A Big Step Up from Your Average Coffee Cake

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Courtney Carra

subheading: For the Cake:

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2 cups all-purpose flour (9 ounces; 256 g)

1 /4 cup granulated sugar (1 ¾ ounces; 50g)

1 ½ teaspoons instant or rapid-rise yeast

¾ teaspoon Diamond Crystal kosher salt; for table salt, use half as much by volume

1 teaspoon grated lemon zest, optional

½ cup ( 120 ml) warm whole milk (110 to 120°F)

1 large egg

3 tablespoons unsalted butter, cut into 3 pieces, softened (42g)

subheading: For the Crumb Topping:

3 sticks unsalted butter, softened (24 tablespoons; 339g)

1 ½ cups packed light or dark brown sugar (11 ¼ ounces; 320g)

1 ½ cups granulated sugar ( 10 ½ ounces; 300g)

1 tablespoon ground cinnamon

3 ½ cups all-purpose flour ( 15 ¾ ounces; 455g)

Confectioners' sugar for dusting

Note: Ingredients may have been altered from the original.

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