Cranberry Sauce Crumb Cake

Ingredients:

for the cake:

1/2 loving cup lite brownish saccharide
half dozen tablespoons butter, at room temperature
i teaspoon vanilla
i egg, at room temperature
2 cups flour
i tablespoon baking powder
pinch salt
3/4 loving cup milk, at room temperature
i loving cup whole berry cranberry sauce (I used this apple-cranberry sauce)

for the crumb topping:

1/2 loving cup lite brownish sugar
1/4 loving cup sugar
i tablespoon dry reason cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon allspice
pinch nutmeg
pinch salt
i 1/4 loving cup flour
1/2 loving cup butter, melted too cooled slightly



Directions:

Preheat oven to 350. Butter too flour an 8x8 inch pan. Set aside.


for the cake:

In a large bowl or inwards the bowl of a stand upwardly mixer, cream the saccharide too butter amongst an electrical mixer. Beat inwards the egg too vanilla. Whisk the flour, baking pulverisation too tabular array salt together inwards a small-scale bowl. With the mixer on depression add together the flour too milk alternately to the butter mixture, stopping amongst flour. Spoon the batter into the prepared pan. Smooth amongst the dorsum of a spoon to cast an fifty-fifty layer. Spread the cranberry sauce over the batter inwards an fifty-fifty layer. Set aside.

for the crumb topping:

In a small-scale bowl, whisk together the sugars, cinnamon, allspice, nutmeg, salt, too flour. Pour inwards the butter too role a fork to coat the mixture inwards butter, leaving large crumbs unbroken. Sprinkle evenly over the cake. You may cause got some crumb mixture leftover. Bake i threescore minutes or until a toothpick inwards the middle comes out amongst only a few moist crumbs. Cool completely on a wire rack earlier serving.

My thoughts:

My hubby is from NYC where crumb topped cakes dominion supreme. The to a greater extent than crumbs the better! Crumb cakes too java cakes are closely related but aren't e'er the same thing. Crumb cake e'er has a crumb topping piece java cakes (cakes made to consume amongst coffee, non coffee-flavored cakes) may or may cause got a crumb topping. Don't confuse them amongst New Bailiwick of Jersey crumb buns (which nosotros run across inwards bakeries some Baltimore too) which cause got a crumb topping but a yeast based cake base.

 The best New York-style crumb cake has a tender cake but real crunchy topping. This cake has both too a surprise ingredient: cranberry sauce! My hubby is also a large fan of cranberry sauce too nosotros become inwards a fair amount when cranberries are inwards flavor but since nosotros are solely ii people, nosotros terminate upwardly amongst a bunch leftover. Why non combine the two?

For this recipe, I created a sweet, vanilla-based cake thence topped it amongst cinnamon apple-cranberry sauce too a spiced crumb topping. It actually takes a classic crumb cake to a novel holiday-worthy level. This would move amazing served on Christmas morning. Or the twenty-four hours afterwards to role upwardly some cranberry sauce! 

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