Lemon Cake with Crunchy Topping

Quickly becoming a favorite “go to” book, The Essential Baking Cookbook is the source of this recipe.  The lemon flavor is - of course - clean and crisp…the texture of the cake is dense.
 
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The crunchy topping reminds me of the first hard frost in the fall…subtle, but you know it’s there.

My work friends will swarm around this…

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