Cream Cheese Muffins


Cream Cheese Muffins

A few years ago, Quinn came up with this recipe as a special treat for me. I love, love, love all things cream cheese. Somehow, the recipe got buried among the countless recipes I’ve collected. Then, the other morning, I woke up to find that Quinn had not only unearthed the recipe but had the muffins baking in the oven.

If you love cream cheese like we do, these are the muffins for you. That is certainly the predominant flavor. Cream cheese is mixed in the batter, plus a dollop of it inside for an extra burst of it. Of course, what makes these even better to me is the sprinkling of pecans on top. Yes, he definitely came up with these just for me.

These are usually made in muffin tins, but this time Quinn used mini loaf pans. I think that size would be great for gifts, which is especially of note now that the holidays are upon us.

Quinn’s Cream Cheese Muffins



Muffins

  • 3 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 4 teaspoons baking powder
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 2/3 cup milk
  • 1/2 vegetable oil
  • 2 large eggs
  • 8 ounces cream cheese, softened
  • 1 cup sugar
Preheat oven to 375 °F. Grease/spray a 12-cup muffin tin and set aside.

Combine flour, 1 cup of sugar, baking powder, and salt in a large bowl. Make a well in the center.

Stir together milk, oil, and eggs. Pour into well in the dry ingredients. Stir just until dry ingredients are moistened.

Combine cream cheese and 1 cup of sugar. Fold about half of this mixture into the muffin batter.

Spoon batter into greased muffin pans, about 1/2 to 2/3 full. Spoon the remaining cream cheese mixture onto the muffins, pressing the mix into each muffin with a spoon handle.


Topping

  • 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 1/4 cup butter, softened
  • 1/4 cup finely chopped pecans
 Combine ingredients. Sprinkle generously over muffins. Bake 24 to 30 minutes until golden brown.


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Coral
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November 13, 2008 at 11:22 pm

I tried this recipe and it was a complete hit. I wanted to replicate the cream muffins I buy from Publix and I’ve tried a few, this one is the closest and it is absolutely delicious. I took the liberty to witch the vegetable oil for 3/4 of a cup of apple sauce and it didn’t change the texture. Try it!!