Welcome fall with its blanket of beautiful colors, crisp mornings and pumpkin muffins 🙂 Just the smell of these filling the house as they bake puts me in a more relaxed mood. So slow down, grab a cup of tea and enjoy one of these delicious muffins.
Pumpkin Cream cheese Muffins (makes 24 muffins)
Preheat oven to 325F. Line or grease two (12 muffin) pans.
Muffin Batter
- 3 1/3 cup flour
- 2 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 2 tsp cinnamon
- 2 tsp pumpkin pie spice mix
- 1 tsp ground cloves
Sift above ingredients into a large bowl
- 2 cups pumpkin puree ( canned or fresh)
- 4 eggs
- 1 cup vegetable oil
- 2 cups sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
Wisk the above ingredients in a medium bowl until smooth. Pour the wet mixture over the dry and mix well. Fill each muffin liner 3/4 full. Divide the cream cheese filling evenly between the muffins. The cream cheese filling will spread out while baking.
Cream cheese filling
- 8 oz cream cheese at room temperature
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1 tbsp flour
- 1 egg
- 1 tbsp orange zest
Bake 30 mins. Enjoy !
Huzzah for cream cheese muffins! And married with pumpkin? Yes please! (ps – just subscribed to your gorge blog).
Yey! Thank you
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Wow!!! Thank you so much, I very much appreciate it!
You are very welcome! 🙂
These look amazing! Sound so yummy 🙂 x
Thank you Lizzie!
Yum yum! The flavours and textures look and sound great! Very interested in that cheese layer too! 🙂
Thank you! They are delicious
Scrumptious recipe, can’t wait to give it a try 😀
Thank you!
I made a muffin similar to yours from King Arthur Flour. This is a great combination and looks like I will have to try your version. I am ready for Fall recipes 🙂
What header is yours under? I will check it out!:)
Will have to check it out, my Kids love them
Such pretty and tasty cupcakes! Love the cheese layer. 🙂
Thank you Ronit! Pure fall taste
oh my goodness, love this!
Thank You 🙂