Old Fashioned Crumb Cake Recipes

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375F and grease an 8" baking pan; line pan with parchment paper and lightly oil.
• Mix shortening, sugar, and 2 cups of flours until it is crumbly and fine.
• Reserve 3/4 of this mixture and set off to side.
• Sift the rest of the flour and add to it the baking powder, cinnamon, and salt.
• Combine the crumb mixture.
• Add the egg and milk, mixing well.
• Pour into prepared pan.
• Take the reserved crumbs and sprinkle it on top of the cake.
• Bake in oven for 35 - 40 minutes.

Steps:

• Adjust oven rack to center position and heat oven to 350°.
• Generously grease bottom and lightly grease sides of 10-inch springform pan and dust with flour.
• With electric mixer, mix flour, sugar, and salt in large mixing bowl until blended.
• Cut in butter until mixture resembles coarse crumbs.
• Remove 1 cup of crumbs to separate bowl.
• Mix baking powder and soda into mixture remaining in large mixing bowl.
• Add buttermilk, egg, and vanilla; mix well until batter is thick, smooth, fluffy, and frostinglike, 1 1/2- 2 minutes.
• Using a rubber spatula, scrape batter into prepared pan and smooth top.
• Add nuts, brown sugar, cinnamon and allspice to reserved crumbs; toss with a fork or your hands until blended.
• Sprinkle crumbs over batter, pressing lightly so that mixture adheres.
• Bake cake until center is firm and cake tester comes out clean, 50- 55 minutes. TIP: Do not insert a toothpick to test for doneness until center is firm when pan is shaken.
• Transfer cake to rack; remove pan sides.
• Let cake cool completely, about 2 hours, before serving.
• When completely cooled, cake can be slid off pan bottom onto serving plate.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Lightly grease a 7x11 inch baking pan or casserole dish.
• Combine sugar, flour and butter. Use a fork to cut butter in until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Set aside 1/2 cup of this mixture to use as topping.
• To the remaining flour mixture, add cinnamon, cloves, baking soda and salt. Lightly stir in the buttermilk and egg. Pour batter into prepared pan. Sprinkle cake with reserved topping.
• Bake in preheated oven for 25 minutes, until a toothpick inserted into center of the cake comes out clean.

Steps:

• Make dough:
• Stir together yeast, 1/4 cup warm milk, and 1 tablespoon sugar in bowl of mixer until yeast is dissolved, then let stand until foamy, about 5 minutes. (If mixture doesn't foam, discard and start over with new yeast.)
• Stir together lemon juice and remaining 3/4 cup milk and let stand until curdled, 1 to 2 minutes.
• Add 3 3/4 cups flour to yeast mixture along with salt, eggs, vanilla, and remaining 1/2 cup sugar and mix at low speed until just combined. Add curdled milk and beat at medium speed until a dough forms. Add butter, 1 piece at a time, beating, then continue to beat until dough is silky and elastic, 5 to 8 minutes. (Dough will be very sticky.) Sprinkle with remaining 2 tablespoons flour and cover bowl with a clean kitchen towel (not terry cloth). Let dough rise in a draft-free place at warm room temperature until doubled in bulk, 1 1/2 to 2 hours.
• Make topping:
• Pulse together topping ingredients in a food processor until many large clumps form. Transfer to a bowl and chill, covered, until ready to use.
• Form and bake cake:
• Butter a 13- by 9-inch baking dish or pan.
• Stir dough several times with a rubber scraper to release air, then spread evenly in baking dish.
• Sprinkle dough with half of topping, then cover dish with kitchen towel and let dough rise again in a draft-free place at warm room temperature until almost doubled in bulk, 1 to 1 1/2 hours.
• Put oven rack in middle of oven and preheat oven to 350°F.
• Sprinkle remaining topping over top of cake and bake until topping is golden, 55 to 60 minutes. Cool cake in pan on a rack until barely warm, then cut into squares.