Happy Thursday!! Hope your week is treating you well 🙂 I posted some of my favorite Memorial Day Pictures from our Day Trip to San Diego if you’d like to take a peek, check it out on my Life in OC page, you can subscribe to that page as well….upper right corner of the page 🙂
I’ve got a fun cinnamon sweet cupcake to share with you today. Crumb cakes/coffee cakes are typically done with yellow cake, but I decided I wanted to give it a try with my favorite chocolate cake recipe…..and yes, it was really good! You get little bites of slightly crunchy, cinnamon buttery topping with every bite of cupcake. I LOVED these, the boys really enjoyed them too!
My friend Beth Royals created the crumb topping from her Starbucks Coffee Cake, from back in early 2008 when I just started my blog. I just halved the crumb topping here. Hope you’ll all enjoy, bake up some cupcakes this weekend 🙂
Here’s your line up 🙂
The items you’ll need for the crumb topping….it’s seriously the best crumb topping ever!
Break out your favorite cupcake liners 🙂
Mix up your cake mix and fill em’ up!
While the cupcakes are partially baking, prepare the crumb topping….cut up some cold butter and mix with the ingredients listed below 🙂
Spoon some jam over partially baked cupcakes, then sprinkle with the crumb topping….back in the oven they go!
Ta-da! Love these 🙂
Chocolate Crumb Topped Cupcakes
Ingredients
- 1 box devils food cake mix
- 1 small box chocolate pudding mix
- 4 eggs
- 1/2 cup vegetable oil
- 1/2 cup water
- 8 oz sour cream
- 3/4 cup of your favorite jam warmed in the microwave until melted
- Beth Royals Crumb Topping
- 1 stick cold butter cut into small cubes
- 3/4 cup packed light brown sugar
- 1 cup plus 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
- 3/4 tablespoon ground cinnamon
- 3/4 tablespoon pure vanilla
- powdered sugar for dusting
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. In a stand or electric mixer, beat the cake mix, pudding, eggs, oil, water, and sour cream until well combined. Will appear to be nice and thick 🙂 Fill 24 muffin cups 1/2 full and bake for 12 minutes.
- While cupcakes are partially baking, place cold butter cubes, brown sugar, flour, cinnamon, and vanilla into a stand mixer. Beat until combined and crumbly looking. After cupcakes have baked for 12 minutes, remove from oven spoon jam over tops then sprinkle with crumb mixture, pressing down slightly. Bake for another 15 minutes or until toothpick comes clean when poked into centers.
- Let cool, then sprinkle with powdered sugar.
Notes
While I was baking up these cupcakes, I had a superhero come to visit. He was very interested in my choice of cupcake liners!! LOL! I love my little Superhero 🙂
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Have a great rest of your week and weekend!! Come back soon!
Wow! These look fantastic! Must try 🙂
These look amazing Jenny! We are all cupcake lovers in my house so I know these would be a hit! Love the liners too, very cute.
I love butter. I love crumb topping. AND I LOVE YOUR cupcake liners, TOO CUTE!! I am on a mission to find… 🙂
I love crumb topping on desserts, but hardly ever use it because of the guilt over all that butter! But, these look amazing and I just might have to go for it!
gorgeous cupcakes!! The crumb topping is a perfect addition!
I know my girls would love them!
Cheers
Dennis
Added your great blog to my Google reader!
YUM!!! And so simple too I love it!
You had me with the chocolate cupcakes, then did me in with the crumb topping. Beautiful photos!
lordy these look delicious! i am sure they would be a bit hit!!!!
I would quite happily eat spoonfuls of the crumb topping!
Love, love the liners!! These look absolutely delish:)
Sigh, I could eat about 12 of these right now. Lovely!!
Oh. My. Goodness. These cupcakes are making my mouth water! Yum!
LOVE the cupcakes liners…so cute! But what a fabulous recipe and perfect for an “any time” cupcake!
I think I like the cup liners as much as the dish!
These look so scrumptious! And what gorgeous photos.
Such a cute superhero that came in to visit you!! These cupcakes look wonderful, I love any sweet with a crumbly topping. Have a great weekend 🙂 xo
What a great recipe, yummy. Just saw your email on cc from Jenny. I was going around to see who all is going. Looks like a great group and I see you were also a hygienist, me too!
Can’t wait to meet you in Chicago Angie!! Another fellow hygienist….how cool! We’ll talk food and teeth, lol!
These look so good and where did you find the cupcake liners? I love leopard print stuff. Toooo Cute
I think we have the same granite. Haha! Venetian Gold?
Too funny Molly! I’m not sure what it’s called, it came with the apt!! Have a great night!!
Oh my goodness – this looks so yummy!! Can’t wait to try it!
I could see myself eating all the crumbs off the top of each one, LOL. Those look delish!!
Jenn
Those look seriously delicious! Can’t wait to try them! 🙂 And your photos are absolutely jaw-dropping gorgeous!!! 🙂
Thanks Amanda 🙂 You are the sweetest!!
Those cupcake liners are adorable!!! Will have to try these sometime – I know my boys would devour them!
Yum-o!
These look delicious! I will definitely be baking some of these up soon!
I agree adorable super hero, the cupcakes are not to bad either! They look divine with that topping.
very delicious looking wow that crumb topping is yummy !
Those look great – and I love the superhero!
Love the crumb topping and the liners are super fun!
These look really delicious and who doesn’t love a cupcake?
These look great! Cupcakes rock, thanks!
I think this cake recipe is what is used for your reese’s cake, too right? I love it! I use it all the time!
YES!! I use it all the time too 🙂
Can’t wait to try these, Jen! They look yummmmmmy! Brady is such a crack-up. I love his new look, it really suits him! Tell him I love him & Mason too!
Hey cutie! Remember when Mason used to wear that costume and it was 3 sizes too small?!! They both LOVE that suit 🙂 See you soon in the windy city! lol!
I love the cupcake liners! i need to get some paper ones, all I have are silicone ones which are great but not as funky as yours. I will definitely be trying these.
Also, your son looks so cute in his costume, and very intrigued by the cupcakes!!
I love crumb topping and these look AMAZING! Totally have to try these!
xxMK
Delightful Bitefuls