Easiest Way to Prepare Yummy Pumpkin Cream Cheese Muffins

Pumpkin Cream Cheese Muffins. These Pumpkin Cream Cheese Muffins are moist spiced pumpkin muffins topped with sweet cream cheese that melts into them as they bake. Last, the cream cheese mixture makes a cheesecake topping on the muffin, not a filling. I liked this recipe alot better once I realized that!

Pumpkin Cream Cheese Muffins are moist, delicious and perfectly spiced! These Chocolate Chip Pumpkin Muffins are always such a hit on my blog, I knew I would love this cream cheese swirl version! Pumpkin Cream Cheese Muffins - hands down one of my favorite fall pumpkin recipes ever! You can cook Pumpkin Cream Cheese Muffins using 18 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Pumpkin Cream Cheese Muffins

1. It's of Cream Cheese Filling:.
2. It's 1-8 ounce of package cream cheese, at room temperature.
3. You need 1/3 cup of granulated white sugar.
4. You need 1 of large egg, at room temperature.
5. You need 1/2 teaspoon of pure vanilla extract.
6. Prepare of Pumpkin Muffins:.
7. Prepare 1 1/2 cups of all-purpose flour.
8. Prepare 1 cup of granulated white sugar.
9. You need 1 teaspoon of baking powder.
10. You need 1/2 teaspoon of baking soda.
11. You need 1 teaspoon of ground cinnamon.
12. You need 1/2 teaspoon of ground ginger.
13. It's 1/4 teaspoon of ground cloves.
14. Prepare 1/2 teaspoon of salt.
15. It's 1/2 cup of unsalted butter, softened.
16. Prepare 2 of large eggs, at room temperature.
17. You need 1 teaspoon of pure vanilla extract.
18. Prepare 3/4 cup of solid packed, canned pumpkin puree.

Baking these makes the house smell incredible! We were at soccer practice when a storm rolled in. How long will Pumpkin Cream Cheese Swirl Muffins last? Well, that is an easy question to answer for me-a couple of hours, if that!

Pumpkin Cream Cheese Muffins step by step

1. Pumpkin Muffins: Preheat your oven to 350 Place your oven rack in the middle of your oven. Butter or spray each muffin cup with a non-stick vegetable spray.
2. Cream Cheese Filling: In your electric mixer, or with a hand mixer, beat the cream cheese until smooth. Add the sugar, egg, and vanilla extract and beat until creamy and smooth. Set aside while you make the muffin batter..
3. Pumpkin Muffins: In the bowl of your electric mixer, or with a hand mixer, beat to combine the flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, ground spices, and salt. Add the butter, eggs, vanilla extract, and pumpkin puree. Beat the wet and dry ingredients together at medium speed until the batter is smooth and satiny, about 30-60 seconds. Scrape down the sides of the bowl as needed..
4. Fill the muffin cups evenly (about 2/3 full) with the batter using two spoons or an ice cream scoop. Make a well in the center of the batter of each muffin and then spoon a few tablespoons of the cream cheese filling into the well..
5. Place in the oven and bake for about 18 - 20 minutes, or until the cream cheese filling has set and the pumpkin feels springy to the touch (a toothpick inserted into the pumpkin part of the muffin will come out clean.) Place on a wire rack to cool..
6. Makes about 12 reg.
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But, I know what you mean. Pumpkin and cream cheese were meant to be together…and these amazingly delicious pumpkin cream cheese muffins prove it! Light and fluffy, the pumpkin muffin is perfection, and that delightful cream cheese center is like the icing on the cake. Pumpkin Cream Cheese Muffins are a celebration of fall flavors in a light, fluffy muffin. The surprise sweet cream cheese filling is always a hit!