Lemon Sugar Crumb Cake
Lemon Crumb Cake is a simple coffee cake with a fresh lemony flavor just made for a cup of coffee or tea!
Servings: 12
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Equipment
- full sized food processor
- 9x9 baking pan
Ingredients
- 1 lemon, organic preferred, well washed and dried
- 1 3/4 cups granulated sugar
- 2 1/2 cups all purpose flour
- 1 Tbsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 2/3 cup cold unsalted butter cut in small pieces
wet ingredients
- 2/3 cup milk
- 2 large eggs
- 1/4 cup sour cream
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
Instructions
- preheat oven to 325. Spray a 9x9 square baking pan and line with parchment paper if you want to be able to lift it out for cutting. This is optional.
- Use a serrated vegetable peeler to carefully peel away the zest from the lemon. You want only the yellow, not any of the bitter white pith.
- Put the sugar into the bowl of a food processor, along with the zest. Process, scraping down the sides if necessary, for about a minute or so, until the zest is completely incorporated into the sugar.
- Add the flour, baking powder, and salt into the processor and pulse to combine everything.
- Add the butter to the bowl. Pulse to combine, maybe about 20 pulses. The mixture should be crumbly with the butter well distributed and in very small pieces.
- Measure out 1 cup of the mixture and set aside.
- Whisk together the wet ingredients and add to the dry, mixing just until combined. Spread the batter into the pan, and top with the reserved crumbs. Note: I use my fingertips to make some larger, chunkier crumbs to create a nice texture on the top. Just compress the dry mixture a little between your fingers to make any size crumb you like.
- Bake for about 40 minutes, until a toothpick comes out without wet batter clinging to it, moist crumbs are fine.
Notes
- I like to use organic lemons when I know I'll be using the peel, and I wash them really well.
- If you don't have a food processor you can do this by hand. Grate the lemon zest and mix with the sugar. I would use the zest of 2 lemons if you are doing it by hand.
Nutrition
Serving: 1 piece · Calories: 328 kcal · Carbohydrates: 50 g · Protein: 4 g · Fat: 13 g · Saturated Fat: 7 g · Polyunsaturated Fat: 1 g · Monounsaturated Fat: 3 g · Trans Fat: 0.4 g · Cholesterol: 59 mg · Sodium: 197 mg · Potassium: 169 mg · Fiber: 1 g · Sugar: 30 g · Vitamin A: 407 IU · Vitamin C: 0.04 mg · Calcium: 76 mg · Iron: 1 mg
Nutritional information is provided as a courtesy and is an estimate only. This information comes from online calculators. Although The View from Great Island attempts to provide accurate nutritional information, these figures are only estimates.
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