Best Selling Crumb Cake Recipes

Steps:

• For the streusel: Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F.
• Stir together the pecans, flour, brown sugar, granulated sugar, cinnamon and butter in a large bowl until wet, sandy and combined. Spread 3/4 cup on a baking sheet (set the remaining aside for the cake). Bake until the streusel is set and crispy, about 15 minutes. Break up the pieces with a spatula and let cool completely in the pan, about 30 minutes. Break up the pieces into crumbs with your hands and set aside.
• For the cake: Grease a 9-by-13-inch baking sheet with butter. Whisk the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt in a medium bowl.
• Beat the butter and granulated sugar in a large bowl with an electric mixer on medium-high speed until light and fluffy, about 3 minutes. Add the eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in the vanilla. Reduce the speed to low and add the flour mixture in 3 batches, alternating with the sour cream; begin and end with the flour and beat until just incorporated.
• Pour the batter into the prepared pan (it will be very thick) and smooth with a silicone spatula. Press 15 mini doughnuts or 6 regular doughnuts into the batter and sprinkle over the reserved un-baked streusel topping. Bake until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean, 60 to 65 minutes. Run a knife around the edge of the pan to loosen any streusel that has baked on. Let cool in the pan for 1 hour, then invert onto a serving platter to cool completely, about 2 hours more.
• For the frosting: Meanwhile, beat the cream cheese and butter in a medium bowl with an electric mixer on medium speed until light and fluffy. Slowly add 1 1/2 cups confectioners' sugar, 1/2 cup at a time, until well combined. Add the vanilla, beating until well combined.
• Assemble the cake: To make a glaze, mix the remaining 1/2 cup confectioners' sugar in a small bowl with 1 tablespoon water until smooth. Use a serrated knife to trim the edges from the short sides of the cake to make sharp corners. Cut the cake in half crosswise.
• Put a cake half on a cake stand or serving platter. Reserve 1/4 cup frosting and spread the remaining frosting on the top of the cake, then place the other piece of cake on top. Cut the remaining 4 mini doughnuts or 3 regular doughnuts in half and spread some of the reserved frosting on the cut ends. Put the doughnuts on the top of the cake around the edge, cut-side down. Sprinkle the reserved streusel on the center of the cake and drizzle with the glaze. Refrigerate to set, about 2 hours. Bring to room temperature, about 1 hour, before serving.

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350. Grease a 15x10x1-inch baking pan. Lightly dust pan with flour; shake out any excess flour.
• Cake: Combine cake mix, sour cream, oil, eggs, cinnamon and nutmeg in large bowl. Beat according to package directions. Pour batter into prepared pan.
• Bake at 350 for 20 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.
• Topping: Blend flour, brown sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg and melted butter in medium bowl until mixture is evenly moistened and clumps together.
• Remove cake from oven. Sprinkle with crumbs (this will be a thick layer). Return to oven; bake 15 minutes or until crumbs are slightly set. Remove pan to wire rack and let cool completly.
• Glaze: Whisk 8 tablespoons of the confectioner's sugar with the sour cream in a bowl. Dust top of cake evenly with remaining 2 tablespoons confectioners sugar. Drizzle with glaze. Store cake, tightly covered at room temperature for up to 3 days.

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350*.Coat a 13x9" baking pan with nonstick cooking spray -- set aside.
• to prepare the cake: combine cake mix, sour crea,m, eggs, vegetable oil and lemon zest in a large bowl -- beat on low speed for 30 seonds then on medium high for 2 minutes. Fold in 1 1/2 cups of cranberries -- pour batter into prepared baking pan --
• bake at 350* for 30 minutes.
• meanwhile, make topping: in a medium sized bowl, whisk together the flour, browm sugar, cinnamon and nutmeg and salt. stir in butter until mixture is moistened and starts to clump together.carefully remove the cake from the oven -- sprinkle crumb evenly over the top -- scatter with remaining cranberries and then return to the oven and bake at 350* for an additional 20 minutes -- remove pan to wire rack and cool completely --
• dust lightly with confectioners' suar and cut into 16 squares.

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350*F. Grease a 10" springform pan, line the bottom with parchment paper, and butter the flour. Lightly flour the pan, tapping out all excess.
• Make the crumbs: Stir toghether the flour, brown sugar, cinnamon, salt, and melted butter. At first it might look as if the crumb mixture is too wet, but it will become more "crumbly" after it sits a few minutes; set aside.
• For the cake: Sift together the flour, sugar, baking powder, cinnamon, and salt into a medium bowl.
• Combine the egg, milk, oil, and vanilla; mix well until blended.
• Stir the mixture into the dry ingredients and mix just until smooth and blended.
• Spread batter evenly in the prepared pan; batter will just cover the bottom.
• Place the cranberries in a single even layer over the batter, leaving a 1/4" border around the outer perimeter of the pan.
• Scatter the crumbs evenly over the berries and cake batter border, breaking up any excessively large chunks in the process; press crumbs down lightly to adhere.
• Bake about 50 minutes or until cake tests done.
• Cool completely on a rack; run a butter knife around the edges of the pan to loosen and release the springform sides.
• Dust with powdered sugar; store at room temperature. (This can be made up to 1 day in advance.).