: a crumbly mixture of fat, sugar, and flour and sometimes nuts and spices that is used as topping or filling for cake
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Add Topping to Filling and bake: Sprinkle the streusel topping evenly over the apples.
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Darcy Lenz, Southern Living, 7 Oct. 2024
Prince Street specialty dessert pizza — a Nutella, marshmallow and cinnamon streusel topped pie — exclusively at the pizzeria’s Nolita storefront on Prince Street.
—Emily Mercer, WWD, 3 Sep. 2019
That makes getting a bit of streusel with your cake bite purely delightful.
—Kimberly Holland, Southern Living, 25 Sep. 2024
The piecrust cookie at Janie’s (which opened its first brick-and-mortar shop in 2021, and now has three Manhattan locations), however, really is novel: a sweet filling, usually pie-inspired, sandwiched between a circle of flaky piecrust, on the bottom, and an insulating layer of streusel, on top.
—Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2024
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Darcy Lenz, Southern Living, 7 Oct. 2024
Prince Street specialty dessert pizza — a Nutella, marshmallow and cinnamon streusel topped pie — exclusively at the pizzeria’s Nolita storefront on Prince Street.
—Emily Mercer, WWD, 3 Sep. 2019
That makes getting a bit of streusel with your cake bite purely delightful.
—Kimberly Holland, Southern Living, 25 Sep. 2024
The piecrust cookie at Janie’s (which opened its first brick-and-mortar shop in 2021, and now has three Manhattan locations), however, really is novel: a sweet filling, usually pie-inspired, sandwiched between a circle of flaky piecrust, on the bottom, and an insulating layer of streusel, on top.
—Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2024
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“Streusel.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/streusel. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.
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