Candie's Bakery-Style Crumb Coffee Cake

On Saturday morning my Dad would rise early, go for the paper and stop in the bakery for our weekend treats. He would bring home crumb cake because it was Mom's favorite (we didn't turn our nose up either). As he travelled home, some crumbs would fall to the bottom of the box and Mom would spoon them out and right onto her plate. She'd say she could eat a box of crumbs! This crumb coffee cake is simple, but it's the crumbs that make it wonderful! I hope you'll try it and make you own memories.

• Ready In: 40 mins
• Serves: 8

Ingredients

• 3 3⁄4 cups flour
• 1 3⁄4 cups sugar
• 1⁄4 lb butter (softened)
• 3  teaspoons baking powder
• 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
• 2  eggs
• 1⁄2-2⁄3 cup milk

• Topping

• 1⁄4 lb butter
• 1⁄4 cup brown sugar
• 2  teaspoons cinnamon
• 1  pinch salt
•  confectioners' sugar (for dusting)

Directions

1. Mix together in a large bowl flour, sugar, baking powder, salt; and set aside 2 cups of this mixture for the topping.
2. Add butter, eggs and milk and mix well.
3. Grease and flour a 13-inch rectangle baking pan.
4. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
5. For Topping: Take the 2 cups of reserved flour mixture and add to the butter, brown sugar, cinnamon and salt.
6. Mix together with your fingers until blended and lumps begin to form when you squeeze the mixture making small pea-sized crumbs.
7. (make them to your liking).
8. 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.
9. Cover the entire cake with crumbly mixture.
10. Bake for 30 minutes.
11. When cooled, dust with confectioner's sugar.