Butterscotch Pudding Cupcakes A.K.A. The Best Thing Ever!

Guys, I am about to change your life, with a cake recipe. Get into it.

Ingredients and directions

• 1 box of Yellow Cake Mix
• 1 3.9 oz package of butterscotch pudding
• 2 cups (16 oz. container) low-fat sour cream
• 5 large eggs
• 1 cup unsalted butter, melted
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 1 cup butterscotch chips

Firstly preheat your oven to 350, then mix the cake mix and pudding mix, and mix the melted butter, sour cream, eggs, and vanilla extract together in a separate bowl. This just makes the overall mixture more mixed. You don't HAVE to do this, but my OCD says I do...  Then you want to mix the two mixtures together and stir in the butterscotch chips. This is what the batter ought to look like.

I should note that this if half the batter, I only have one cupcake pan, so I had to work in batches. But anyways, you put them in for 30 minutes and take them out when your implement of choice (I use a pointy steak knife) comes out clean. Let them cool, then ice those bad boys with whatever sort of icing you want atop their deliciousness. I used whipped white icing and then melted the rest of the butterscotch chips I had left over (make sure to add a bit of milk otherwise the chips won't be pourable) to make a glaze that I drizzled over. Resulting in THESE BABIES!

So yeah, they taste freaking amazing and I love them so. But before you go off and wish you could have some, or if you don't like butterscotch, I have great news for you darling! 

Last year my mom and I were watching television when we saw a commercial for KFC and I began to have a craving for their chocolate cake. It's a dark chocolate bundt cake with a white drizzled glaze atop it. Now I had no desire to actually GO to a KFC for this cake, but as you may well know, Pinterest knows how to make anything, you just have to search for it. So I hunted down the recipe to make this glorious cake at home, and eventually, I found it HERE. 

If you went and checked that out you noticed that the recipe for that chocolate cake is just like my butterscotch pudding recipe, only tweaked a bit. Well that's because I had this idea after enjoying the KFC cake a couple of times, that because the recipe calls for a cake mix, and a pudding mix, one could put in ANY pudding mix flavor and ANY cake mix flavor for a whole assortment of flavors. I believe my first attempt was a white cake mix/vanilla pudding combo. Now realizing I wasn't going to be using the chocolate chips, which were instrumental in creating the moist texture in the cake as they melt into it. Well, mini marshmallows melt into things you cook them in, so don't fret if you aren't a fan, they disappear in the cake and you don't taste them, but you do get their amazing moisture in the cake. So in addition to the flavors I've listed above, here is a list of all the combinations I can recall making!

Strawberry (both mixes)

Coconut (both mixes)

Red Velvet cake mix/Cheesecake pudding mix

Yellow cake mix/Butterscotch pudding mix (no butterscotch chips, just marshmallows)

White cake mix/Pistachio pudding mix

Lemon (both mixes)

Lemon (both mixes, substituting fresh blueberries for marshmallows)

So basically, you can interchange the cake mix, pudding mix, and some sort of chip, marshmallow, or berry for any sort of flavor that you want.