New York-Style Crumb Cake

Name: New York-Style Crumb Cake
Yield: Serves 9
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 8 tablespoons, unsalted butter (1 stick), melted and still warm; 1/3 cup, granulated sugar (2 2/3 ounces); 1/3 cup, dark brown sugar (2 2/3 ounces); 3/4 teaspoon, ground cinnamon; 1/8 teaspoon, table salt; 1 3/4 cups, cake flour (7 ounces); 1 1/4 cups, cake flour (5 ounces); 1/2 cup, granulated sugar (3 1/2 ounces); 1/4 teaspoon, baking soda; 1/4 teaspoon, table salt; 6 tablespoons, unsalted butter (3/4 stick), cut into 6 pieces, softened but still cool; 1 , large egg; 1 , large egg yolk; 1 teaspoon, vanilla extract; 1/3 cup, buttermilk; , Confectioners' sugar for dusting

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated May/June 2007, America's Test Kitchen TV

Desserts or Baked Goods

American

Breakfast & Brunch

Cakes

We wanted to bring this New York classic home—but not from the supermarket.

SERVES9

TIME1¼ hours, plus 30 minutes cooling

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WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

Since an authentic New York crumb cake recipe should have rich dough topped with thick chunks of lightly spiced crumb topping, we tweaked our favorite yellow cake batter to use in our crumb cake recipe. For a proper crumb topping, we made l...

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