German Chocolate Muffins

Recipe and above picture courtesy of this awesome lady.

 Have I mentioned that I am obbsessed with Confessions of a Cookbook Queen? One day I will get around to posting more of my recipes, but here's are just so fun I have to let you all know about them! These muffins are pretty dang scrumptious. I will not admit how many I ate. But I'm sure by anyones standards it was way too many. I made these about a week and a half ago and Scotty was sure happy that I surprised him with breakfast that day. Here's what you'll need:

1 box (18.25 oz) Duncan Hines German Chocolate Cake Mix
Small box (3.9 oz) instant pudding, chocolate
3/4 cup water
1/2 cup vegetable oil
4 eggs


Topping:
3/4 cup flour
1/2 cup granulated sugar
3/4 cup light brown sugar
6 TBS butter, cold and cut into pieces
1 cup chopped pecans
1 cup coconut


Preheat oven to 350 and line 24 muffin cups with cupcake liners.


In a medium sized bowl, prepare the topping. Combine flour, both sugars, coconut and pecans. Add cold butter and combine.

I used my hands and mixed until mixture resembles coarse sand and sticks together when you grab a fistful.



In the bowl of an electric mixer, combine cake mix, pudding mix, eggs, water, and vegetable oil. Mix on low speed until just combined and stop to scrape down sides of bowl. Increase speed to medium-low and mix for a minute until well combined.



Spoon batter into cups, filling about 1/3 of the way full. Top very generously with crumb topping. Bake at 350 for about 20-25 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. 

 When I went to the store to buy ingredients the store I was at didn't have German Chocolate cake mix. I didn't want to go to another store (as it was 2am) so I settled for Swiss Chocolate cake mix. It was still very yummy. The topping is heaven. I could eat that all day long! (It's healthy right?) The recipe states it will make 24 muffins but I made about 30 and many of mine were over-filled. So be sure to only fill 1/3 of the way up with the batter. And you could easily make 3 dozen of these with this recipe.

These muffins seriously are delicious. I am already planning on making them again very soon! (and maybe I'll double the topping...maybe...)