146 crumb cake recipes

Lighter cocoa brownies sweetened with liquid sweetener and applesauce instead of excess sugar, delivering chocolate satisfaction with a tender cake-like crumb.

Golden brown coffee cake is a buttermilk bundt with a brown sugar and walnut crumb layer running through the middle and crowning the top. Tender crumb, caramel notes, breakfast-table classic.

The delicious crumb topping makes these muffins taste like miniature coffee cakes. Good at tea time and also for brunch. Cool at least 1 hour before serving.

Lemon poppy seed pound cake with buttermilk crumb and fresh lemon zest, finished with tangy lemon glaze. Tender Bundt or loaf for tea and brunch.

Chocolate mayonnaise loaf cake is a Depression-era American classic with an unbelievably moist crumb. The mayo (which is just eggs and oil) replaces butter and eggs in this fudgy 8-ingredient bake.

Libby's pumpkin pound cake is a dense, buttery loaf with canned pumpkin folded into a classic creamed-butter batter. No spice rack required, just clean pumpkin flavor in a tender crumb that holds up to a sugar glaze.

Banana chocolate bundt cake with mashed ripe bananas and Dutch-process cocoa for deep, fudgy flavor. Sour cream keeps the crumb tender. Bakes in a 12-cup bundt for a striking, fluted finish.

Tender, bakery-style scones made with cake flour for a light crumb. The sticky dough scoops straight onto the pan, no rolling or cutting, and bakes right from frozen, so you can stash a batch and bake fresh whenever the kettle's on.

This two-layer banana cake with buttermilk and chopped pecans bakes up incredibly moist and tender. Made with cake flour for a fine, soft crumb, it's the kind of from-scratch banana cake that wins blue ribbons.

Cotton Cake: a vintage chocolate layer cake where mashed potato keeps the crumb cloud-tender, layered with marshmallow filling and a cloud of foaming icing on top.

Old-fashioned chocolate layer cake leavened with both yeast and baking powder, plus stiffly whipped egg whites folded in for an unusually tall, tender, almost spongy crumb. Made with unsweetened chocolate and cake flour.

Grandma's chocolate layer cake: a classic two-layer butter cake with melted chocolate and a tender crumb. An old-fashioned scratch cake for birthdays and celebrations.

Pineapple banana walnut tube cake with cinnamon and a fresh pineapple icing. Crushed canned pineapple keeps the crumb moist for days. Stir-and-pour batter, no creaming required.

Lemon poppy seed pound cake with a tender buttermilk crumb, bright citrus zest, and a tangy lemon glaze drizzled over the top. The bundt cake that wakes up dessert.

Chocolate coconut cake topped with a boiled coconut-coffee-cocoa glaze that soaks into the warm crumb. Simple pantry ingredients for a rich, fudgy everyday cake with tropical coconut finish.

Old-fashioned buttermilk chocolate cake baked low and slow with cocoa powder and boiling water for an incredibly moist, dense crumb. A single-layer 9x13 sheet cake.