Pumpkin Crumb Cake

This Pumpkin Crumb Cake is the last word fall dessert with a superbly dense, moist pumpkin cake and a beneficiant layer of melt-in-your-mouth pumpkin spice streusel. It’s the sort of cake that has everybody scraping their plates clear to get each final crumb! And all of it comes collectively utilizing primary baking staples, a few bowls, and a whisk.

Need extra pumpkin desserts? Strive our Pumpkin Cheesecake Thumbprint Cookies or our Easy Pumpkin Bars.

Why Our Recipe

A dense, moist pumpkin cake with a tasty pumpkin spice streusel topping that can have you ever scraping up each chunk from the plate.
Simple to make with primary baking staples and a bit pumpkin puree.
The ending glaze makes it temptingly fairly!

A plate of slices of pumpkin crumb cake.

In our opinion, the most effective issues about fall is all of the seasonal desserts. This pumpkin crumb cake is bound to change into considered one of your fall favorites. It’s additionally actually fairly too so it’s nice for a brunch, get collectively, guide membership, or only a common after dinner dessert. You’ll be able to even make it forward of time, and belief us—it tastes even higher the following day!

Ingredient Notes

An overhead view of the ingredients needed to make pumpkin crumb cake.

Pumpkin Puree: Make sure you use plain pumpkin puree, not pumpkin pie filling. Two completely various things!
Salted Butter: This recipe makes use of melted salted butter in each the cake and streusel. For those who’re utilizing unsalted butter, add an additional pinch of salt.
Sugars: The mix of each sugars provides sweetness and depth of taste. You need to use both darkish or mild brown sugar.
Eggs: Room temperature eggs mix extra simply into the batter, making a smoother texture. In case your eggs are chilly, you possibly can place them in heat water for 5-10 minutes earlier than utilizing.
Bitter Cream: For those who don’t have bitter cream, plain Greek yogurt works as a 1:1 substitute.
All-Objective Flour: The bottom for each the cake and the streusel. Customers have reported that gluten-free blends designed to be a direct substitute do work on this recipe.
Pumpkin Pie Spice: For those who don’t have a pre-made mix, you can also make your personal utilizing 1 teaspoon cinnamon, 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg, 1/4 teaspoon ginger, and a pinch of cloves.
Milk: You’ll want just some tablespoons to skinny out the glaze. You can too simply use water, however milk provides a bit fats that makes the icing a bit thicker and balanced, slightly than only a straight sugar.

Variations

Nutty Streusel: For additional crunch and taste, add 1/2 cup of chopped nuts like pecans or walnuts to the streusel topping. The nuts will toast because the cake bakes and add a bit crunch.

Maple Glaze: Layer on one other fall taste with maple! Take the glaze to the following stage by including 1/2 teaspoon of maple extract. Simply whisk the maple extract into the glaze with the milk, and drizzle it over the cooled cake for a tasty twist.

A stack of slices of pumpkin crumb cake sitting in front of the rest of the pan of cake.

Serving Ideas

We suggest slicing this cake into 9 slices for the standard serving measurement. You can too make this into bite-size finger meals by slicing right into a 4×4 grid supplying you with 16 slices. It might be troublesome to go a lot smaller.

Brunch: This Pumpkin Crumb Cake is ideal for serving with a sizzling cup of espresso or tea. That’s the place the time period espresso cake comes from!

Dessert: Serve topped with a dollop of whipped cream (freshly whipped is our desire) or serve with a scoop of vanilla or caramel ice cream.

Storage Directions

Retailer the cake in an hermetic container at room temperature for as much as 3 days. For greatest outcomes, wait so as to add the glaze till simply earlier than serving if storing for greater than a day.

This cake freezes nicely with out the glaze. As soon as it’s absolutely cooled, wrap particular person slices or the entire cake tightly in plastic wrap, then in aluminum foil. Retailer within the freezer for as much as 3 months. When able to get pleasure from, thaw within the fridge in a single day and glaze simply earlier than serving.