How to Make New Jersey Crumb Buns 

I love this. As a new Jerseyian, I can tell you, it's so delicious

I am from New Jersey and I tell you these are THE REAL DEAL!!!

...I agree about NJ crumb buns...been living here in SO Fl since Aug, '79 and no one...NO ONE...knows what I'm talking about when I say 'crumb buns'...except for a rare Italian Bakery (most of the owners are also refugees from the twin People's Demokratic Republiks of NY & NJ) where the make them only during 'the season (roughly from Nov to the middle of May)...when I was a kid growing up in Fort Lee, NJ every Sunday after Mass my dad would go to Preschle's bakery next to his store on Main St. and get a dozen crumb buns for breakfast...if we three boys were 'good' (i.e. got good report cards) we got the crumbs that day...getting the fdrumbs was a rare occasion for us...

I worked at a bakery at the jersey shore and this recipe is pretty spot on just try making 60 trays of it per day 😂😂

Thank you for this recipe! I was born and raised in New Jersey and had this crumb cake at my disposable all the time. When I moved to the south I never saw or heard it anymore. It’s not in the stores. I know that Entenmann’s was selling it. Now I can make it.

One of my favorites when I treat myself with a cup of coffee ☕️ I didn’t know this was on RU-vid. So happy to see America’s Test Kitchen on the Tube

Beautiful Ladies, thank you so much for sharing this recipe with us all Julia and for introducing this recipe to a born and raised southerner

Love you two Ladies ! Thank you for this recipes ! I’m from NY so we called it New York Crumb Cake but thanks for clarifying as to why it’s called NJ Crumb Cake !

These came out perfectly! I didn't need the dough hook. I just used the flat attachment and it turned out perfectly!

OMG..just remembered going to the bakery on Sunday after church...in Passaic NJ....thanks for the recipe....will try tomorrow!

Made this yesterday. Absolutely delicious.

Entenmanns crumb cake has been my standard for years. This is on schedule for the weekend!

The recipe came out in an earlier CC magazine (sorry, I don't have the date) and I made it then. So yummy! Very much like what I grew up with outside NYC.

Definitely making these!!!!!!!

Thank u ladies ..must try.

Looks authentic to me! (Teaneck, New Jersey--1965-1968). Thanks for the recipe!

I am so glad I have ATK 20 Years cookbook! I need to mark this recipe.

I'm originally from Jersey and yeah I miss the crumb buns - its all about the crumb! Love that its more crumb than cake. I used to eat the topping off the cake as a kid.

✔ done. Well I tell you now it is beautiful, everything Julia said from the start. It's amazing honestly

Delicious I love your cooking show on Create”. I will try this recipe!

The Montauk Bake Shoppe (Long Island) has the best crumb cake I've ever had. This looks like theirs so I'm going to give it a try. They had a version with apple pie filling between the cake layer and the crumb topping which was wonderful.

Came great!

Do people really have to comment things that don't matter. Really you girls are the best 🌹🙏

Thank you!

Reminds me of Drake’s Coffee Cakes. I’m definitely going to try this, because it looks easy enough that the kids can help!

The cake here is made in a glass 9x13 pan. I wish they had said if it was necessary as I only have a metal pan.

I lived in Lake Hiawatha,NJ in the 60's and had the best bakery with these buns but I think cake was a little thicker. The rest is perfect. I didn't know about it being a yeast risen dough and had been using just a cake recipe. Big difference. Now on to search for perfect Italian hot dogs recipe.

WOW!!!!!!!

I remember Crumb Buns from my childhood in the Bronx.

The best crumb cake in NJ is B&W in Hackensack!!!

I add a teaspoon of vanilla to the batter to give it some flavor. As far as the crumb topping, I tried making it the first time by hand and found it to be too much work doing it that way (I’m old lol). Next time I tried to do it in the mixer with the paddle attachment and voila! The topping comes out perfectly in the mixer. Everyone ❤ this recipe! I live in NJ and on the way to work would stop at the Blue Ribbon Bakery that was in Union center. They made the best crumb buns in the state. This was 50 years ago and they are long gone, just like the rest of the old time bakeries around the state. I miss them and Geiger’s in Westfield that made the best apple pies! 😊

Could go for some b&w bakery right now

Very nice very very nice

In the oven see ya in about 45,it smells amazing in this kitchen 🙏🌹

Just the way I remember as a child in the 1960s and ‘70s, in Harvey Cedars, on Long Beach Island. Can’t bring myself to call it “LBI.” 😉

Jersey boy born and raised and we called them crumb buns (without the 'New Jersey' since it was a given). So I made this and had 2 issues. First, my dough didn't rise. My yeast was fresh, room was warm BUT I don't have a stand mixer. Used a hand mixer but of course the dough climbed up the beaters and had to keep pulling it down. Could this be why the dough didn't rise? 2nd issue: crumbs were rock hard (but yummy). Forgot to let it rest before crumbing. Could that be why they were so hard or...? Making for my 5th time. I hope my cake rises!

Déjà vu ... saw this segment one month ago. It's fate that I make this now.

Crumb buns? From Jersey and never heard of that. Coffee cake, on the other hand...

I'm always looking for a true copycat of the heavy crumb cake from B&W Bakery in Hackensack, NJ. What makes theirs different from everyone else's is that it has only a very thin layer of cake (very little rising) and a texture more like a stretchy bread than a cake, flavored with a tiny bit of lemon. The crumb-to-cake height ratio should be about 3-1, and some of the clumps should be larger. There are really two types of NJ crumb cake/crumb buns. There's what I call "bagel shop crumb cake", which has a pretty good ratio of crumbs to cake, but the cake is very cake-y and very sweet...and almost greasy feeling after you take the plastic wrap off that they sell it in. It's tasty, but VERY sweet. What makes B&W cake so special is that it's NOT very sweet and even the crumbs, despite all the sugar, aren't cloyingly sweet. I used to get them all the time for about 8 bucks. Now I live 500 miles away and I can only get them through Goldbelly at 40 bucks a pop. That's why I want a real-deal copycat recipe. The ones I've tried just aren't quite there.

What would happen if I use succanat instead?

I'm going to make cake flour. Bbiab

Which could be better, a crumb bun or a pony tail ?

I'm back, dough she's a risin in two rounds, topping is dry as can be, I made the cake flour with corn starch in AP. But I did something wrong with the measurements I tried to figure out what a stick of butter is on the fly. So we wait and..... I'll be back

Cannot wait to try this. What would work best as an egg substitute in this recipe? Possibly unsweetened applesauce? I ask because my grandson has an egg allergy. Thanks

Is there a reason for not using the Kitchen Aid to mix the crumb dough? I feel like that'd be way easier.

Looks like an Entenmanns crumb cake

Is the milk 110 F?

We use to get crumb cake with a cream filling & the heavy crumbs. My Aunt Muriel taught me how to choose one with heavy crumb. And yes we are from New Jersey. FYI it's crumb cake not buns.

Isn't this a rerun? They seem to be doing that a lot on this channel lately.

I’m from nj did not know crumb buns were a regional item

I wanna put a layer of apple in between those layers so damn bad

i have lived in NJ my entire life and never heard of a NJ crumb bun.

Does the milk have to be warm for the dough part of the recipe

mmm bake several batches of these to last me a whole month please!

It's also called coffee cake by some

Seems like the southern Brazilian "cuca". Which itself descends from late 19hundreds germans Kuchen

And the calorie count per piece? 1000?

It is my understanding that crumb buns are yeast leaven and crumb cake is leaven with baking powder like Drakes crumb cake..

Any way to make the crumbs soft like Entemmans?

...gotta dust those crumbs with 10x sugar!!!

Did anyone else wind up needing to add a TON more butter to the crumb topping just to get it to hold together? I used 24 Tbsp instead of 18 and it still never came together in a nice ball like theirs did.

It's a breakfast sweet. Not really a dessert.

What is cake flour? 😕

Crumb buns? I have never heard of them here in Pa...

A dismal, abysmal failure. The tutorial was so hurried that I had to keep backing it up just to get the ingredients right. They are not listed, you have to go to their website and get a free trial subscription, which I didn't want. Why are they not listed here? The cooks talked so fast that I had a hard time understanding them, even though I'm originally from nearby Long Island. I used the transcript and key moments but found them unhelpful. Nothing in the video about the milk being warmed being warmed before being put in the cake dough. Nothing about the melted butter being hot enough to melt the two sugars. The topping before baking was supposed to be like cookie dough, but 4 cups of flour to 2 tbsp. of melted butter did not produce a cookie dough consistency. I had to use A LOT more butter, and I mean a lot, as if I were actually making cookie dough. The size of the pan was also not specified. The cake is in the oven now, but I'm sure I'll have to throw it away, having wasted a lot of expensive ingredients (namely, the butter). Disappointed. EDIT: Well, I didn't have to throw it away, but it was a very heavy cake and the crumbs were crunchy. I overbaked it, but it wasn't burnt.

Work of art but I pass I have to watch my sugar intake.

Kuh-chhen! Learn that guttural Arabic or Russian "H".

that cake is a little thick to be honest!! less is more!!!

stop with the powered sugar already!!!

Looks good but I think you try to kill all of us with diabetes

This show was so much better with Kimball. The the one in the light shirt just seems fake. Sad, used to be a really good show.

It's a fucking crumb cake, okay. It's not specific to New Jersey 🙄.

Too much sugar is bad for us, right? I would rather watch videos about savory dishes than about sugary treats.