Description
Finally, after all these years, I’ve come up with a solution for people who can’t decide whether to make an apple crumble or coffee cake. This features the best things about both of those recipes. It’s like baking a crumb-topped coffee cake on top of another coffee cake!
Ingredients
- 2 teaspoons unsalted butter
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- ½ teaspoon fine sea salt
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- ¾ teaspoon baking soda
- 1 ½ cups finely chopped toasted walnuts
- ⅓ cup packed light brown sugar
- ⅓ cup white sugar
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 3 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted
- ½ cup unsalted butter, at room temperature
- 1 cup white sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 1 ½ teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1 cup plain yogurt
- 2 each Honeycrisp apples
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Butter a 9×12-inch baking dish generously.
- Whisk flour
- sea salt
- baking powder
- and baking soda together in a bowl. Set aside.
- Combine walnuts
- brown sugar
- white sugar
- salt
- cinnamon
- and melted butter in a bowl. Mix until walnuts and sugar are thoroughly coated with butter.
- Cream butter and sugar together in another bowl with a spatula until well blended. Add 1 egg and whisk until mixture is smooth
- 2 to 3 minutes. Whisk in second egg until thoroughly incorporated. Add vanilla extract and yogurt; whisk together. Add flour mixture to wet ingredients; whisk just until flour disappears. Do not overmix.
- Remove cores from apples. Cut across into 1/8- to 1/4-inch slices. Stack up a few slices
- make 1 cut down the center
- and dice across into cubes. Add to cake batter
- folding in with a spatula until just combined.
- Spread 1/2 of the batter evenly into the bottom of the prepared baking dish. Scatter 1/2 of the crumble mixture evenly over the top. Top with the rest of the batter in dollops. Spread carefully to evenly distribute
- trying not to disturb the crumbs. Top with the rest of the crumb mixture. Press crumbs into the batter very gently.
- Bake in the center of the preheated oven until a toothpick or bamboo skewer inserted into the center comes out clean
- about 40 minutes. Let cool to room temperature
- about 30 minutes
- before slicing and serving.
Prep Time: 25 mins
Cook Time: 40 mins
Total Time: 1 hr 35 mins
Servings: 8