Streuselkuchen (; "crumb cake"), also known in

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as crumb cake, is a cake made of yeast dough covered with a sweet crumb topping referred to as

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and Ashkenazi Jewish cuisines. A streuselkuchen is usually a flat cake made on a baking tray and cut into oblong pieces. It should be flat – about thick – with crumbs making up about half of its height. The original version uses yeast dough, however a short crust is possible. A puff pastry at the bottom turns it into a prasselkuchen. Many variants of the cake are prepared with fillings such as fruit (mostly of sour taste, e.g. apples, gooseberries, sour cherries, rhubarb), poppy seeds or creme or using a shortening-based dough.

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