Cardamom-Spiced Crumb Cake
- Ready In:
- 1hr 30mins
- Ingredients:
- 19
- Serves:
-
15
ingredients
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CRUMB TOPPING
- 2 cups pecans
- 1 cup unsalted butter, melted
- 3⁄4 cup light brown sugar
- 1⁄2 cup granulated sugar
- 1⁄2 teaspoon ground cardamom
- 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
- 2 2⁄3 cups all-purpose flour
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CAKE
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 1⁄4 cups sugar
- 1 1⁄2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 2 large eggs
- 1 cup whole milk
- 3⁄4 cup unsalted butter, melted
- 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
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GLAZE
- 1⁄2 cup confectioners' sugar
- 2 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted
- 2 teaspoons whole milk
- 1⁄2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
directions
- Preheat the oven to 350°F Position a rack in the center of the oven. Butter a 9-by-13-inch metal baking pan.
- Make the crumb topping: Spread the pecans on a rimmed baking sheet and toast for 8 minutes, until browned. Let cool, then coarsely chop the nuts.
- In a medium bowl, stir the melted butter with both sugars, the cardamom and salt.
- Add the flour and stir until clumpy.
- Stir in the chopped nuts.
- Make the cake: In a large bowl, whisk the flour with the sugar, baking powder and salt.
- In a medium bowl, whisk the eggs with the milk, melted butter and vanilla.
- Add the egg mixture to the dry ingredients and stir until just combined.
- Scrape the batter into the prepared baking pan, smoothing the surface.
- Scatter the crumbs in large clumps over the cake; the crumb layer will be quite deep.
- Bake for about 55 minutes, until the crumbs are golden and firm and a tester inserted in the center of the cake comes out clean. If the crumbs brown before the cake is done, cover the cake loosely with foil.
- Transfer to a rack to cool.
- Make the glaze: In a bowl, whisk all of the glaze ingredients together. Drizzle the glaze over the cake; let cool slightly.
- Serve warm or at room temperature.
- The cake can be kept covered at room temperature for up to 3 days.
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Vino Girl
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My husband and I married straight out of college in July of 1992. I work as the Assistant Manager at a wine shop which allows me to drink on the job! (OK, not that much, but it's still a fun job...) Besides helping customers choose wine they will like (and also help with food and wine pairings for their menus), I also get to help with the catering end of the business, so I get to spend a fair amount of time in the kitchen making fun appetizers and beautiful food displays. I also work part-time at the fromagerie next door. So yeah - that means I eat on the job, too. :^D
We live on several peaceful wooded acres on a cute little river in rural NE Wisconsin, with a cranky old-lady Burmese and whatever stray outdoor cats that have decided to adopt us on any given day. The cute puppy in the picture is Jake, our Elhew-bred English Pointer that we brought home on Easter weekend 2007. I've also got 2 painted turtles named Dennis and Fuzz, and a bunch of fish (koi and goldfish, along with the guppies & swordtails in the turtle tank).
I USUALLY eat and cook healthy, but I rarely pass up dessert, either. I do not eat red meat, and try to limit other animal products, too. I love to bake, although I seem to collect a lot of scone and biscotti recipes which I NEVER get around to making. I bake and eat A LOT of cookies and muffins... I almost always reduce the sugar by 1/4 and use whole wheat pastry flour for at least part of the flour. Those two changes do so much to make recipes healthier without compromising taste. I try to reduce fat whenever I can, too, but while I want to eat healthy, I still want to ENJOY what I eat!!!
I seem to give a lot of 4 and 5 star reviews here - I seem to have a pretty good sense of what I like by looking at a recipe before I try it. Thank you to anyone that tries my recipes in return, or photographs them.
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