Skip to main content

Crumb Topping

Recipe information

  • Yield

    makes enough for one 13-by-9-inch cake

Ingredients

3 cups all-purpose flour
1 cup packed light-brown sugar
1 tablespoon ground cinnamon
1 1/2 teaspoons coarse salt
3 1/2 sticks (1 3/4 cups) unsalted butter, room temperature

Preparation

  1. In a medium bowl, whisk to combine the flour, sugar, cinnamon, and salt; cut in the butter using a pastry blender, until large, moist clumps form. (Alternatively, mix together in a food processor.) Topping can be refrigerated in an airtight container for up to 2 weeks.

Reprinted with permission from Martha Stewart's Baking Handbook by Martha Stewart. © 2005 Clarkson Potter
Read More
A tangy exclamation point to the holiday meal.
Inspired by stuffing, a fully loaded loaf.
Nothing beats a classic apple pie—well, maybe a bourbon caramel apple pie.
This isn’t competing with a brownie. It’s in a class of its own.
Fall dreams are made of this. Who are we to disagree?
The Thanksgiving staple makes for a stellar weeknight dinner.
Brown butter, pecans, sage, bacon. What could be better?
Canned pumpkin, you shouldn’t have!