crumb cake

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   cake or coffeecake topped with a mixture of sugar and butter and flour

   Broadercake

Questions about crumb cake

What does crumb cake mean?

crumb cake means "cake or coffeecake topped with a mixture of sugar and butter and flour".

Is crumb cake a common word?

crumb cake is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.