New York-Style Crumb Cake

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated May/June 2007, America's Test Kitchen TV

We wanted to bring this New York classic home—but not from the supermarket.

SERVES 9

TIME 1¼ hours, plus 30 minutes cooling

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WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

Since an authentic New York crumb cake recipe should have rich dough topped with thick chunks of lightly spiced crumb topping, we tweaked our favorite yellow cake batter to use in our crumb cake recipe. For a proper crumb topping, we made l...

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