Where's the Crumb? (Recipe - New Jersey Crumb Cake) (2024)

I always, always forget to grease my baking dishes/pans. Then I realize before I put the dish in the oven, and have to sit there and consider if I’m willing to give it a try. Generally I just pretend I don’t care and bake it anyway. Pans these days are much better at the non-stick feature. But for that 20% of the time that it does stick, oh, what a waste!!

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Most of mine have been small things that didn’t really affect the finished product. I actually can’t think of anything big like forgetting to add the dry ingredients. But I’m sure there’ve been instances that are just escaping my memory at the time. I did catch some chicken on fire once because I was cooking it too close to the broiler, that was kind of embarrassing. 🙂

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My kitchen trash can will testify to how many hard-as-rock and black-as-charcoal cookies that it had to swallow because I was on the phone talking! But how can we help not multi-task when life is fast?

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Good thing you were able to save it, because you are right – the crumb topping is the best!!

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lol..I learned a LONG time ago that I am unable to talk on the phone when I cook!!!
LOL

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I know I’ve done multiple things but the only thing I can think of is forgetting to add the sugar to an angel food cake…and oil/butter to muffins. The angel food cake was disaster, the muffins just a bit rubbery.

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This makes me giggle because I would have done the same thing. I am glad it still turned out well though.

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Heh, I do that stuff all the time. The big one is forgetting to start the pasta. My sauce will be done, the garlic bread toasted, we’re both starving from smelling it all cooking for the past hour or two and the water isn’t even on the stove yet.

The crumb cake looks incredible!

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Just laughing that you forgot the crumb. Good thing that you could rescue your cake.

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When I was young, I once forgot the flour when I was making pumpkin bread. To this day, my brothers won’t ever let me forget it. In fact, my husband now remindes me about it when I’m baking – and he wasn’t even there originaly.

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That’s too funny! My hubby had some similar stories, replacing sugar with salt etc.

I STILL get baking powder and baking soda mixed up.

Lovely crumb cake!!

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As long as I’m following a recipe to the letter, I can talk on the phone while doing it. But when does THAT ever happen? I’ve definitely made the mistake of trying to half or double a recipe without full concentration and only halving or doubling part of the ingredients… But that’s part of the fun of cooking, no? 😉

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My first cookie experience was also a disaster. I’ll spare you the details, but know that it involved a hand mixer and my mom nicknaming them “puberty cookies.”

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I’m notorious for melting the plastic handles of things by leaving them too close to the gas burner while I go off to do something …

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when i was 14, i was making no bake cookies… the recipe (in my mom’s handwriting) called for Oleo. I had no idea what that was, mom wasn’t home, figured since I’d never heard of it, it couldn’t be THAT important, and continued with the cookie-making. BIG MISTAKE.

My mom still laughs about that one.

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Your cake still looks beautiful, Kristen and I’m sure it was delicious!
Over the years, I’ve forgotten many ingredients- recently I forgot the soda in some oatmeal cookies I was making(my husband was talking to me); they were like hard rocks!I cannot do 2 things at once either.

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I have ruined more recipes being distracted while preparing them. I have left the dry mixtures out more than once. Probably my worst failure was as a young teenager too. I wanted to bake sugar cookies but didn’t know what shortening was. I called a friend and she said it was water. Of course, my cookies never came together until my mom got home. We doctored them with this and that… (could never duplicate them) and they were the BEST sugar cookies! Thanks mom!

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I have to add this… yesterday, while baking 200 cinnamon rolls for campers, I was also giving out morning medication. When all was said and done I knew I was missing some rolls. I went back to the oven (big convection oven) and found the missing pan of 12… they were brown hockey pucks! Too funny…

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I’m not sure what makes this crumb cake a New Jersey cake, but having lived many years in New Jersey, I can certainly see that it’s the type of crumb cake I love. I never bake pies while talking on the phone; I always forget something vital, like the butter, or the flour.

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You’re story reminded me of the time I made chili con carne. We were already happily munching away on the dish when I discovered I actually forgot to put in the beans!! Felt pretty stupid at the time… 🙂 Despite your little mistake, the cake still looks delicious!

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One year, for my mom’s birthday, my younger brother and I were making a cake and dinner. I would guess we were about 10 and 8. I was making dinner while my brother was making the cake. After a while, he said, “Wow, I can’t believe this turns into cake. It looks disgusting.” Apparently he forgot to put the mix in so it was just oil and eggs! Luckily we were able to salvage it, but he will never live that down 🙂

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I forgot to add the sugar to a muffin recipe because my boys were “helping” me! Now, I tell them I have to make a recipe at least 1 time on my own then they can help. Otherwise I completely get lost in the recipe!

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Forgotten to add salt. Accidentally put in egg yolks when it should’ve been all whites. Left out cocoa in chocolate cupcakes.

Things happen! 🙂

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Usually, I forget something that is in the microwave. Out of sight out of mind. I should get a microwave that beeps periodically if something has finished being heated and the door has not been opened since. That wouldn’t resolve problems with food being put in and never warmed up though…

Back to the drawing board.

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I rarely have your exact problem because I hate talking on the phone. BUT when I’m not concentrating I can make quite a disaster in the kitchen.

Most recently, I was making brownies, mixed them up, popped them in the oven and started to clean up when I realized I hadn’t put in the vanilla extract. Since I had literally just stuck the brownies in the oven I pulled them out, drizzled the vanilla over them and used a mini-whisk to stir in the vanilla. The brownies turned out just fine!

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