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Home » Brunch and Breakfast Recipes » Chai Latte Crumb Cake

Chai Latte Crumb Cake

October 11, 2018 by Eden Westbrook 5 Comments

This Chai Latte Crumb Cake is moist, tender, and wonderfully fall spiced with not only chai spices throughout the cake, crumb topping, and glaze, but the cake itself has a cup of chai latte mixed in. Talk about delicious!

Overhead shot of chai latte crumb cake, with a slice served on a plate and a cup of coffee on a wooden table on Sweet Tea and Thyme | www.sweetteaandthyme.com

The hills are alive.

With the smell of baked goods.

At least, they would be if we had hills in Florida. So it’s more like the Everglades are alive with the smell of baked goods.

Especially coffee cakes. Funny thing about coffee cakes: you don’t have to have them with coffee. They certainly aren’t made of coffee (most of the time), and they sometimes are called crumb cakes when they have that awesome crumbly topping.

Crumb cake, coffee cake, it’s still going to be my breakfast. Bring on the stretchy pants.

A slice of chai latte crumb cake in the foreground, the cake and a cup of chai in the background on Sweet Tea and Thyme | www.sweetteaandthyme.com

With this crumb cake, I wanted to bring fall without bringing pumpkin. There are so many pumpkin recipes right now, I feel like all the other fall flavors have been underrated and pushed to the side. But chai needs a comeback.

While I love drinking chai all year long, iced or warm, chai spice, that warm, spicy aroma of cinnamon, ginger, cardamom, cloves, and allspice just bring me straight to pumpkin carving, apple picking, and cozy evenings with the fire place roaring.

If you love chai lattes, especially if you love them as much as I do, you’ll love this chai latte crumb cake. Because there’s literally a cup of chai latte in the batter, chai spice in the crumb topping, and chai spice in the glaze. At first, I was a little worried that it’d be too much chai spice. But I learned that there apparently is no such thing. This cake has the perfect amount of spice and doesn’t overwhelm at all. And pouring on that spiced glaze is highly suggested.

A close up photo of a slice of chai latte crumb cake with glaze drizzled over the top and down the sides on Sweet Tea and Thyme | www.sweetteaandthyme.com

This chai latte crumb cake is amazing every time, full of warmth and deliciousness and perfect with your cup of coffee or tea in the morning. The cake itself is soft, tender, moist, and the crumb is just so good, it’s almost indescribable. I made so much crumb it’s basically like 2/3 cake to 1/3 crumb. No such thing as too much crumb.

I almost wanted a half-half ratio of crumb to cake, because it’s just so good and really brings that gently crunchy texture that I really love in coffee cakes.

Somehow this cake is simple, delicious, yet could totally be the star of your next fall and winter brunch.

Looking for more classic fall baking goodness? Check out:
The Best Cinnamon Rolls
Perfect Apple Pie from Scratch
Stove Top Candied Pecans
Apple Coffee Cake
Southern Buttermilk Biscuits
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Chai Latte Crumb Cake

Chai Latte Crumb Cake

Yield: 20 slices
Prep Time: 25 minutes
Cook Time: 50 minutes
Total Time: 1 hour 15 minutes

This Chai Latte Crumb Cake is moist, tender, and wonderfully fall spiced with not only chai spices throughout the cake, crumb topping, and glaze, but the cake itself has a cup of chai latte mixed in. Talk about delicious! 

Ingredients

Crumb Topping

  • ⅔ cup sugar
  • ⅔ cup brown sugar
  • 1 tbsp chai spice
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • 2 cups flour
  • ¾ cup unsalted butter, melted and cooled

Cake

  • 1 cup milk
  • 1 tbsp loose chai tea OR 2 bags of your favorite
  • 3/4 cup unsalted butter softened
  • 1 2/3 cups granulated sugar
  • 3 large eggs, room temperature
  • 2 tsp vanilla extract
  • 3/4 cup buttermilk
  • 3 1/2 cups all purpose flour
  • 2 1/2 tsp baking powder
  • 3/4 tsp salt
  • 3 tsp chai spice

Glaze

  • 1 cup powdered sugar
  • 1/2 tsp chai spice
  • 2-3 tsp milk

Instructions

Crumb Topping

  1. In a small bowl, combine flour, sugars, chai spice and salt. Add melted butter and stir until combined. Set aside.

Cake

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease a 9x13 pan or two 9 inch cake or pie pans and set aside.
  2. Place 1 cup milk in a small saucepan over medium heat. Heat milk until it just begins to bubble around the edges (scalding the milk), remove from heat and immediately add chai tea. Let steep for 15 minutes.
  3. While the tea steeps, beat butter and sugar for several minutes using a stand or hand mixer, until smooth, creamy, light colored, and fluffy. Beat in eggs, one at a time, then vanilla extract. Add buttermilk and mix in well.
  4. Once the tea has steeped for 15 minutes, remove the tea bags/strain the loose leaves from the milk and set aside.
  5. In a separate medium sized bowl, combine flour, baking powder, salt and chai spice.
  6. To the bowl of wet ingredients, alternate stirring in the dry ingredients and the chai latte, mixing well after each addition. Once the batter is fully combined pour it into the prepared pan(s). Sprinkle the crumb topping over the batter generously, making sure there are no empty spaces.
  7. Bake for 45-55 minutes, or until a toothpick or butter knife inserted in the center comes out clean.

Glaze

  1. In a small bowl, whisk all the glaze ingredients. Add more milk or powdered sugar, if needed, to get your desired consistency. Allow the cake to cool slightly then drizzle the icing over the cake. Serve warm.
  2. Keep covered and in the fridge for up to 3 days and rewarm in a low temperature oven.

Notes

Note: Chai spice recipe 3 tsp ground ginger. 2 tsp ground cinnamon. 1 tsp ground cloves. 1 tsp ground nutmeg. 1 tsp ground cardamom. 1/4 tsp black pepper (optional)

Nutrition Information:

Amount Per Serving: Calories: 480
© Eden Westbrook
Cuisine: American / Category: Breakfast/Brunch
Eden Westbrook

Eden Westbrook is the recipe developer, writer, and photographer behind Sweet Tea and Thyme. A classically trained chef, Eden has inspired home cooks into the kitchen with cultural comfort foods, easy family-friendly eats and sweets, and glorious spreads for date night and entertaining since 2015.

https://www.sweetteaandthyme.com

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Comments

  1. Sarah Newman

    October 11, 2018 at 7:31 pm

    Holy moly! Love chai flavor and this just looks like the perfect slice of fall!

    Reply
  2. Caitlyn Erhardt

    October 11, 2018 at 7:07 pm

    Wow, this looks amazing! The flavors sound perfect! I love lattes so this is right up my alley!

    Reply
  3. Lauren Vavala @ DeliciousLittleBites

    October 11, 2018 at 6:03 pm

    Chai tea is my go-to morning beverage and I just love baking with it too. The flavor in this cake is just delicious!

    Reply
  4. Danielle

    October 11, 2018 at 5:59 pm

    I love coffee cake and this looks like a tasty twist on it.

    Reply
  5. Tara

    October 11, 2018 at 5:51 pm

    Oh wow! This crumb cake looks amazing and the flavors sound incredible. I bet it does make the whole house smell wonderful.

    Reply

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