Easiest Cinnamon Crumb Cake
Ingredients
16 oz.
Kowalski's Buttermilk Pancake & Waffle Mix, divided
½ cup
brown sugar
½ cup
finely chopped pecans (optional)
5 tbsp.
Kowalski's Salted Butter, melted
2 tbsp.
ground cinnamon
½ cup
sugar
¼ cup
canola oil
1
egg
1 tsp.
Kowalski's Organic Madagascar Vanilla Bean Paste
8 oz.
sour cream
¼ cup
hot water
- confectioners' sugar or Maple Glaze (recipe below), for finishing
Directions
- Preheat oven to 350°.
- In a small mixing bowl, combine 1 cup pancake mix, butter, brown sugar, pecans and cinnamon; mix well. Set cinnamon topping aside.
- In a large mixing bowl, whisk sugar, oil, egg and vanilla until mixture is pale in color and sugar is mostly dissolved (about 2 min.).
- Add remaining pancake mix and sour cream to the sugar mixture in 3 additions, alternating between each; mix until incorporated.
- Whisk in hot water.
- Spray a 9" round springform pan with cooking spray. Spread ½ of the batter in the bottom of the pan; sprinkle evenly with ½ of the brown sugar mixture.
- Drop spoonfuls of remaining batter on top of the brown sugar layer; use the back of the spoon to pat batter evenly over filling.
- Sprinkle batter evenly with remaining brown sugar mixture; bake in preheated oven until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out completely clean (about 50 min.).
- Remove from oven; let cool in pan for 10 min.
- Loosen cake from the edge of the pan; remove collar. Let cake cool completely to room temperature.
- Serve dusted with confectioners’ sugar or drizzled with Maple Glaze.
MAPLE GLAZE: In a small mixing bowl, whisk ½ cup confectioners' sugar with ¼ cup Kowalski's Pure Maple Syrup until smooth.