New York Style Crumb Cake
Submitted by MrsM on February 07, 2010 at 4:04 pm

DESCRIPTION
New York Style Crumb Cake

SUMMARY
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INSTRUCTIONS
This recipe is from Cook's Illustrated, May/June 2007. I have given two crumb toppings - the one that came with the recipe, and the Foster's Market crumb topping, which is my favorite, hands down.

New York-Style Crumb Cake
8 inch square

CI Crumb Topping
1/3 cup (2 1/3 ounces) granulated sugar
1/3 cup (2 2/3 ounces) dark brown sugar
3/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/8 teaspoon salt
1 stick unsalted butter, melted
1 3/4 cups (7 ounces) bleached AP flour

Foster’s Crumb Topping - THE BEST!
7 ounces bleached AP flour
3 3/4 ounces light brown sugar
1 1/4 teaspoons cinnamon
8 2/3 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted
1/16 teaspoon salt

Cake
6 tablespoons unsalted butter, softened
5 ounces cake flour or bleached AP flour (I prefer the bleached flour)
1/2 cup (3 1/2 ounces) granulated sugar
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 large egg plus one large yolk
1/3 cup buttermilk
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Confectioner’s sugar for dusting

Topping: Combine dry ingredients to blend well. Add melted butter and stir with a fork until there is no more dry flour mixture remaining. Set aside for 20 minutes. Do not skip the rest period, or the crumbs will be greasy.

Cake: Adjust oven rack to upper-middle position and heat oven to 325°. Grease and flour an 8x8 square pan.

Cream butter until softened. Combine flour, sugar, baking soda, and salt in a separate bowl. Add to creamed butter, and beat on 2nd lowest speed for 2 minutes, until mixture resembles coarse sand, with no visible butter chunks remaining. Scrape down bowl. Add eggs, vanilla, and buttermilk; beat on speed 6 until light and fluffy, about 1 minute.

Scrape batter into baking pan; spread batter into even layer. Spread crumbs in an even layer over batter, beginning with edges first and then working towards center. Bake until a wooden skewer inserted into center of cake comes out clean, 35 to 40 minutes. Cool completely on a wire rack. Dust with confectioner’s sugar before serving.