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Crumb cake, is it dessert or breakfast? I say both! Do you know someone with a birthday coming up that likes crumb cake? Then this Birthday Crumb Cake recipe is a must make for them. What better way to start or end a day than a slice of birthday crumb cake? This post and recipe was created for #SummerDessertWeek! I was sent samples by some of the sponsor companies but as always opinions are 100% mine.

Crumb cake and coffee cake are similar but not exactly the same. Both cakes are really similar, especially with the cake layer. What makes them different is the amount of streusel or crumb topping the cake has. Crumb cake has a thicker or chunkier layer of streusel on top as you can see in the photos here.

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• Ingredients for birthday crumb cake
• Birthday Crumb Cake Instructions
• Funfetti Birthday Crumb Cake
• Giveaway!

Ingredients for birthday crumb cake

How can you go wrong when sprinkles are involved? You can make this crumb cake in a loaf pan, a smaller size baking dish, or a bundt pan.

Cake Batter ingredients :

2 C flour

1 ¼ teaspoon baking powder

½ teaspoon baking soda

½ teaspoon kosher salt

½ C unsalted sweet cream butter, softened

¾ C sugar

¼ C light brown sugar

2 large eggs

1 large egg yolk

2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract

½ C sour cream

½ C whole milk

⅓ C rainbow sprinkles

Birthday Cake Crumb Topping :

1 C flour

½ C sugar

¼ C light brown sugar

¼ teaspoon kosher salt

½ C unsalted butter, softened

⅓ C rainbow sprinkles

Optional sugar glaze:

1 cup confectioners' sugar

2-3 tablespoon whole milk

Birthday Crumb Cake Instructions

For the crumb cake: Preheat oven to 350 degrees and spray a 9x5 baking dish with pam baking spray.

Using a large bowl, whisk the flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt and the rainbow sprinkles until combined.

Using a standing mixer, beat together the sugar, butter, brown sugar, eggs, vanilla and sour cream until combined and fluffy.

Alternate between the dry ingredients and the milk and beat until combined.

Pour the batter into the baking dish and set aside while you make the crumb topping.

For the crumb topping:

Using a medium to large bowl, combine the flour, sugar, brown sugar, salt and sprinkles until combined.

Using your fingers or spoon, cut the butter into the dry ingredients to create a crumb mixture.

Sprinkle the crumb topping onto the batter and sprinkle some more rainbow sprinkles on top.

Bake in the preheated oven for 45-60 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean.

If you choose to use the sugar glaze you will mix that together until it is smooth and drizzle it across the cake before serving.

Giveaway!

Welcome to this year's #SummerDessertWeek event hosted by Angie from Big Bear’s Wife. You're going to be in for a treat this year because we have 28 blogs/bloggers creating summer themed dessert recipes all week! We're sharing them with the hashtag #SummerDessertWeek on social media and you'll find some of the links in this post as well. Plus, we also have some great giveaways for you this week thanks to our amazing sponsors!

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PRIZE #1

Prize #1 — Dixie Crystals is giving away 1 (one) 4.2 Quart (4 Liter) Electric Air Fryer

PRIZE #2

Prize #2 — Circulon is giving away a TOTAL BAKEWARE 6-Piece Nonstick Bakeware Set - Two 9-Inch Round Cake Pans, 9-Inch Square Cake Pan, 9-Inch x 5-Inch Loaf Pan, 9-Inch x 13-Inch Rectangular Cake Pan, 10-Inch x 15-Inch Cookie Pan

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Giveaway open to US Residents 18 years or older.. All entries will be verified. No PO Boxes Please. Prizes will be sent directly from sponsors to winners, bloggers are not responsible for prizes. This giveaway runs from July 26th until July 31st at 11:59PMEST. Winners will be selected soon afterwards and contacted by e-mail. Winners will have 48 hours to respond or a new winner will be chosen. There are a total of 2 (two) prizes and therefore we will have a total of 2 (two) winners. No purchase necessary. Void where prohibited by law.

Disclaimer: These posts and recipes are part of the week long event, #SummerDessertWeek but all opinions are 100% mine! We would like Thank our amazing sponsors: Dixie Crystals and Circulon. These wonderful sponsors provided the prize packs for our giveaways and also sent samples and products to the #SummerDessertWeek bloggers to use in their recipes.

Check out the amazing #SummerDessertWeek recipes from our bloggers today!

Strawberry Banana Cheesecake Salad from Big Bear’s Wife
Copycat Orange Julius from Semi Homemade Recipes
No Bake Raspberry Cheesecake from Eat Move Make
Birthday Crumb Cake from It’s Shanaka
Strawberry Cheesecake Poke Cake from Fake Ginger
Blueberry Muffin Cake from Blogghetti
Lemon Cheesecake Mousse from 4 Sons ‘R’ Us
No Churn Mint Chocolate Ice Cream from Cindy’s Recipes and Writings
Strawberry Unicorn Puppy Chow from For the Love of Food
Brown Sugar Layer Cake with Peach Filling from Hezzi-D’s Books and Cooks
Smore's Ice Cream Torte from Family Around the Table
Strawberry Basil Cupcakes from Sweet Beginnings
Oreo Ice Cream Cake from Jolene’s Recipe Journal
Donut Bread Pudding from Savory Experiments
Flourless Chocolate Cake from Devour Dinner
Rhubarb Crumble from Shockingly Delicious
Japanese Strawberry Shortcake from SugarYums
Raspberry Cream Pie from Cheese Curd In Paradise
Instant Pot Twix Cheesecake from Baking up Memories
Lavender Honey Cake from Food Hunter’s Guide to Cuisine
Pineapple Upside Down Cake Dip from Sweet ReciPEAs
No Bake Key Lime Cheesecake from Comfortably Domestic
Peach Berry Eton Mess from Cookaholic Wife