at a time and then we're gonna finish this off by hand .

So it's almost combined right now .

I'm definitely seeing some streaks of flour here and there .

But I'm really a proponent of just finishing the batter by hand every single time because one of the main problems people have when they bake any cake is over mixing the batter .

A lot of recipes don't tell you or they tell you to run the mixer for a long time .

What are you doing ?

So , here take a look .

This mixture has flour that's scattered around .

We're just gonna fold that in and look on the bottom .

There's some runny stuff .

We don't want any of that .

So just mix it all together .

As soon as you see , the mixture is homogenous .

You're done .

Don't keep mixing .

This looks great .

So we're ready to get everything into the pan .

Now , we're gonna transfer this really thick batter that we made right into our pan .

The more you scrape out , the less you have to clean and the more cake you'll have .

So I'm gonna smooth this all out just because I want a good base for my crumble to go onto .

All right .

Just work it all the way to the edges .

It will self level a bit .

But this batter is thick now , grab that crumble and spread it evenly all over the top .

I love the colors on this .

It's so beautiful .

If you see any giant shards , you can break them up , spread those crumbles out just so they're evenly distributed .

Now we're gonna pop this into the oven 3 25 for 40 minutes , 40 longer baked time .

But lower temperature will give you just a really nice tender delicious crumb .

Here you go .

Let your cake cool and pan for about 10 minutes and then oh look at that .

The beauty of parchment paper .

This gets finished off with a Sprinkle of powdered sugar .

It's optional , but it's so pretty .

Now for the cut .

I had to show you cutting into this because this cake is amazing .

You know , a cake is good when the crumb looks like that .

It is so moist and lovely .

This will be gone in a flash .

Oh .

Oh , I'm smiling your dear .

I hope you get a chance to make this recipe .

The cake is like clouds .

It's like clouds that became a cake topped with this crunchy crumble is everything you want and more .

I hope you get a chance to make this recipe and I'll see you in the next video if you like this recipe .

Check out my easy cake playlist .