I saw the box and decided the picture looked good when I was shopping hungry. I try not to shop on an empty stomach because I buy random things not on my list but this was a Gold mine. I'm so glad I bought it because it is my favorite muffin I've ever had. I love muffins as you can probably tell. I usually stick with berry muffins or chocolate ones, but now I'm a cinnamon streusel muffin girl. I can eat these any time of the day they're so good. We served them for desert after dinner, I stored them and ate them for breakfast the next day, and then a mid-day snack in the afternoon. Then I was sad that I ate them all and wanted more. I can eat 2 of them together anytime like a little mini-meal. This is no longer a Hungry shopping item I see and purchase, now it's on the grocery list we make before we go to the store.

This is a Cinnamon Streusel Cinnabon Betty Crocker Muffin Mix with an added Quick Bread Mix recipe on the back of the box. I didn't make the bread but I made the muffins. It makes 12 muffins. There are also recipes on the box for mini muffins, Jumbo muffins, and Reduced fat No cholesterol muffins for whatever your diet needs are.

You need Ingredients:
3/4 cup milk
1/4 cup Vegetable Oil
2 Eggs

Instructions:

1. Heat oven to 425 degrees F, Grease your muffin pan or put down muffin cups.
I prefer to use the foil muffin cups and we sprayed just a pinch on pam in them so they wouldn't stick to the cup when we got the muffin out of it.

2. Stir int Muffin mix, milk, oil, and eggs until blended (batter may be lumpy) that is because it has little balls of cinnamon in the batter. Then pour the batter into your muffin cups or pan.

3. Sprinkle the Streusel over the batter and press it lightly into the batter. Make sure that it is into the batter because if you don't get it in the muffin mix then it might spill onto the pan and burn. I had some burnt Streusel on my pan in some spots because we didn't get it on there good enough.
The Streusel is a a consistency of big chunks and flakes of cinnamon and sugary stuff. It's like crumbles you put on top of the batter that bakes onto the muffin top the oven.

4. Bake it for 16-21 minutes, cool it for 5 minutes. Then comes the fun part of eating it.

Ingredients:

Sugar, Enriched Flour Bleached (Wheat Flour, Niacin, Iron, Thiamin Mononitrate, Riboflavin, Folic Acid), Partially
Hydrogenated Soybean and/or Cottonseed Oil, Modified Corn Starch, Brown Sugar, Vital Wheat Gluten, Baking Soda,
Sodium Aluminum Phosphate, Cinnamon, Salt, Propylene Glycol, Monoesters of Fatty Acids, Corn Starch, Mono and
Diglycerides, Sodium Stearoyl Lactylate, Citric Acid, Xanthan Gum, Cellulose Gum, Natural and Artificial Flavor,
Cream, Artificial Color.

Nutrition from the box:

Serving size is 1 muffin prepared (36g mix) and the box makes 12 muffins total. Read the fine print at the bottom and it has these figures as prepared. (mix plus ingredients)
Calories: 180
Calories from Fat: 60
Total Fat: 9g (this is prepared not just the mix)
Saturated Fat: 2g
Polyunsaturated Fat: 3g
Monounsaturated Fat: 2.5g
Sodium: 240mg
Carbs: 29g
Sugars: 17g
Protein: 3g

Calcium: 2%
Iron: 4%
Thiamin(B1): 6%
Riboflavin(B2): 4%
Niacin(B3): 2%
Folic Acid: 4%

My tips:
I think these are great muffins as they are but I like to cut them in half and add butter to them. I like butter personally but maybe others don't. I think they're a lot better with the butter but not too much or it can take some taste away from the muffin and these are too good to waste the taste.

My child:
She is 6 but she didn't like it, but she isn't a big fan of cinnamon. I guess they're not for everyone, but my husband doesn't like cinnamon that much and he loved them also. He said we need to get more of these the first bite he took.
My daughter said the top (streusel part) was too hard for her so she didn't want to eat it.

Homemade or from a Box?:
I gave one to my mom and she asked me if my husband made it because it was so good. (she asked if he made it because I can't cook and he does all the cooking for me) She had no idea that it was from a box, so I should have said he made it. Ha Ha But they're so good that you wouldn't know it was a box mix.

Texture:

The top of the muffin is like a hard crust, but it's not too hard. I think it really depends on how long you cook them as to how hard the muffin top gets. So if you make it once and it turns out too hard, the next time just don't cook it as long.
The center of the muffin is very soft and moist. It's a good combination of soft and crunchy. The little balls of cinnamon that you'll see in the batter turn out good when they're cooked. It's not too much cinnamon in one spot but enough to taste it's cinnamon flavor. They're not crunchy either inside the muffin which is good, nobody wants crunchy balls in a muffin.

Overall:

I love this, it's great for me. I can eat it at anytime during the day and it makes me happy. I would say if you like cinnamon and even if you don't love it, then go try it. You might discover you are a muffin lover after all.