Grandmas Crumb Cake Or Cupcakes Recipes

Steps:

• 1. Pre-heat oven to 350°F. Coat a 13-x-9-inch oblong baking pan with nonstick cooking spray.
• 2. With pastry knife or fingers, cut butter into flour and sugar until crumbly. Reserve 1/2 cup for topping.
• 3. Add remaining ingredients to flour mixture and stir until just mixed.
• 4. Pour batter into prepared baking pan and top with reserved crumbs.
• 5. Bake 20-25 minutes. Cool on wire rack.
• 6. NOTE: To make cupcakes, line 15 muffin tins or cupcake tins with paper cupcake liners, or use nonstick cooking spray. Fill cupcake liners 2/3 full and sprinkle reserved crumb mixture evenly over tops. Bake as above.

Steps:

• Pre-heat oven to 350°F.
• Line muffin tins or cupcake tins with paper cupcake liners.
• With pastry knife or fingers, cut butter into flour and sugar until crumbly. Reserve 1/2 cup for topping.
• Add remaining ingredients to flour mixture and stir until just mixed.
• Fill cupcake liners 2/3 full and sprinkle reserved crumb mixture evenly over tops.
• Bake 20-25 minutes.
• Cool on wire rack.
• To make a cake, pour batter into a greased and floured oblong baking pan and top with reserved crumbs. Bake as above.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
• You will need two muffin pans that hold 12 muffins each. Lightly spray with cooking spray.
• In a large mixing bowl, beat together the butter and sugar. Add the vanilla and eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition.
• Combine the flour and baking powder together in a bowl and add to the butter, sugar, and egg mixture. Mix on low speed until well blended-the batter will be very thick.
• Divide the batter evenly among the 24 cups. This will fill them about half way.
• For the topping, mix together the flour, brown sugar, and cinnamon in a bowl.
• Add the hard butter and cut it in to the dry ingredients until it resembles coarse crumbs-you can use your hands for this, rubbing it between your fingertips. Don't make it too fine, you want it to have some body to it. Note: I use my hand held pastry blender tool.
• Put about 1 tablespoon of the streusel topping over each cake using up all of the topping;you will not see much of the batter.
• Bake in a preheated oven on two shelves for about 18 minutes, switching shelves after the first 10 minutes.
• They are done when a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean. Do not overbake;start checking them at about 16 minutes.
• Cool 5 minutes in the pans then remove to a cooling rack.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Lightly grease a 7x11 inch baking pan or casserole dish.
• Combine sugar, flour and butter. Use a fork to cut butter in until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Set aside 1/2 cup of this mixture to use as topping.
• To the remaining flour mixture, add cinnamon, cloves, baking soda and salt. Lightly stir in the buttermilk and egg. Pour batter into prepared pan. Sprinkle cake with reserved topping.
• Bake in preheated oven for 25 minutes, until a toothpick inserted into center of the cake comes out clean.

Steps:

• Combine flour, sugar, salt, cinnamon and baking powder.
• Cut in shortening, reserve 1/2 cup; set aside.
• Place beaten egg in a measuring cup and add enough milk to equal one cup.
• Add vanilla and combine with flour mixture, mix well.
• Pour into a greased 8 x 8 pan.
• Sprinkle with reserved dry mixture.
• Dot with butter, sprinkle with sugar and cinnamon.
• Bake 25 minutes at 375°.