Apple Crumb Cake
Classic crumb coffee cake meets apples.
Ingredients
for the cake:
- 1 1/2 cups light brown sugar
- 1/3 cup canola oil
- 2 eggs
- 1 cup buttermilk
- 2 teaspoons vanilla
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 2 1/2 cups flour
- 1 teaspoon allspice
- pinch salt
- 2 cups grated apples I used Fuji, peel-on
for the streusel topping:
- 8 tablespoons butter, melted
- 1 cup flour
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1/2 cup light brown sugar
- 1 tablespoon ground ginger
- 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cardamon
- 1/4 teaspoon mace
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350. Butter and flour a 13 X 9 inch pan. Set aside.
- In a large bowl or bowl of a stand mixer, mix together the brown sugar, oil, egg until smooth. Add buttermilk and vanilla and mix until smooth. Beat in baking soda, flour and spices until a batter forms. Fold in apples.
- Pour into prepared pan, set aside.
- In a medium bowl, stir together the topping ingredients until it looks like wet, coarse sand. Sprinkle evenly over batter.
- Bake 45 minutes or until a thin knife inserted in the middle comes out with 1-2 moist crumbs.
- Cool on wire rack.