Apple Crumb Cake – A super moist butter cake topped with apples and cinnamon crumbs, a perfect fall coffee cake that is fit for a crowd. You will leave the guests raving.
I choose to make this recipe when I want to feed a crowd and not just for home. It makes a great crowd pleasing coffee cake or to serve as dessert with ice cream.
What to serve with Apple crumb cake?
A simple dust of icing sugar is enough if you are serving the cake with morning coffee or afternoon tea.
To serve as a dessert, you can drizzle a vanilla glaze, pair with vanilla ice cream or simple whipping cream.
Recipe at glance
Crumb ingredients Crumb Topping Apple Layer Cake Ingredients Cream butter and sugar Add Eggs Prepared Batter Assembling After apple layer Assembled Cake
FAQs
I always use Gala for all my baking recipes with apple and I do not even core it. Turns out perfect every time.
Crumb Cake topping is made from butter, brown sugar and flour. Cinnamon and salt are added for the flavor dimension.
Strawberries or blueberries can be a perfect replacement.
Crumb Cake has significantly thicker layer of streusel or crumb topping than coffee cake.
Coffee cake has sometimes crumb layer in between also.
Crumb cake is said to have originated in Germany and is also called Streusel cake which means a cake covered in crumb topping.
Apple Crumb Cake Recipe
Moist Apple Crumb Cake - Fit to a feed a crowd
Ingredients
- 10 tablespoons or 3/4 cup soft butter
- 1 cup grinded sugar
- 3 eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 2 1/2 cups flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 1/4 cup sour cream/drained yogurt
Apple Layer
- 2-3 cored and chopped apples
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
Crumb topping
- 1 1/2 cups flour
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon powder
- 3/4 teaspoon salt
- 3/4 tablespoons butter
Instructions
- For the Crumb Topping
- In a large bowl, whisk flour, salt, cinnamon powder and salt.
- Rub in butter to resemble crumbs with finger tips.
- Refrigerate while you make cake.
For the Apple layer
- Mix lemon with apples and toss well.
For the Cake
- Prepare a 9x13 pan, line with parchment paper and grease.
- Cream butter and sugar using an electric mixer.
- Add in eggs one at a time.
- Add vanilla.
- Sift flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt together.
- Add 1/3 of dry ingredients and 1/2 yogurt/sour cream, beat.
- Repeat step 5.
- Add remaining dry ingredients and beat.
- Spread the mixture in the prepared pan.
- Top with apple mixture.
- Finish with crumb topping
- Bake in a pre-heated oven at 325 F for 45 minutes until golden brown and tester comes out clean in the middle.
- Cool and serve.
Storage Instructions
This cake is baked in 9×13 pan preferably aluminum pan.
It however gets a little tricky because of crumb fallout if you invert the cake and try to serve on the platter.
Use a casserole or glass dish but since it conducts heat rapidly, cakes baked in a glass dish tends to be drier.
You can store the cake at room temperature for a day and refrigerate it in a box for up to 3 days.
You might also like this easy coffee cake
or one bowl banana cake recipe.
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