Pumpkin Cream Cheese Muffins - Coffee Cake Texture

Oh...My....God. These are friggin delicious. Seriously. I found a recipe allrecipes.com for these, and then tweaked it to fit my own tastes. For the original recipe, click here: http://allrecipes.com/recipe/pumpkin-cream-cheese-muffins/ First off, it was super confusing to pay attention to what went where in the format I found it in. So let me break it down for ya. Topping: 4 1/2 tablespoons of flour 5 tablespoons of white sugar 1 teaspoon of ground cinnamon 3 tablespoons of butter I'm all about making things easy. And my electric mixer broke. Tear. $2 mixer at Walmart on black friday, you are mine. Put all the topping ingredients in a bowl with the chunk of cold butter on top. Throw the bowl in the microwave until the butter is melted. Stir it all together and put it in the fridge while you make everything else. Filling: 8 ounces of cream cheese 1 egg 2 teaspoons vanilla extract 3 1/2 tablespoons of brown sugar Here's what I did: I put the chunk of cream cheese in a bowl and nuked it in the microwave for about 45 seconds so it got gooey. I don't prepare to cook an hour in advance. I'm frickin busy. Everything comes straight out of the fridge and into my cooking. So if it's supposed to be softened, it goes in the microwave. I don't care what the recipe says. Stir your gooey cream cheese until the lumps are gone. Or use your electric mixer, if yours isn't sadly broken. Add the other ingredients and blend it all together. Set aside. Muffin mix: 2 1/2 cups of flour 2 cups of white sugar 2 teaspoons baking powder 2 1/2 teaspoons of ground cinnamon 1/2 teaspoon of salt 2 eggs 1 1/2 cups canned pureed pumpkin (you can puree your own pumpkin if you want. I don't have time for that shit) 3 teaspoons vanilla extract 1/3 cup olive oil (I know, OLIVE? Yeah. Just do it.) Throw all that stuff in a big bowl and mix well. It will look like orange puke when you're done. Don't taste it, trust me. Turn the oven on to 375. Why didn't I tell you that in the beginning? Because I always forget to pre-heat. That's why. Line your muffin pan with cupcake cups or grease it if you're genius enough to get stuff out of those damn pans on your own. Fill each cup halfway with the pumpkin mixture. Add a tablespoon full of the cream cheese mixture on top of that. (The original recipe says not to let the cream cheese mix touch the sides of the cups. Uh yeah right.) Just drop it in there and let it go where it wants to. Crumble the topping on top. Bake for 20-25 minutes. Take a bite. Marvel at the yummy muffin while you do the HOT HOT HOT blowing while the food is already in your mouth technique. Vow to let it cool all the way before you take another bite. Break the vow. Repeat.