Hey everyone, it's Natasha of Natashaskitchen.com and today we're making a
berry crumb cake. It has a buttery, crunchy topping, a juicy layer of berries and a
soft and airy cake. No one has to know it was super easy and there's a surprising
liquid ingredient that creates a really light and fluffy cake. Let's do this!
Pre-heat your oven to 350˚F then in a large mixing bowl
combine three large room temp eggs with one cup of sugar and beat together on
high speed for about 5 minutes or until thick and whipped. Now add 1/4 cup of
light olive oil and mix just until combined. In a separate bowl whisk
together two cups of flour and two and a half teaspoons of baking powder. Add half
of the flour mixture to the batter and stir just until combined. Add one whole
Tbsp of lemon zest and this gives the cake an amazing pop of fresh flavor.
Add 1 teaspoon of real vanilla extract then stir to combine. We add 1/3 cup of
club soda or seltzer water, the more carbonated, the better the air bubbles
make the cake super fluffy and airy. Add the club soda while mixing. Finally add
the remaining flour and stir just until combined. Line a 9-inch springform pan
with a ring of parchment paper and generously butter the bottom and sides
of the pan. Transfer all of the batter to your prepared pan, slightly even out the
top then on to the berries. We cut the strawberries in halves and leave the
rest of the berries whole. Arrange the fruit evenly over the top and there's no
need for perfection. Let's quickly make our crumb topping in a medium bowl.
Combine 3/4 cup flour, 1/4 cup of sugar, 4 Tbsp of unsalted butter and 1/4
tsp of salt. Rub the butter and flour together
between your fingertips to create crumbs. Sprinkle the crumbs evenly over the top
of your cake then bake in a preheated oven at 350˚F for 45 to
50 minutes. We found our sweet spot at about 48 minutes and bake until a
toothpick comes out clean. All right, this has been resting in the pan for about 15
minutes and I just can't wait any longer. We're gonna do a taste test.
Okay, so we want to loosen it up from the pan and just use a thin edge spatula to
carefully go around the edge. Oh and I can already tell this is gonna be a
really soft cake. Okay, you ready? Oh look at that...
oh man it's as beautiful as it is delicious. So let's cut into this beauty...
generous slice of course. Okay, excited! Take a look at that. This is so
good. All right, let's eat this already. I just love that this is my job.
Eat all the cake. Okay, here we go.
Wow! I know I say that a lot but Wow! I love that buttery crunchy topping. You
can taste just a little hint of salt. It is so good and then that juicy layer of
berries and I'm telling you - baked berries are so good. Baking berries just
really amplifies the flavor and it's just this flavor explosion in your mouth.
I don't know how else to describe that but they're so good and then it has that
super fluffy crumb cake underneath. Oh, I'm so happy. This is easy because I can
make this all the time. If you guys enjoyed this video, give me a great big thumbs up
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