Krusteaz Cinnamon Swirl Crumb Cake and Muffin Mix

I love this Krusteaz Cinnamon Swirl Crumb Cake & Muffin mix. I don't mind making things from scratch, but for less than $2 on Amazon, I can keep some boxes of these in my panty and quickly whip up a non complicated yet delicious dessert. It is so easy to make, and the outcome is consistent every time I make it. I does really well being made in my convection toaster oven and I can follow the time and temp to a t, and it turns out perfectly. On the back of one of the boxes there is a recipe to make it Le Leche, where instead of making a middle layer of crumb (with some also sprinkled on top) as per original directions, you just mix everything together and bake it. Extra easy! Once done, you poke holes all over and pour a can of condensed sweetened milk on top. Put in fridge to set. OH MY.. if you haven't tried it that way, it really makes this an indulgent, sweet, gorgeous looking cake. Yum yum yum! I haven't tried this in muffin form- I seem to just like making the cake. "Easy to make, hard to put down". Indeed! There is a Gluten Free option, which is just as good.. the box is blue and in giant letters will state Gluten free. This is not gluten free.

So easy, just stir egg, oil and a bit of water to the batter, which is in one envelope, spread half of it in a baking pan, dust half of the cinnamon mix on top and then drop the remaining batter by spoonsful on that. Spread the cinnamon on top and draw a fine knife blade through it to create swirls. It smells so good while baking and tastes even better. I have been using this mix for a few years and love it. I do not like cake. (I know, that's kind of un-American), but I love this crumb cake -- called coffee cake where I grew up in the upper midwest. Delicious.

First of all the product is inexpensive, arrived in good condition and very fresh. The needed ingredients are simple. My tip, add 1/4 cup of real butter. ** Real butter makes the cake moist, fluffy, and adds flavor, especially enhanced the cinnamon and created a delicious top layer as well. This mix is easy enough for anyone to use. My husband loved it so much he ate most of it in two sittings. I only got one piece to enjoy lol.

Love this muffin mix. I'm not too crazy about cinnamon but this mix makes it taste great and it doesn't have too much on it so it's easy for me to love. My son absolutely loves it.

I rarely like mixes that are add water only. I find the flavor is off but more importantly the consistency is not the same as the mixes where you add eggs and oil along with the water. I think the water only mixes are more rubbery. I guess I didn’t read the details and it was a surprise that this was a “quick” mix. So it was a pleasant surprise that it came out tasting really good. It rose nicely and was soft and light. It lasted one day and I was tempted to bake the second box right away. Of course the streusel topping is addictive and crunchy and the combination of soft and crunchy is sublime.

This made a great coffee cake. When I put part of it in the pan and “sprinkled on” (you can’t sprinkle it really), I added extra cinnamon and brown sugar before putting the rest on top. It was excellent! I have some tips/observations: you need an 8x8 pan not 9x9; it was done after about 30 minutes not 40 like it says; and, the mixture is really thick and impossible to spread around. I sprayed the pan with nonstick spray and the mixture just slid around. I did the best I could with it, and it sort of all baked together perfectly. I definitely recommend it!

There is a family recipe that dad and I used to make every now and then. We took unbaked biscuits and dipped them into melted butter and cinnamon sugar mix. A few years back, I was diagnosed with a wheat allergy. Biscuits and cinnamon rolls were lost to me. Recently, I saw this item and got excited to give it a shot. It took a bit of effort from myself and mom to get it ready, but when it was done, wow! It tastes exactly like the cinnamon biscuits! I am in awe of getting this flavor back in my life.

I replaced water by milk and used about 40% of cinnamon mix and still it was very sweet because of cinnamon mix. Cake mix itself is not very sweet (that's cool!!!). The batter was not good looking, it was rather like a starch paste. But finally the cake was spongy and soft. I noticed that all american sweets,cakes and cake mix contain at least 30% more sugar than in other countries. That's so bad for health. Bake yourself and add a normal amount of sugar to stay healthy and happy.