Phylliss Coffee Crumb Cake Recipes

COFFEE CRUMB CAKE RECIPE

Steps:

• Add the brown sugar and cinnamon to a medium sized bowl. Mix together to combine. If it's really lumpy, sift together. Set aside.
• Add the flour, brown sugar, white sugar, salt, cinnamon, and soft (almost melted) butter to a large bowl. Mix together with a spoon or spatula until most of the flour is combined.
• Then use your clean hands to press the topping together. You should have very chunky crumbs, some large and some small. If it's too crumbly and dry, microwave it for about 5 seconds to melt the butter more, then work it with your hands until it comes together. Set aside.
• Preheat your oven to 350ºF (177ºC) and bring your butter, sour cream, cream cheese and egg to room temperature.I place my egg in a bowl of warm water for a few minutes and leave out the butter and sour cream for a few hours. If needed, I microwave them for a few seconds until they're room temperature or a little warm.
• Place room temperature butter and granulated sugar into the bowl of your stand mixer with the whisk attachment. (Or a large bowl if you're using a hand mixer.) Mix on medium/high and cream together until light and fluffy, about 2-3 minutes.Make sure it's fully creamed, if it's not light and fluffy then your cake could collapse.
• Add in your room temperature egg, room temperature sour cream and vanilla. Mix until combined. Your batter should look cohesive at this point. If it has chunks of cold butter in there, one of your ingredients was too cold.
• Add in the flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt. Mix on low until just combined. Don't over mix. (If your flour is really lumpy, sift these dry ingredients before adding them into the mixer.) The batter will be thick.
• Grease an 8"x4" loaf pan with pan release on the bottom and up the sides. I recommend using cake goop! Or you can line the bottom and sides with parchment paper to easily flip it out later.
• Place half of the batter into the greased loaf pan and smooth it out. Sprinkle the cinnamon sugar filling on top until it's completely covered. (Optional: swirl if desired.) Then place the rest of the batter on top and smooth it out with a spatula.
• Sprinkle the thick crumbs evenly on top, covering the surface of the batter.
• Bake at 350ºF for 40-50 minutes, rotating halfway through for even baking. When a toothpick comes out clean from the center, it's done!
• Make the cream cheese glaze while your cake is baking, directions below.
• Once finished baking, rest the loaf at room temperature until the pan is completely cool, about 2 hours. Do NOT flip your cake out while it's warm, it could collapse.
• Loosen the edges with a knife, place a piece of plastic wrap on top of the cake and flip upside down to remove it from the pan. Place on top of a plate or serving tray.
• Place softened cream cheese in a large bowl and blend until smooth with a hand mixer or whisk. Slowly pour in the melted butter a little at a time. Do not pour it all in at once or you could end up with a soupy cream cheese mess.
• Sift in the powdered sugar and mix until you don't see any lumps. If you don't sift you will have lumpy glaze. Add in the vanilla.
• While mixing, pour in the coffee a little at a time. Keep adding until you get the desired consistency of glaze. I like a thinner glaze so it's easy to pipe.
• Place glaze into a piping bag and drizzle on top of the loaf. You can also use a spoon or a plastic bag with the corner cut off.
• Enjoy at room temperature for up to three days. To keep it moist, store in a plastic bag or wrap with plastic wrap.

SUPER-CRUMB COFFEE CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F (177°C). Generously spray a 9-inch springform pan* with cooking spray or grease with butter. Sprinkle the bottom of the pan with 1 Tablespoon of flour and tap out the excess.
• Whisk the flour, sugar, and salt together in a large mixing bowl until combined. Cut in the butter in very small pieces using a pastry blender or mix with a fork until the mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Place 1 cup of the butter/flour mixture in the refrigerator until ready to use in step 4.
• Using a handheld or stand mixer with a paddle attachment, mix the baking powder and baking soda into the remaining flour mixture. Add the room temperature buttermilk, egg, and vanilla and beat on medium speed until smooth. The batter is very thick. Spoon the batter into the prepared springform pan, smoothing the top.
• Add the brown sugar and cinnamon to the reserved flour mixture. Toss with a fork until well blended. Sprinkle the crumbs over the batter, pressingly lightly so they stick.
• Bake the cake until the center is firm and a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean, about 45-55 minutes. Baking time varies, so begin checking at 45 minutes and don't be alarmed if your cake takes longer. Mine usually takes the full 55 minutes.
• Cool cake for 10 minutes before removing the sides of the springform pan. For neat slices and best flavor, cool cake completely at room temperature before serving.

CRUMB COFFEE CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325°F and spray an 8-inch square pan with cooking spray.
• Mix the brown sugar and flour until well combined and lump free, add the melted butter and stir well or crumble it between your hands until well blended.
• Reserve 3/4 c of the mixture for topping, if desired mix cinnamon into the topping mixture.
• Mix in the baking powder, then add the milk and egg and mix well.
• Sprinkle the reserved crumbs evenly over the top of the batter.
• Bake at 325° for about 55-60 minutes or until cake pulls slightly away from the side of the pan and a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean.
• Serve warm, even better with whipped cream, cool whip or ice-cream.

CRUMB COFFEE CAKE

Steps:

• In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar. Beat in eggs and vanilla. Combine the flour, baking powder and baking soda; add to creamed mixture alternately with sour cream. Pour half of the batter into a greased 13x9-in. baking pan. , Combine filling ingredients; sprinkle over batter. Carefully top with remaining batter. For topping, combine the flour, sugars and cinnamon in a bowl; cut in butter until crumbly. Stir in walnuts. Sprinkle over batter. , Bake at 350° for 45-50 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool on a wire rack. Combine icing ingredients; drizzle over coffee cake.

COFFEE COFFEE CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Spray and line with parchment a 9-by-9-inch baking pan; spray the parchment as well.
• For the crumb topping: In a medium bowl, mix the flour, brown sugar, cinnamon, instant coffee powder and salt. Add the melted butter and mix until crumbs form that you can clump together in your hand. Set aside.
• For the cake: In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, salt and cardamom. In a smaller bowl, whisk together the coffee and sour cream until smooth.
• In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, beat the butter and sugar together until light and fluffy. Add the eggs, one at a time, mixing until each is well combined. Then add the vanilla extract and beat until the mixture is light and fluffy.
• Starting and ending with the dry ingredients, alternate adding the flour mixture and the coffee mixture to the stand mixer; mix each addition well, scraping the bowl each additions.
• Pour the batter into the prepared baking pan and top with crumb topping, spreading it evenly. Bake for 45 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.
• Remove the cake from the oven and allow to cool for 20 to 30 minutes before cutting and serving.

OLD FASHIONED CRUMB CAKE

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.

BLUM'S COFFEE CRUNCH CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325 degrees. In a large bowl, whisk together flour, 3/4 cup sugar, baking powder, and salt. Add 3/4 cup water, oil, egg yolks, zest, and vanilla; beat until smooth.
• In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the whisk attachment, whisk egg whites on medium-high speed. With machine running, add remaining 3/4 cup sugar in a slow steady stream, beating until incorporated and stiff glossy peaks form.
• Remove bowl from mixer. Gently but thoroughly, fold beaten egg whites into batter, in two additions. Pour batter into a 10-inch tube pan. Bake until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean, about 1 hour. Remove from oven, and invert onto a narrow necked bottle if your pan doesn't have feet. Let stand until cool, about 1 hour, before removing pan.
• Place cake on a serving platter. Cover cake with an even layer of frosting. Just before serving, sprinkle top and sides of cake generously with coffee crunch.

CANDIE'S BAKERY-STYLE CRUMB COFFEE CAKE

Steps:

• Mix together in a large bowl flour, sugar, baking powder, salt; and set aside 2 cups of this mixture for the topping.
• Add butter, eggs and milk and mix well.
• Grease and flour a 13-inch rectangle baking pan.
• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• For Topping: Take the 2 cups of reserved flour mixture and add to the butter, brown sugar, cinnamon and salt.
• Mix together with your fingers until blended and lumps begin to form when you squeeze the mixture making small pea-sized crumbs.
• (make them to your liking).
• We love HUGE crumbs on ours, so I squeeze handfuls of the mixture and let the big pieces drop off onto the cake batter and cover the surface with smaller ones as I empty the bowl.
• Cover the entire cake with crumbly mixture.
• Bake for 30 minutes.
• When cooled, dust with confectioner's sugar.