My easy streusel topping recipe (also called crumb topping) is perfect for cakes, quick breads and muffins as a way to add the most amazing crunchy texture. You can make it ahead and store in the freezer until ready to use. This is a base streusel recipe, with options to add spices, oats, and chopped nuts to customise it however you like!
Hi hi! I am just popping in to share my streusel topping recipe with you! Streusel is one of those amazing recipes you can have in your back pocket to quickly whip up and pop on top of something before it goes into the oven to give it a little bit of something something.
I make this streusel topping all the time - the quantity in this recipe works great as a topping for a batch of muffins, a single layer cake (I add it to the top of my butter cake a lot), or a generous topping for a quickbread such as my banana zucchini bread.
If you are looking for a crumb topping for pies, I have the perfect recipe too: Crumb Topping for Pie which is a scaled up streusel recipe and adds a perfect topping to a fruit pie!
Choose your own adventure streusel recipe
You will see in the recipe that there is a base recipe, and then options for adding to it. The options really are endless here - I like adding in oats and nuts, and mixing up the spices depending on what I am putting it on and the flavour profile that I am working with.
If you want a little more texture, finely chopped nuts such as walnuts, pecans, hazelnuts or pistachios would be perfect. Oats an an amazing chewy texture and I love the combination of nuts and oats with fruit. If you want to keep it simple, make it as written.
Adjusting recipes to use streusel topping
For the most part, when you add a streusel to a recipe, the baking step will be the same, you may just have to adjust the baking time slightly, as the added weight of the streusel may weigh it down (especially in a deeper pan like a loaf pan) so it will need a little more time. If the recipe is developed to already have the streusel on the top, you can follow it as written.
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Answers to your baking questions
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10 Minute Streusel Topping
- Author: Erin Clarkson
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Prep Time: 10 minutes -
Cook Time: 0 minutes
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Total Time: 10 minutes
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Yield: 8 servings 1x -
Category: Baking -
Method: Baking -
Cuisine: American -
Diet: Vegetarian
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My easy streusel topping recipe (also called crumb topping) is perfect for cakes, quick breads and muffins as a way to add the most amazing crunchy texture. You can make it ahead and store in the freezer until ready to use. This is a base streusel recipe, with options to add spices, oats, and chopped nuts to customise it however you like!
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Ingredients
Base Streusel
- 80g all-purpose flour
- 45g brown sugar
- 20g raw / turbinado sugar (or use more brown sugar)
- ½ tsp cinnamon or spice of your choice
- Pinch of salt
- 60g butter (I used salted), cold from the fridge, cut into cubes
Optional extras
- 35g finely chopped nuts of your choice
- 35g Old Fashioned Oats
Instructions
- Place the flour, brown sugar, raw sugar, cinnamon or spice of your choice, and salt in a medium bowl and mix together until combined.
- Add the chopped butter, and using your fingertips, rub the butter into the flour mixture until it becomes crumbly. It will feel like it is not enough butter but just keep going - once all the butter is rubbed in, it will form a clumpy mixture.
- Add in chopped nuts and / or oats if using and mix to combine.
- Use immediately or store in a covered container in the fridge until ready to use - up to 4 days. If you chill it before using you may need to gently break up the streusel with your hands before adding to the recipe.
Notes
Some flavour combinations:
Banana nut muffins - Use cinnamon as the spice and add in 35g chopped walnuts and 35g old fashioned oats.
Plum Cake with Streusel topping: Use cardamom as the spice, and add in 35g chopped walnuts and 35g old fashioned oats.
Butter Cake: Make as written - do not add the oats and nuts unless you would like to.
Spice Cake: As above - make as written, I usually do not add the oats or nuts.
Banana Bread / Banana Zucchini Bread: Make as written with cinnamon, I don't usually add the nuts and oats.
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