Cream Cheese Muffins

"Simple, moist, and delicious! This is a basic recipe you can use as-is, or alter to make other flavors by adding ingredients (chocolate chips and cocoa, poppy seeds, etc)."
 
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Ready In:
40mins
Ingredients:
13
Serves:
8
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ingredients

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directions

  • Mix filling ingredients with mixer.
  • Set aside.
  • Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
  • Oil bottoms only of medium muffin tins.
  • Beat eggs; stir in milk and oil; set aside.
  • Mix together flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt until well blended.
  • Pour liquids, all at once, into flour mixture; stir until moistened.
  • Fill muffin cups about 1/2 full.
  • Spoon 1 teaspoon filling onto batter.
  • Top with batter to 3/4 full.
  • Bake 30-35 minutes.
  • Don't brown; should be light in color.
  • Roll hot muffins in powdered sugar.

Questions & Replies

  1. HAS ANYONE EVER MADE THESE MUFFINS BY JUST USING A BOXED YELLOW CAKE MIX SUCH AS JIFFY YELLOW CAKE MIX AND FOLLOWING THE RECIPE FOR THE CREAM CHEESE BATTER AND FOLLOWING THIS RECIPE INSTRUCTION THE REST OF THE WAY
     
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Reviews

  1. I made the basic flavoring recipe. I forgot the oil. Also, I need more protein because I have gestational diabetes. So I added one extra egg in the batter. Anyway, by the time I was finished baking the cupcakes did not turn out as delicious as I expected. If I were to make this muffin again, then I would add chocolate chips or strawberries as the main flavor point. I probably will make these again with those aforementioned flavorings or sweet avacado and bacon. Who knows? I am pregnant and hungry.
     
  2. I am so used to creating my own recipes but my friend really wanted to try this. I absolutely have loved how it came out. Unlike my fellow reviewers, my batter was thick and rich! However, my filling is where I ran into trouble. For users like myself who are making this for the first time, if you do not have a mixer, in addition to softening the cream cheese put it in the microwave for about thirty seconds and then hand whip whip a fork then add the other ingredients.
     
  3. As sugar muffins, these tasted wonderful, but since the recipe is for cream cheese muffins, I must say they need a little something more. Fawn512 was right, batter was thick and filling was very runny. I think I will use a whole block of cream cheese the next time I make these. Thank you for posting.
     
  4. The batter was very thick and oily like a thick glob. While the cream cheese mixture was very runny like milk. So instead of sandwiching the Cream cheese mixture. I layered it (like a marbled cupcake. My cupcakes didn't domed as Kittencal's and the outcome was a bit oily. But the taste and texture was superb! Thanks for the recipe
     
  5. Oh my goodness Mizzmother...these are one of THE BEST muffins I have had in a long time...so buttery, moist and delicious, and talk about getting a rise...oh my did they ever rise! The only thing that I changed, was I used half and half cream instead of milk, (I am watching my calories) ha...ha!...wonderful muffins...I will be making these again, and again, and again...5 stars plus, all the way. Thank you for a wonderful muffin recipe, keep up the good work! ;-)
     
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Tweaks

  1. I added olive oil instead of vegetable oil, and orange zest instead of lemon zest, also I added an extra egg yoke
     
  2. I added an extra egg in the batter.
     
  3. Oh my goodness Mizzmother...these are one of THE BEST muffins I have had in a long time...so buttery, moist and delicious, and talk about getting a rise...oh my did they ever rise! The only thing that I changed, was I used half and half cream instead of milk, (I am watching my calories) ha...ha!...wonderful muffins...I will be making these again, and again, and again...5 stars plus, all the way. Thank you for a wonderful muffin recipe, keep up the good work! ;-)
     

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