Strawberry Crumble Cake

Okay...so this isn't necessarily a Canada Day recipe but I'm including it in our Canada Day recipe week because it is a little bit red & white. 

This cake/crumble is perfect for tea time or dessert...or breakfast (It has fruit so therefore it can be eaten for breakfast.) 

You can make it in a tart pan or regular 9 X 9 baking dish. I made it in my 8 inch tart pan, which I knew would be too tiny, so I also used my mini tart pan for the extra batter and toppings.

Strawberry Crumble Cake

Ingredients

Cake

1/4 cup butter, softened

1/4 cup cream cheese, softened

3/4 cup brown sugar

2 eggs

1 tsp vanilla

1/2 cup Greek yogurt, strawberry flavor

1/4 cup oil

1 1/2 cup flour

1 tsp baking soda

1 1/2 tsp baking powder

Strawberry Layer

1 1/2 cups chopped strawberries

Crumble

1/2 cup oats

1/3 cup flour

1/3 cup brown sugar

1/4 cup butter, chilled

Directions

Preheat oven to 350. Spray a 9 or 10 inch tart pan with cooking spray, set aside.

Prepare cake - In a medium bowl beat butter, cream cheese, and brown sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in eggs, vanilla, Greek yogurt, and oil until well combined.

In another bowl, whisk together flour, baking soda, and baking powder. 

Stir the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients until just combined. Spread evenly into prepared pan. Batter will be thick. 

Sprinkle with the chopped strawberries.

Prepare the crumble - stir together oats, flour, and brown sugar. Using 2 knives or your fingers, crumble in the butter until mixture resembles coarse crumbs.

Sprinkle on top of the strawberries.

Bake at 350 until toothpick stuck in center comes out clean, about 20 - 30 minutes, and top is golden brown.

Let cool on wire racks. 

You can then remove from the pan by pushing up the removable bottom. If you do not have a tart pan with removable bottom then just line your baking pan with parchment paper before baking so you can remove the cake by lifting it out. (Of course, you can always serve it directly out of the pan if you want to.)

Oooooh...look at that cake-y, crumbl-y, strawberry-y goodness. 

While it would look pretty nice on your Canada Day table, it would also look good on your everyday table. 

You should probably be making this right now. 

People will think you are even cooler than are. 

Which is pretty cool....

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