Cinnamon Crumb Pound Cake. Have better words ever been strung together? This recipe rivals some of the best coffee cakes I’ve ever had – and it’s so ridiculously easy that I feel dumb for ever paying $4 a slice at Starbucks. It’s like a moist pound cake and an awesome coffee cake had a baby… it’s that good!
It works best with a stand mixer, but I’ve also had a friend test it with her handheld mixer and it works great, too. So it’s been double tested by two different cooks in two different kitchens and they both turned out amazing. Double yay.
Cinnamon Crumb Pound Cake
Cake ingredients:
4 cups all purpose flour
3 cups sugar
1 pound (or 4 sticks) of butter, softened
3/4 cup milk
6 eggs
1 tablespoon vanilla
Preheat oven to 325 degrees. In the bowl of a stand mixer (or regular bowl for a handheld) put in all of the ingredients at once and mix it all up at medium speed for two minutes. (No creaming butter and stuff, just dump it all in and mix it up, baby!) It will take two regular size loaf pans, or you can do one regular and 4 tiny ones (like in the photo below). A regular loaf pan will take 1 hour 30 minutes or small ones will take 1 hour 10 minutes – BUT either way, half way through you’re going to pull them out and add the cinnamon crumb topping below:
For the topping
1 cup firmly packed brown sugar
1/2 cup granulated sugar
2 tablespoons cinnamon
2 cups all purpose flour
1 cup (2 sticks) of cold butter cut in chunks
In the bowl of your mixer (or, again, in a regular bowl) put in all ingredients and mix together until you have a slight pebble consistency. Spread out the mixture on a sheet pan and put in the refrigerator to harden until you are ready to put on top of the half baked pound cakes.
Once the cakes have completed baking time, let cool before serving.
All of my neighbors love getting the mini versions of my cinnamon crumb pound cake as gifts, if I can keep my family from eating it all!
Cinnamon Crumb Pound Cake
Ingredients
For the Cake:
- 4 cups all purpose flour
- 3 cups sugar
- 1 pound or 4 sticks of butter, softened
- 3/4 cup milk
- 6 eggs
- 1 tablespoon vanilla
For the topping
- 1 cup firmly packed brown sugar
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 2 tablespoons cinnamon
- 2 cups all purpose flour
- 1 cup 2 sticks of cold butter cut in chunks
Instructions
For the Cake:
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Preheat oven to 325 degrees. In the bowl of a stand mixer (or regular bowl for a handheld) put in all of the ingredients at once and mix it all up at medium speed for two minutes. (No creaming butter and stuff, just dump it all in and mix it up, baby!) It will take two regular size loaf pans, or you can do one regular and 4 tiny ones (like in the photo below). A regular loaf pan will take 1 hour 30 minutes or small ones will take 1 hour 10 minutes - BUT either way, half way through you're going to pull them out and add the cinnamon crumb topping below:
For the topping
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In the bowl of your mixer (or, again, in a regular bowl) put in all ingredients and mix together until you have a slight pebble consistency. Spread out the mixture on a sheet pan and put in the refrigerator to harden until you are ready to put on top of the half baked pound cakes.
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Once the cakes have completed baking time, let cool before serving.
Carolyn says
January 13, 2014 at 9:05 amLooks yummy! Pretty Presentation.
MJ says
January 13, 2014 at 10:14 amLooks delicious! I am signed up to bring a breakfast bread for our MOPS meeting this week. I’ll be making these!
Yvonne Curtis says
January 14, 2014 at 11:39 amYummy, Yummy.
April Schluckebier says
January 16, 2014 at 9:53 pmDo any of you know if this can this be frozen and thawed out? I am going to visit family and I would like to make several ahead of time to take with us. Thanks!
Dorothy Rackley says
October 5, 2014 at 1:15 amCan you tell me what would happen if you put the Cinnamon mixture on top at the beginning of the baking time?
Could you as toasted pecans to the mix?
Could you do a layer of the mix in the middle of the. Ake?
Thank you!
Gina Luker says
October 13, 2014 at 10:46 amI have no idea. Experimenting is always fun. Try it…
Joann Stanley says
March 9, 2017 at 4:11 pmWe made this cinnamon crumb cake today. How wonderful. Thank you for sharing. We added 1 cup of pecans also.
Gina Luker says
March 10, 2017 at 9:17 amYumm! That sounds like an excellent addition, thank you!
Maggie says
March 14, 2017 at 11:18 amFound your site on a recipe search after buying Costco’s and thinking I found heaven in my mouth! Just wondering if you ever had it from there and how this compares. I’ll let you know as soon as I try it
Gina Luker says
March 15, 2017 at 1:46 pmPlease do Maggie, I haven’t tried Costco’s but I sure do know that mine is Heaven in my mouth, LOL 🙂
Hannah says
June 17, 2017 at 5:32 pmI found this recipe the same way! Have you tried it yet, Maggie? My dad used to get the Costco one (the cinnamon butter pound coffee cake, right?) from a local cafe that closed and we were hoping to get one for Father’s Day, but our local Costco stores don’t seem to carry it anymore 🙁
Gina Luker says
June 19, 2017 at 10:20 amGive it a try Hannah, I think you will be happy with it 🙂
Kathleen says
December 3, 2017 at 1:03 amOh, I have to try this cake ~ I just found the recipe tonight! Adore it, but with your additions? Awesome!
One quick question: did you make the gift “trays”/boxes you put the mini cakes in for gifting? If so, is there a template you would share? I could probably “invent” one, but I would sure love to find you’ve already created them! Or if you bought the trays, where ~ please?!?
Thanks, Gina! This looks absolutely YUM!
Gina Luker says
December 3, 2017 at 3:30 pmThanks Kathleen! I am sure you will love it and I did not make the little boxes I got them at Michaels 🙂
Elizabeth Reynolds says
March 22, 2019 at 8:19 amdid I miss when you put the topping on?
Gina Luker says
March 22, 2019 at 9:44 amElizabeth, Halfway through the baking time you pull them out and put the topping on and the continue to bake. It is in the actual recipe in the post. So yummy! Enjoy 🙂