Streusel is rough crumb mixture of flour, butter and sugar, then additional ingredients such as spices, chopped nuts or oatmeal are added to the mix, making it a perfect topping to compliment cakes, muffins, pies or sweet breads. I like to use it on cakes, thus eliminating the need for frosting.
I wanted to make my favorite easy Pumpkin Spice Cake to take to a meeting. I knew of one person attending with a nut allergy, so I used oatmeal instead of chopped nuts in the streusel, serving it with a container of whipped topping on the side.
Since I wanted a heartier fall cake for the streusel topping, I used a spice cake mix instead of yellow and added an extra egg to the cake mix.
Oatmeal Streusel Crumb Topping
Ingredients
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 1/2 cup flour
- 1 cup oatmeal (old fashioned works better than quick cooking oats)
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 2 shakes salt (about 1/4 teaspoon)
- 1/2 cup COLD butter
Directions
- Mix everything but the butter in a medium mixing bowl.
- Using a pastry cutter, cut the butter into the flour and sugar mixture until it’s dry looking and a large crumbly mix.
- Sprinkle the crumbs over prepared cake or pie.
- Bake as directed for your cake or pie or until an inserted toothpick comes out clean. Mine took an extra 5 minutes.
Haphazard Homemaker 
Looks wonderful.
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Thank you 🙂
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Darn, I missed spice cake!! I bet that made the kitchen smell lovely 😊
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Oops! Sorry you missed it. You did, and yes the the whole house smelled wonderful.
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Healthy and yummy!
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Thank you! Better than frosting sometimes. 🙂
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This looks divine!!!
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Thank you 🙂 It’s pretty tasty. A nice change from frosting.
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OMG that looks wonderful and that topping!!!!!
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Thank you, Diane! It is very good. Hubby is not much of a cake eater, but he likes this cake both as a dessert and with his coffee if he is up before I am.
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I’m not a huge pumpking person (guess that’s wrong to say at this time of the year!), but it was very good. I enjoyed it. Thanks for sharing the recipe.
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I’m not a fan of pumpkin but that does look good!
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It’s not overly pumpkin-y tasting, so you might. This topping would be awesome on an oatmeal or applesauce cake, too. 🙂
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Ooh my mouth is watering! I’m going to do some baking this afternoon so i may try this out. Great easy to follow recipe and it looks really nice!
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Thank you so much!
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You’re welcome 😇
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Reminds me of the Entenmann’s cakes my parents used to get when I was a kid. I loved the crumb topping the best. Thanks for making it look so simple!
Patricia
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Thank you 🙂 It is very simple to make the topping.
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This looks so good. My aunt can’t eat nuts so this will be perfect for the muffins my son wants to make her. Thank you Robin.
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It adds a nice crunch. 🙂
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