Pumpkin Crumb Cake
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Adopted by Yossy Arefi (NY Times Cooking) Add a twist of lavender by grinding ¼ teaspoon into the pumpkin spice blend
Author: Paola Legarre
Recipe type: Dessert
Cuisine: American
Serves: One 8 to 9 inch round cake
Ingredients
- FOR THE STREUSEL
- ½ (packed) cup/100 grams light brown sugar
- ½ cup/64 grams all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon homemade pumpkin spice blend
- Pinch of salt
- ¼cup/56 grams unsalted butter, cold and cut into cubes
- PUMPKIN SPICE BLEND
- Blend by combining
- 2 tablespoons ground cinnamon
- 1 tablespoon ground ginger
- 1 teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg
- 1 teaspoon ground cardamom
- ½ teaspoon ground allspice
- ¼ teaspoon ground cloves.
- ¼ teaspoon Miss. Katherine or Melissa lavender buds ground (optional)
- Makes about ¼ cup.
- FOR THE PUMPKIN CAKE
- Nonstick cooking spray
- 1(packed) cup/200 grams light brown sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 1 cup/230 grams canned pumpkin purée or homemade pureed cooked pumpkin
- ¼cup/56 grams unsalted butter, melted
- ¼cup neutral oil
- 1 tablespoon store-bought or homemade pumpkin spice blend (see Tip)
- ½ teaspoon fine sea salt
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- 1½ cups/190 grams all-purpose flour
- FOR THE GLAZE
- ¾ cup/75 grams confectioners’ sugar
- ¾ teaspoon pumpkin spice blend
- Pinch of salt
- 3 to 5 teaspoons milk (any kind will do)
Directions
- Place a rack in the center of the oven and heat oven to 350 degrees. Spray an 8-inch square or 9-inch round baking pan with cooking spray and line with parchment paper.
- Make the streusel: In a small bowl, combine the sugar, flour, pumpkin spice and salt. Add the butter, then pinch the butter into the flour mixture with your fingertips until the mixture forms pebble-size crumbs and is evenly moistened.
- Make the cake: In a large bowl, whisk the sugar and eggs until pale and foamy, about 1 minute. Add the pumpkin purée, melted butter, oil, pumpkin spice and salt; whisk until combined and smooth. Whisk in the baking powder and baking soda, then whisk in the flour.
- Transfer the batter to the prepared pan, smooth the top and tap on the counter a few times to release any large air bubbles. Sprinkle the streusel evenly over the top.
- Bake the cake until puffed and golden, and a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, 40 to 45 minutes. Set the cake in the pan on a rack to cool. After about 15 minutes remove the cake from the pan and set it on the rack to cool almost completely.
- When the cake is just slightly warm, make the glaze, if using: Add the confectioners’ sugar, pumpkin spice, pinch of salt and 3 teaspoons of milk to a bowl. Whisk until smooth, adding a bit more milk as necessary to form a glaze that is very thick but can be drizzled.
- Drizzle the glaze over the top of the cake.