Pecan Crumb Cake Recipes

PECAN CRUMB CAKE

Steps:

• Mix together 1/2 cup butter, chopped pecans, crushed vanilla wafers, and 1/3 cup sugar.
• Pat mixture on the bottom and sides of 2 greased loaf pans.
• Cream remaining butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
• Add eggs and beat well.
• Mix milk and vanilla and add to batter alternately with sifted dry ingredients, starting and ending with dry ingredients.
• Pour into 2 prepared loaf pans and bake at 350 degrees until cake test done in the middle.
• Turn out on cake racks to cool immediately.

CRANBERRY SOUR CREAM COFFEE CAKE WITH PECAN CRUMB TOPPING

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and lightly flour a 9x13-inch baking pan.
• Combine brown sugar, white sugar, flour, cinnamon, and salt for crumb topping in a medium bowl and toss lightly with a fork.
• Grate the butter into the flour mixture using the largest side of a box grater. Combine with a fork or pastry knife until ingredients are combined and have the appearance of very coarse meal; the pieces should be loose and not sticking together. Stir in pecans and set topping aside.
• Combine flour, baking powder, and salt for cake in a large bowl.
• Combine butter, white sugar, and brown sugar in the bowl of an electric stand mixer. Beat on medium speed until light and fluffy, about 2 minutes. Add sour cream, eggs, and vanilla extract and mix, scraping the bowl as needed, for 1 minute. Add flour mixture on low speed in thirds, alternating with milk, ending with the flour mixture. Mix until just smooth. Stir in cranberries with a spoon.
• Spread batter into the prepared baking pan and sprinkle topping evenly over the batter.
• Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean, about 55 minutes. Cool in the pan on a wire rack for about 10 minutes. Serve warm.

CHOCOLATE-CHIP PECAN CRUMB COFFEE CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°.
• Butter and flour a 13x9 inch baking pan.
• The topping: combine the butter, brown sugar, and pumpkin pie spice in a big bowl.
• With 2 knives, cut in the butter.
• Add in the flour and pecans; using your fingers, blend the flour and butter together to make large crumblike pieces.
• Add in the chocolate chips and quickly work them into the topping.
• The cake: sift the flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, and pumpkin pie spice onto a large sheet of wax paper.
• In a mixing bowl, beat the butter with an electric mixer on medium speed until light and fluffy.
• Gradually add the sugars, continuing to beat until very light.
• Add the eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition.
• With the mixer on low speed, alternately beat in the flour mixture and the buttermilk, beating until the batter is just mixed.
• Add in the vanilla and mix.
• Spread the batter evenly in the prepared pan.
• Evenly sprinkle with the crumb topping, pressing it gently into the batter.
• Bake 40-45 minutes, or until the top of the cake is firm and the streusel is crisp and bubbling.
• A pick inserted into the center should come out clean.
• Let cool slightly in the pan on a wire rack.
• Serve warm, cut into squares.