Louisiana crumb cake how to#

I also spread mine with lemon syrup and lemon curd but balanced the whipped cream with vanilla for aroma instead of lemon essence as I felt like there was already plenty of lemon in the cake's layers. My version is really more inspired by the Hawaiian version of lemon crunch cake. The Hawaiian version uses nuts in their crunch, pecans specifically as well as lemon curd between the layers. It is now available at the Alley Restaurant at Aiea Bowl as well as many places on the islands. Over in Hawaii where Lemon Crunch Cake reigns supreme it was said to have been invented by Norman Hideo Asao, a baker at Alexander Young Hotel in the 1950's.

Louisiana crumb cake how to#

Nowadays people head to Japantown to Yasukochi’s Sweet Stop where one of the co-owners Hatsy Yasukochi was taught how to make the coffee crunch cake from a former Blum's employee. It remained their most popular cake until Blum's closed in the 1970's where it was called the Koffee Krunch Kake. In San Francisco it was said to have been invented by by baker Ernest Weil in the 1940s when an employee overboiled candy and he found a new life for the toffee by using it around a cake. Coffee Crunch Cake seems to be popular in San Francisco where it is sold at Blum's while Lemon or Pumpkin Crunch seems popular in Hawaii. Some say that it comes from Hawaii, others say San Francisco. The origin of Lemon Crunch Cake is up for a bit of debate. I've given conventional directions and Thermomix directions below. I made this even easier by doing it in the Thermomix which made fast work of it. It's not the simplest of cakes but in its favour the crunch, candied lemons and lemon curd can be done ahead of time, up to a week if you want so all you have to do on the day you want to make it is bake the cake and smother it with the simple whipped cream frosting. This cake is for when you want to make something spectacular. Lemon Crunch Cake at its most basic is a soft moist butter cake (in America they use yellow box cake), layered with lemon curd, whipped cream and a crunchy outer. The finishing touch is the buttery, crunchy almond crunch layer that makes this cake so addictive! I called her Liz Lemon after one of my favourite television characters.

Dear Reader, this lemon crunch cake is a dream come true! A wonderfully moist and soft lemon butter cake is spread with lemon syrup, lemon curd and vanilla whipped cream and then smothered in cream and top with candied lemon slices.