These muffins are packed with delicious pumpkin spice flavors and swirled with sweetened cream cheese, making these the perfect muffins for fall.
Course Breakfast
Prep Time 25minutes
Cook Time 20minutes
Total Time 45minutes
Servings 18muffins
Equipment
Standard size muffin pan
Ingredients
2½cupsflour
1tablespoonbaking powder
1teaspoonsalt
2tablespoonspumpkin pie spice
115 ounce canpumpkin
1cup brown sugar,packed
1cupgranulated sugar
3largeeggs
¾cupvegetable oil
1½tablespoonvanilla
Cream Cheese Filling:
8ouncescream cheese,softened to room temperature
¼cupgranulated sugar
1egg yolk
2teaspoonsvanilla
Instructions
Preheat oven to 375°F. Place paper baking cups into the muffin pan. Set aside.
In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder, salt, and pumpkin pie spice. Set aside.
In a large bowl, whisk together the pumpkin, brown sugar, granulated sugar, eggs, vegetable oil, and vanilla.
Whisk the flour mixture into the pumpkin mixture, mixing until combined and smooth. Do not over mix.
Cream Cheese Filling:
In a medium bowl, beat the softened cream cheese until smooth. Add the sugar, egg yolk, and vanilla and beat until well combined and smooth.
Put the filling in a small sealable bag and snip off a small portion of the corner (make a snip about ¼-inch wide, but no bigger). Set it aside.
Assembling the Muffins:
Fill muffin tins ⅓ full with pumpkin batter. Add to this a thin layer of filling (about 1 tablespoon). Add more pumpkin batter almost all the way to the top. Drizzle a little more filling over the batter in a circular pattern. Use a toothpick to gently swirl the filling with the pumpkin. Don't mix too much, or it will all blend together. Each muffin tin should be full in order to get that nice dome top.
Bake for 20 to 25 minutes. Insert a toothpick in the center of one muffin. If the toothpick comes out clean, the muffins are done. Allow them to cool for 10 minutes, then remove the muffins from the pan to finish cooling on a cooling rack.
Store in an airtight container in the fridge. If you want them warmed up after being in the refrigerator, heat them in the microwave for about 15 - 20 seconds.