Banana Cream Cheese Muffins With Crumb Topping

Boomette's Note:

From the blog : How to Simplify

• Total Time: 30 mins
• Prep Time: 10 mins
• Cook Time: 20 mins

Ingredients:

Serves: 12

Yield: 12.0 muffins

For the muffins

• 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 3 bananas, mashed
• 3/4 cup white sugar
• 1 egg
• 1/3 cup butter, melted
• 1 tablespoon vanilla extract

For the cream cheese filling

• 4 ounces cream cheese, softened
• 1/4 cup sugar
• 1 egg

For the crumb topping

• 1/3 cup light brown sugar
• 1/4 cup all-purpose flour
• 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1 tablespoon butter, melted

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Grease muffin cups or line with muffin liners.
2. Combine 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt.
3. In a separate bowl, mash the bananas and then beat together the bananas, sugar, egg, melted butter and vanilla extract.
4. Combine banana mixture with the flour mixture until just moistened.
5. Spoon batter into prepared muffin cups (leave a little batter to top the cream cheese filling).
6. Create the cream cheese filling by mixing together all three of the ingredients. Pour a tablespoonful onto the batter in the muffin cups. Top the cream cheese with the remaining muffin batter.
7. Create the topping: use a fork and mix together the brown sugar, 1/4 cup all-purpose flour, cinnamon and butter until crumbly. Sprinkle mixture over the batter.
8. Bake for 18 to 20 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean.

Reviews

[Marie Nixon]

These are terrific muffins. They are a little labor intensive since you need to put together 3 components; the muffin batter, the cream cheese filling and then crumb topping. The recipe says prep time is 10 minutes but for me it was closer to 20 minutes.

[UmmBinat]

Nice. I'm sure they are perfect with my favourite health food shop alcohol free vanilla but I just ran out and made these on short notice. I made ours gluten free following Any Kind Muffins (Gluten Free) with all of the additional ingredients called for here, such as butter and extra salt. It wasn't bananay enough with half the amount of banana (I added some topical cocktail smoothie that had banana in it to make up the difference), something I don't recommend. Use the full amount of bananas. I may make these again with all the ingredients and taste good cream cheese.