pumpkin & spice cream cheese muffins
These are the perfect Thanksgiving snack everyone will enjoy! It is also a tasty way to use your leftover pumpkin pie filling and cream cheese...
yield
12 large muffins
prep time
25 Min
cook time
20 Min
method
Bake
Ingredients For pumpkin & spice cream cheese muffins
- CREAM CHEESE FILLING
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4 ozlight cream cheese, room temperature
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1/3 cconfectioners' sugar
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1 tsppure vanilla extract
- TOPPING • STREUSEL
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1/4 cbrown sugar, such as demerara
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3 Tbspunbleached all-purpose flour
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1/4 cwalnuts or pecans, chopped
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3 Tbspunsalted butter, melted
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1/4 tspground cinnamon
- BATTER
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1 1/2 cunbleached all-purpose flour
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1 tspground cinnamon
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1/2 tspground cloves
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1/2 tspfreshly grated nutmeg
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1/2 tspground ginger
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1/4 tspallspice
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1/2 tspbaking soda
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1/2 tspground himalayan sea salt
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2 lgfree-run eggs
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1 1/4 cpumpkin purée
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1 cgranulated sugar
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1/2 tsppure vanilla extract
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1/2 cgrapeseed oil
How To Make pumpkin & spice cream cheese muffins
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1Preheat oven to 350ºF. Grease or spray muffin or line with muffin liners; set aside. In a small bowl, mix together cream cheese mixture ingredients until smooth; set aside.
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2In medium bowl, mix together topping ingredients until crumbly; set aside.
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3In a large bowl, whisk together flour, spices, baking soda and salt. In another bowl, whisk together eggs, pumpkin purée, sugar, vanilla and oil. Pour pumpkin mixture into flour mixture. Mix with spatula until moistened.
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4Evenly divide half the batter among muffin cups. Place 2 tsp. of cream cheese filling in the center; fill with the remaining batter. Sprinkle about 1 tbsp. streusel on top of each muffin. Bake until risen and browned, about 20 to 25 minutes. Let cool 10 minutes in the pan.
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5Note: To freeze, put them in air-tight container. When time to eat, remove from freezer, transfer in 350ºF oven for 10 to 15 minutes to thaw and make topping crunchy.
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6To view this recipe on YouTube, click on this link >>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ripExpZQwm4
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