Crumb Cake

Submitted by DeeBee

"This will be the last crumb cake recipe you'll ever need. It's wonderful. It's my friend Fran's mother's recipe. It's far from low fat and I guess that's what makes it such a delicious cake. Everyone will ask you for the recipe."

 

• Ready In: 50mins
• Ingredients: 9
• Yields: 1 large crumb cake

ingredients

• Cake

• 517.37 g box butter recipe cake mix
• 59.14 ml butter, softened
• 4 large eggs
• 236.59 ml water

• Crumb Topping

• 354.88 ml butter (VERY SOFT-almost melted)
• 709.77 ml flour
• 236.59 ml sugar
• 14.78 ml vanilla
• 14.78 ml cinnamon

directions

1. Grease and flour a cookie sheet with sides (11 x 17 or 10 1/2 x 15) just watch the time.
2. Mix cake using above ingredients.
3. Spread in cookie sheet.
4. Bake 350° for 20 minutes (20 minutes is the time for the 10 1/2 x 15 pan), so a little less time if you are using the bigger pan.
5. I like the 11 x 17 pan.
6. Crumbs: Add ingredients to bowl and mix together.
7. Spread in chunks covering cake.
8. Bake 15 minutes more.
9. Cool.
10. Sprinkle with powdered sugar.

Reviews

[Lilladyc]

Let me be the first to say people will want the recipe! I have lots of neighbors who drop in all the time, and are welcome to whatever I have cooked or am cooking. I have already printed this recipe four times since I made it yesterday, and am just now posting my review. I followed the recipe exactly from start to finish. Delicious! Try it, you'll like it!

 

[Ellen R.]

I had to look twice-- you're supposed to use a *cookie sheet*, not a cake pan. That's why the sizes of the pans are 'unusual.' 11x17 is a standard sized cookie sheet and both 11x17 and 10.5x15 are readily available in stores, and probably are the sizes you've got in your house. Just make sure it has a lip, and isn't one of the completely flat cookie sheets, obviously. I accidentally used a standard Betty Crocker yellow cake mix, which is not the same size as the butter cake mix suggested in the ingredients. I added some flour to make up for it. I also added a little vanilla and cinnamon to the cake batter before baking. The crumb topping does seem like a lot when you're mixing it up at first, but as you start putting it on the hot cake, the butter and sugar start to melt a bit, and it turned out absolutely perfect for my 11x17 cookie sheet. Not only did this smell fantastic, but it tasted absolutely great. Quick, easy, painless.

 

[hannahactually]

This is unbelievably delicious for such an easy cake to prepare! My whole family adored it; my little brother had three pieces! I loved that it used cake mix because that made it so much simpler. I realized after getting home from the grocery store that I was out of butter cake mix, so I used yellow cake mix. After reading others' reviews, I added two teaspoons of cinnamon to the cake mix before baking, along with a teaspoon or so of vanilla. Then, I added an extra teaspoon of cinnamon to the crumb topping. This intensified the cinnamon flavor but was definitely not too much. I served it sprinkled with confectioner's sugar, as suggested, but also topped with Cool Whip! Talk about delicious and decadent! Thanks so much for sharing this great recipe.

 

[fredo]

Sorry but anything that starts out with boxed cake mix, is NOT a recipe!

 

[pameyw_8215553]

Made this in a 9” x 13” pan and 2/3 the topping. It was great!