“If you can see cake through the crumbs, it’s not a crumb cake,” Tangorra, owner of Colossal Crumb in Merrimac, insists, noting that in New Jersey, the dense, thick cinnamon crumb allows no gaps, creating firm, impermeable crust on top of a yellow cake.
“I have very fond memories of the crumb cake from local bakeries in northern New Jersey because there was so much crumb,