Comments on: Warm Strawberry Crumb Cake

By: Tim

Tim — Tue, 18 May 2010 12:19:07 +0000

Hi Joanna,
Glad your cake ended up okay. Thanks for the Roald Dahl fact, it is always great to have a connection to him!

By: Joanne

Joanne — Mon, 17 May 2010 04:37:38 +0000

Made this with decent grocery store strawberries. Halved the recipe but still used 2 whole eggs. Divided up between 4 Emile Henry mini pie pans – pretty. The strawberries mounded up over the top of the pie pans. I spread the batter on top and covered with streusel – gorgeous! Well, the extra 1/2 egg made the batter a bit runny and when it began to heat up in the oven, much of the streusel slid off the mountain of berries and dripped onto the sheet under the pie plates. I was devastated. My gorgeous little pies were ruined – a mass of cooked berries and gloppy topping with only part of the lovely streusel!

Happy ending – they were ugly, but wow were they yummy! :) Thx for the great recipe. Will definitely make again in a larger pan that will contain the streusel.

btw – was reading Esio Trot by Roald Dahl to my 5-yr-old son and one of the words in magical tortoise language (everything spelled backwards) was Doof. Thought of this blog. Always great to have a connection with Roald Dahl.

By: Alicia

Alicia — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 05:15:19 +0000

One of your blog followers turned me on to this recipe (Thanks Ngoc!) I also halved it because there were only 3 of us. I didn’t have cornstarch, but a flour slurry seemed to work just fine. I also macerated the strawberries with balsamic instead of vanilla. And since I didn’t have buttermilk on hand, I subbed in plain Kefir. The cake came out so delicious. I’ll definitely be making it again.

By: Ngoc

Ngoc — Tue, 26 May 2009 22:31:50 +0000

Another new favorite of mine from your site! It was a huge hit at a birthday dinner, and I can’t wait to make it as a sort of coffee cake for my next big brunch gathering. :)

By: Lindsay

Lindsay — Tue, 26 May 2009 22:16:02 +0000

This was so, so, good. It’s so tempting to never try another strawberry dessert recipe again. But then you go and post a strawberry pie? Oh my.

By: Rima

Rima — Thu, 07 May 2009 08:34:52 +0000

Will you make me some, pretty please, with strawberries on top?

By: Michelle

Michelle — Wed, 06 May 2009 05:18:02 +0000

This sounds amazing, love strawberries!

By: Tim

Tim — Mon, 04 May 2009 16:44:47 +0000

Glad it was a hit. It is really satisfying. I’m also glad to hear it worked well with vanilla extract in place of the bean. A good way to save some money…

By: John

John — Mon, 04 May 2009 11:09:31 +0000

This was super easy to make. I made it with supermarket strawberries last night, I left out the vanilla bean (who wants to spend $10 on that) and just added a teaspoon of vanilla extract to the cornstarch slurry. It was a super big hit with my guests, lots of clean bowls.

By: Scott at Realepicurean

Scott at Realepicurean — Sat, 02 May 2009 15:34:24 +0000

Looks a bit like a crumble. Beautiful!

By: Tim

Tim — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 12:23:58 +0000

Great! It is so good. I even liked it as leftovers….

By: heather

heather — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 12:09:47 +0000

made this last night…. so good!

By: Tim

Tim — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 01:07:45 +0000

Strawberries and balsamic are so good!

By: unconfidentialcook.com

unconfidentialcook.com — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 00:55:28 +0000

The berries might have been big and ugly, but this looks beautiful. Whenever I get bad strawberries I toss them with some good balsamic and just a teeny bit of suar.

By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 19:58:05 +0000

Hey Dawn: I used this weird pan I have that is like 7×10. I think it would work in an 8×8 square too. I also think it would be cool as individual cakes in ramekins!

By: Dawn in CA

Dawn in CA — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 19:06:35 +0000

Looks yummy. What size pan did you use for the 1/2 recipe? Was the baking time the same? Thanks. :)

By: laura

laura — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 18:35:23 +0000

This looks scrumptious. It reminds me of my favorite easy, easy, eaaasy “crumble” recipe:

1 c. packed brown sugar
1 c. all purpose flour
1 stick butter
3 – 4 c. of your favorite fruit (I like mixed berries)

Mix the flour, sugar, butter together w/ a for. Put the berries in an oven safe dish & cover w/ “crumble.” Then bake until golden in a 350F oven — about 30 minutes. Serve with alone or w/ ice cream & eat up!

By: The Duo Dishes

The Duo Dishes — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 17:26:17 +0000

Yes, berries can be saved! Lemon juice and sugar usually do the trick, but nothing’s wrong with covering them with cake. Yum.

By: Hayley

Hayley — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 17:15:51 +0000

This cake looks wonderful! The seasonal strawberries will be here before we know it, and I can’t wait to try this out with them. Thanks for sharing!

By: Mara @ What's For Dinner?

Mara @ What's For Dinner? — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 13:06:33 +0000

Oh delicious… i’m thrilled about all the ginormous strawberries! I think they’re delicious!