This recipe is straight out of a New Jersey parish cookbook from at least twenty-three years ago. (I know it's that old because my grandmother's who submitted it and that's how long ago she died.) The recipe title as the cookbook has it is "Crumb Cake", but my family knows it better as "Baby Jesus Birthday Cake". I can't honestly say I care for the cake part as is—my mother always makes two recipes of the crumb part to go on one recipe of the cake part, and even so, there are reasons she only makes it once a year—but I'm thinking of adding cocoa powder, vanilla extract, and some more sugar to the cake part when I make it tomorrow to see whether slash how much that improves it.
cake: 1/2 c butter or margarine 3/4 c sugar 1 egg 2 c flour 1 Tbsp baking powder 1 tsp salt 1 c milk
crumbs: 1 c flour 1/4 c granulated sugar 1/4 c confectioners sugar 1 tsp baking powder 1 tsp salt 1 tsp cinnamon 1/4 c mazola corn oil
Soften butter; add sugar. Then stir in eggs. Sift flour, salt, and baking powder and alternately with milk. Fold batter into greased 9 1/2" x 13" x 2" pan. Mix crumbs together with fingers and drop onto batter. Bake at 350°F for 40 minutes.
And my icon is stealable if you are so inclined! (The person I stole it from didn't know who made it either 🙁)
![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small}
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
carisma_sensei
no subject
Date: 2019-12-24 02:51 am (UTC)This recipe is straight out of a New Jersey parish cookbook from at least twenty-three years ago. (I know it's that old because my grandmother's who submitted it and that's how long ago she died.) The recipe title as the cookbook has it is "Crumb Cake", but my family knows it better as "Baby Jesus Birthday Cake". I can't honestly say I care for the cake part as is—my mother always makes two recipes of the crumb part to go on one recipe of the cake part, and even so, there are reasons she only makes it once a year—but I'm thinking of adding cocoa powder, vanilla extract, and some more sugar to the cake part when I make it tomorrow to see whether slash how much that improves it.And my icon is stealable if you are so inclined! (The person I stole it from didn't know who made it either 🙁)