None of them are nearly as good as this one, including the yeast-based one from Smitten Kitchen Every Day, which was sadly rather bland (5.5/10) and the America's Test Kitchen version that calls for cake flour in the topping to prevent the crumb from sinking (the crumb still sank and it didn't have the same satisfying sugary crunch (7/10 for the topping)). I've tried multiple other recipes for "double crumb cake", "New York crumb cake", and "New Jersey crumb cake".I made Baked's crumb cake for our crumb cake bake-off at work and it was the winner by a huge margin. Caleb rates the Track 5 crumb cake a solid 10/10 and this one an 8/10.Crumb cake does not contain nuts in the topping and there is no inner swirl like there is in a coffee cake.New York-style crumb cake is so named because it contains massive crumbs at a virtually 1:1 ratio of crumb:cake.Happily, it turns out my trusty collection of Baked cookbooks contained one New-York style crumb cake recipe within Baked Explorations, so that's where I started my attempt to beat Track 5's vanilla crumb cake. I searched my EatYourBooks library - I love that service, it makes finding recipes I might want to make so much faster than picking up books at random. Obviously, I had to try and prove him wrong. Caleb raved about how much he liked it and commented that A) I'd never made him crumb cake and B) it would be nigh impossible to beat Track 5's crumb cake. Track 5 coffee had my very favorite cappuccinos, amazing bear claws, stellar mini quiches, as well as a fantastic vanilla crumb cake. I've eaten a lot of bites of bad crumb cake, but I hadn't encountered great crumb cake until I moved to New Jersey. Growing up, I didn't have much exposure to crumb cake outside of supermarket Entenmann's.
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