Pumpkin Cheesecake Muffins
Ready In: 30 mins
Serves: 12
Yields: 12 muffins
Ingredients
Filling
- 1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese, softened
- 1 egg
- 2 tablespoons sugar
- 2 tablespoons grated lemon peel
Muffins
- 1 (14 ounce) package pillsbury pumpkin quick bread mix
- 3⁄4 cup milk
- 2 tablespoons crisco vegetable oil
- 1 egg
- 3 tablespoons butter, melted
- 1⁄4 cup pecans, chopped
Directions
- Heat oven to 350. Spray muffin cups with no-stick spray.
- Beat cream cheese in a medium mixing bowl with electric mixer until soft. Add egg, sugar and lemon peel, beat until smooth.
- Empty pumpkin bread mix into large bowl. REMOVE 3/4 cup of the mix & set aside for topping. Add milk, oil & egg to remaining mix in large bowl. Stir until blended.
- Fill each muffin cup with about 1/4 cup batter. Make indentation in batterwith small measuring spoon sprayed with no-stick spray. Put 1 heaping tablespoon cream cheese mixture in center of muffin.
- Add melted butter to reserved dry mix. Stir with fork until crumbly. Add pecans. Crumble about 1 tablespoon over each muffin.
- Bake for 20 minutes. Cool 10 minutes in pan, then remove & cool on baking rack.
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