Cream Cheese Muffins

These cream cheese muffins are filled with a lightly sweetened cream cheese mixture and topped with a crunchy sweet golden streusel topping. I love to serve them warm out of the oven with a little bit of jam on them.

Why You’ll Love These Muffins!

There is so much great texture going on with this muffin recipe,   a tender muffin, creamy filling and a crunch topping.  When you bite into the muffin it is fun to discover a pocket of nice, yummy cream cheese.

Ingredients Needed

• Flour. I prefer unbleached all purpose flour
• Sugar
• Baking powder. Make sure it is freshS
• Salt
• Milk. I use what is in my fridge, usually 2 percent
• Vegetable oil. You can also use canola oil or any mild flavored oil
• Eggs
• Cream cheese. Be sure your cream cheese is softened at room temperature. 
• Butter. I use salted butter.

Streusel Topping. 

• Use softened butter and combine with flour and sugar.  I usually just use my fingers to rub the ingredients together until small little pebbles of streusel are formed. 
• Sprinkle generously over the muffins.  The more streusel topping the better.

• Bake.  Bake at 375 degrees F. for 25-30 minutes or until the streusel is nice and golden brown.  Cool in the pan for 5 minutes and then remove to a cooling rack.  Serve warm if possible.

Try these other delicious treats:

• Small Batch Cinnamon Roll Muffins
• Raspberry Muffins
• Apple Muffins with Crumb Topping
• Lemon Blueberry Muffins
• Small Batch Pumpkin Muffins

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Cream Cheese Muffins

Recipe From: Leigh Anne Wilkes

These cream cheese muffins are filled with a lightly sweetened cream cheese mixture and topped with a crunchy sweet golden streusel topping.

serves: 18 muffins

Prep:20 minutes minutes

Cook:20 minutes minutes

Total:40 minutes minutes

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Ingredients

• ▢ 3 cups flour
• ▢ 1 cup sugar
• ▢ 4 tsp baking powder
• ▢ 1 tsp salt
• ▢ 2/3 cup milk
• ▢ 1/2 cup vegetable oil
• ▢ 2 large eggs
• ▢ 8 ounces cream cheese softened
• ▢ 1 cup sugar

Topping

• ▢ 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
• ▢ 1 cup sugar
• ▢ 1/4 cup butter softened

Instructions

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees
• Line your muffin tin with cupcake liners
• Mix together the flour, 1 cup of sugar, baking powder, and salt in a large bowl
• In another bowl stir together milk, oil, and eggs
• Combine wet ingredients with the dry ingredients
• Stir until just moistened and combined. Don't over stir
• Combine cream cheese and 1 cup of sugar
• Gently mix half of the cream cheese/sugar mixture into the muffin batter.
• Fill muffin tins about 1/2 to 2/3 full with batter
• Spoon the remaining half of the cream cheese mixture onto the muffins, about a tablespoon per muffin, then with the back of a spoon push the mixture into each muffin

Topping:

• Combine ingredients
• Sprinkle generously over muffins batter.
• Bake 24 to 30 minutes until golden brown

Tips & Notes:

• The first time I made these cream cheese muffins I learned a lesson – you must use cupcake liners with this recipe.  If you don’t,  your streusel topping sticks to the pan and it’s almost impossible to get them out of the pan without totally destroying them. 
• To get even sized muffins I love using this scoop for evenly sized muffins.

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Nutrition Facts:

Calories: 349kcal (17%) Carbohydrates: 53g (18%) Protein: 4g (8%) Fat: 14g (22%) Saturated Fat: 9g (56%) Cholesterol: 40mg (13%) Sodium: 205mg (9%) Potassium: 152mg (4%) Fiber: 1g (4%) Sugar: 34g (38%) Vitamin A: 289IU (6%) Calcium: 68mg (7%) Iron: 1mg (6%)

* Disclaimer: All nutrition information are estimates only. Read full disclosure here.

Course:Breakfast

Cuisine:American

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