Salted Caramel Crumb Cake
Prep
20 mins
Cook
35 mins
Servings
8
Difficulty
Easy
Moist cake filled with salted caramel and crunchy crumb topping.
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Ingredients
- 300 gall-purpose flour
- 200 ggranulated sugar
- 100 gbrown sugar
- 200 gunsalted butter
- 2 egglarge eggs
- 1 mLvanilla extract
- 5 gsalt
- 50 gcocoa powder
- 10 gbaking powder
- crumb topping ingredients (see below)
- salted caramel ingredients (see below)
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Instructions
- 1
Preheat the oven to 180°C. Line a 23cm round cake pan with parchment paper.
- 2
Combine the flour, sugar, brown sugar, and cocoa powder in a bowl.
- 3
Add the butter and mix until the mixture resembles coarse crumbs.
- 4
Add the eggs one at a time, mixing well after each addition.
Tip: Don't overmix.
- 5
Pour in the vanilla extract and mix until combined.
- 6
Pour half of the cake batter into the prepared cake pan.
- 7
Prepare the crumb topping by combining the flour, sugar, and butter in a bowl.
- 8
Add the salt and mix until the crumb topping resembles coarse crumbs.
- 9
Sprinkle the crumb topping evenly over the cake batter.
- 10
Pour the remaining cake batter over the crumb topping.
- 11
Bake for 25-30 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
Tip: Prepare the salted caramel by heating the butter, sugar, and salt in a saucepan over low heat until the sugar dissolves.
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