Chai Spiced Crumb Cake
This Chai Spiced Crumb Cake is perfect for Chai Latte lovers. It’s got the perfect amount of Chai spice, with not too much sweetness!
I’m starting to see why there are so many kids in the world who don’t get disciplined.
It’s because punishing your kids basically means punishing yourself, too.
It’s totally stupid the way this all works. They are their OWN people. By the time my son hit kindergarten I was kinda like, okay well, live your life kid…let me know when you need me to drive you somewhere.
But no, that’s not how it goes. They get homework, YOU get homework. They get punished, YOU get punished.
The other day I spent an hour trying to decipher 4th grade math before finally handing the sheet back to Jon David and saying, “look kid, you better pay close attention in class because once you bring this mess home….you are on your own”. Then I went and watched Dr. Phil and ate Sour Patch Kids and felt strangely good about it. Hello, I put that math nonsense behind me infinity ago.
Also? It was a whole sheet of division, but you weren’t supposed to do real division to solve the problems. Here I was dividing things to get the answer and my son is like, “no, see it shows you right here, we do SUBTRACTION to get this answer.”
I’m like…but it’s DIVISION.
He then informed me that they haven’t learned division yet.
I’m like…but your sheet is full of DIVISION problems.
You could see how this might confuse someone and/or lead them to television programs where they can judge the glaring inadequacies of others.
Then my son had to go and get himself grounded from his iPod, PlayStation and laptop. Which was the right thing for me to do, until I lost my mind. A few days into his grounding I realized that I was staring a 4 day weekend in the face.
Like seriously? Of all the dumb times for me to have to teach life lessons.
Out of sheer boredom, he finally decided to start his own Origami business, but as it turned out, I was his only customer. I can only pretend to have so many emergencies that folded paper will solve, people. And also I never have cash and he wouldn’t take debit cards so he actually started declining my purchases. THEN Lucy got ahold of some dragon thing he folded and well…that didn’t end well at all.
One of these days, kids are going to learn to do weird math and stay out of trouble and stop dragging us down with them. It’s like they think we are their parents or something. Weirdos.
In the meantime, there’s always cake.
I am a huge fan of Chai tea — it’s the perfect amount of spice, which made me think that it would be a great flavor for crumb cake!
This cake turned out fabulously — you stir it up in one bowl, no eggs needed, it makes the house smell FABULOUS and it stays moist for days. It’s a truly wonderful cake!
Give it a whirl, friends! You won’t regret it!
This Chai Spiced Crumb Cake is perfect for Chai Latte lovers. It's got the perfect amount of Chai spice, with not too much sweetness!
Ingredients
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 cups granulated sugar
- 2 sticks cold butter (I use Challenge Butter), cut into Tablespoons
- 1 Tablespoon ground cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon ground cloves
- 3/4 teaspoon cardamom
- 1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 1/2 teaspoon white pepper
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 2 cups buttermilk
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350. Butter and flour a 9x13 pan and set aside.
- In a large bowl, combine flour and sugar. Cut in butter until well combined and crumbly -- mixture should stick together when grabbed my the fistful and squeezed, and there should be no chunks of unmixed butter. Set aside 1 1/4 cups of crumbs.
- In the bowl with the rest of the butter/sugar/flour mixture, add all of the spices, baking soda, baking powder, and salt. Make a well in the center of the mixture and add the buttermilk. Stir until just combined.
- Pour in prepared pan and top with crumbs that you set aside. Bake for about 30-40 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center of the cake comes out clean.
This is a seriously amazing cake. I hope you love it as much as I do.
Enjoy and have a great day!
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Dying laughing at this post Kristan! I hope you two make it through the weekend. Have a slice of cake each day!
Ugh, math. They make it so much harder for the kids these days!! I’m loving this crumb cake, I would like 2, 5 inch square pieces please….
This sound amazing! I can’t wait to try it!
oh my gosh, you make me laugh out loud! too funny! and this cake: yes!!!
Don’t even get me started on how they’re teaching our kids math now… Too funny on the whole punishment thing tho. I’ve totally been there! Sometimes it works out tho… like when you have plans to do something w/ them that you don’t really wanna do so when they screw up, you can be all, “Well, looks like we’re not going to Chuck E. Cheese now! Shoot!” >)
Ha! Yes. Love that.
The math – I know seriously THE MATH!! ugh! Hang in there Girl…you are not alone.
And this cake sounds fabulous – anything chai is just YUM.
Thanks for another great sounding recipe!!
Literally sat here laughing out loud and the dog is staring at me like I’m some weirdo! I have the joys of parenthood to look forward to – but like you say, there’s always cake!
Hilarious! So right about the math . . . my second grader had to solve 8+7 by using four different methods -using his fingers was not one of them! I told him I’ve never met another 40 year old who still uses their fingers to solve basic addition so go ahead and stick with the “old school”. :)
Kahn Academy. Goole it. Shows kids (and adults) how to do the stupid math they currently teach in schools. They can watch it over and over until they understand. No mother or dad needed.
KahnAcademy.org
Oh the math! Even my daughter’s 1st grade math (addition and subtraction) has me baffled. I haven’t quite figured out how the new methods are an improvement on the old. I’m trying to be optimistic that it will all make sense someday but for right now I’m confused :)
Once I got to algebra my Mum shouted ‘I’m out!’ and took up camp on the couch. She was a great cheer squad though keeping me going through my night study sessions. And she makes a great cup of chai tea.
I think it’s time I repaid her for all her hard work and made her this as a small thank you for all the things she helped me with (and still does), even if that didn’t include algebra ;)
I love the recipe, it’s looks very good, and I love your take on parenting. It really made me laugh!
Oh, don’t even get me started on the ridiculous way they are teaching math now. Why in the world do they insist on rounding everything and getting an about answer? Teach the freaking kids how to add correctly! Uuuggghhh! LOL! Now I’m all worked up about math…I think I need a ginormous slice of this yummy cake!!! That would totally calm me down!!!
I can’t wait to try this, I love the chai flavor!
could I use a chai tea bag to replace the spices????? and, wait until he gets to 5th grade: pre-algebra!!!! yikes!
I’m not sure it would be enough spices for the whole cake…and there would be actual tea in the bag, which would affect the flavor. But it might turn out fine — if you try it let me know!!
Lol! Right there with you on the math! Dying to dip this delicious chai crumb cake in my coffee!
Oh my gosh. 4th grade math. I’m a MATH MAJOR and half the time I can’t do it because the “old” methods are wrong. And they don’t have a book so she comes home with a worksheet then gets the problems wrong because the method is incorrect. OMG. That calls for lots of cake. LOTS of it!
I love chai and hate math. It’s like we’re twins.
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Chai tea is the freaking best ever, can’t wait to try it out soon! I’ll use it to de-stress from the typhoon of my very own almost-2-year-old Jonathan David! ;-)
This is my go to recipe when I have to bring breakfast somewhere… And I just realized the recipe says Crumb Cake, not coffee cake like I thought. Oh well, it always gets rave reviews! :) Made it again for a brunch tomorrow. Thanks for a great recipe!
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