streusel
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In baking and pastry making, streusel () is a crumbly topping of flour, butter, and sugar that is baked on top of muffins, breads, pies, and cakes. Some modern recipes add spices and chopped nuts. The mixture can also be layered or ribboned in the middle of a cake.
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- Prepared food.name
- Streusel
- Prepared food.image
- Ananas-Kokos-Streusel.jpg
- Prepared food.image_size
- 250px
- Prepared food.caption
- A pineapple-coconut cake topped with streusel
- Prepared food.country
- Germany
- Prepared food.main_ingredient
- Butter, flour, sugar
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- Instance of
- food ingredient
- Subclass of
- food
- Part of
- Polish cuisine
- Has part
- sugar
- Country of origin
- Germany
- Image
- Ananas-Kokos-Streusel.jpg
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In baking and pastry making, streusel () is a crumbly topping of flour, butter, and sugar that is baked on top of muffins, breads, pies, and cakes. Some modern recipes add spices and chopped nuts. The mixture can also be layered or ribboned in the middle of a cake.
Some baked dishes which have a streusel topping are streuselkuchen, coffee cake, babka, and apple crisp.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “streusel” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.