No Sugar Added Pumpkin Cream Cheese Muffins

Submitted by MandAs

"A pumpkin muffin with a cream cheese filling. Low in fat and made with no artificial sweeteners."

 

• Ready In: 50mins
• Ingredients: 13
• Yields: 12 muffins
• Serves: 12

ingredients

• Muffins

• 473.18 ml flour
• 4.92 ml cinnamon
• 2.46 ml pumpkin pie spice
• 4.92 ml baking soda
• 4.92 ml baking powder
• 236.59 ml canned pumpkin puree
• 170.09 g frozen apple juice concentrate, thawed (reserve 1 tbsp. for filling)
• 2 eggs, beaten (or 2 equivalent egg substitute)
• 2.46 ml salt

• Filling (use reserved 1 tablespoon juice concentrate)

• 226.79 g reduced-fat cream cheese
• 1 egg, beaten (or 1 equivalent egg substitute)
• 14.79 ml flour
• 4.92 ml orange zest

directions

1. Combine flour, spices, soda, powder, and salt.
2. In a separate bowl bland pumpkin, eggs, and juice concentrate completely.
3. Add dry ingredients to wet until they are just moistened. Do not over mix.
4. In a blender or food processor, blend filling ingredients together thoroughly. This is easier if they are allowed to come to room temperature first.
5. Fill 1/3 of muffin cups or tins with muffin batter. Spoon a layer of filling on top. Finish with another layer of muffin batter so that cups are just about full. Bake at 350 degrees for 25-30 minutes.
6. Alternative Preparation: Get a complete fat free muffin by skipping the filling and adding ½ cup of raisins to the mix for a chewy, slightly sweeter muffin.

Reviews

[mliss29]

I like these, but they are subtle. I used too much batter in the first 1/3, so I had to make another quarter batch of batter to complete the tops. I think I forgot the flour in the filling, so maybe that's why it wasn't "filling" but a coating? I don't know, but they taste good. I may try pineapple juice next time to make them sweeter. Reviewed for Healthy Choices ABC tag.

 

[Nikoma]

These are good, Muffins look beautiful, but they're a bit bland for my taste. The orange zest really makes the recipe. I really didn't end up tasting the pumpkin much. I would suggest not using the paper liners and instead just greasing the muffin cups because the liners really stuck. I'll mke these again and fiddle with them a bit.