Pumpkin Crumb Cake

This Pumpkin Crumb Cake is the final word fall dessert with a wonderfully 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 fundamental baking staples, a few bowls, and a whisk.

Need extra pumpkin desserts? Attempt 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 may have you ever scraping up each chew from the plate.
Straightforward to make with fundamental baking staples and a little bit pumpkin puree.
The ending glaze makes it temptingly fairly!

A plate of slices of pumpkin crumb cake.

In our opinion, among the finest issues about fall is all of the seasonal desserts. This pumpkin crumb cake is certain to turn out to be one in every 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 may 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: You should definitely 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. If you happen to’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 gentle 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: If you happen to don’t have bitter cream, plain Greek yogurt works as a 1:1 substitute.
All-Function Flour: The bottom for each the cake and the streusel. Customers have reported that gluten-free blends designed to be a direct alternative do work on this recipe.
Pumpkin Pie Spice: If you happen to don’t have a pre-made mix, you may 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 may also simply use water, however milk provides a little bit fats that makes the icing a little bit thicker and balanced, quite 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 little 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 Strategies

We advocate slicing this cake into 9 slices for the standard serving measurement. You may also make this into bite-size finger meals by slicing right into a 4×4 grid supplying you with 16 slices. It might be tough 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 choice) 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 take pleasure in, thaw within the fridge in a single day and glaze simply earlier than serving.