Humble Feast Monday plus recipe for Pumpkin Crumb Coffeecake

Locally grown pumpkins
Photo by Devra Gartenstein

Patty Pan's Humble Feast is a series of community-based, monthly dinner events featuring local ingredients sourced primarily from area farmers who are our friends and neighbors at the markets.

They are held the first Monday of each month, 5:30 to 7:30pm at the Patty Pan in the Briarcrest neighborhood at 15550 27th Ave NE, Shoreline 98155.

Reservations appreciated (and you get a discount if you prepay!)

This month's dinner is Monday December 2, 2019.

The menu: a breakfast-for-dinner theme: Strata with (or without) bacon, roasted potatoes, cauliflower hash, winter greens, and pumpkin coffee cake.

Pumpkin Crumb Coffeecake

Devra Gartenstein

Prep Time: 20 Minutes 

Bake: 50 Minutes 

Ingredients 

Topping:

1/2 cup all-purpose flour

1/2 oatmeal

1/2 cup packed dark brown sugar

Pinch of salt

1 1/2 teaspoons cinnamon

6 tablespoons unsalted butter, cold, cut into pieces 

Cake:

1 cup unbleached flour 

1 cup whole wheat flour

1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder

1/2 teaspoon baking soda

1/2 teaspoon salt

1 tablespoon cinnamon

2 teaspoons ground ginger

1/2 teaspoon nutmeg

1/3 cup vegetable oil 

3/4 cup unsweetened applesauce

1 15-oz. can pumpkin

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

1/2 cup sugar 

1 cup packed dark brown sugar

2 large eggs, beaten 

Make topping: In a bowl, stir together flour, oatmeal, brown sugar, salt and cinnamon. Add butter and combine with fingertips until mixture is crumbly. 

Make cake: Preheat oven to 350ºF. Butter and flour a 9-by-13-inch cake pan. In a small bowl, combine flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt and spices. In a large bowl, whisk together oil, applesauce, pumpkin, vanilla and both sugars until well mixed. Whisk in eggs. Add flour mixture to pumpkin mixture and stir until just combined; do not overmix. Pour batter into cake pan and spread evenly. Sprinkle with topping.

Bake cake until a toothpick inserted into center comes out clean, 45 to 50 minutes. Allow to cool in pan on a wire rack at least 20 minutes.