These Pumpkin Cream Cheese Muffins combine moist and delicious pumpkin spice muffins with a delicious cream cheese filling.  They are the perfect breakfast or anytime treat and they stay moist for several days, but don’t worry they won’t last that long.

Pumpkin Cream Cheese Muffins.

We all know how cream cheese and pumpkin complement one another, in this perfect pumpkin roll, these pumpkin spice cupcakes with cream cheese frosting, and this marbled pumpkin cheesecake, so why not make lots of pumpkin cream cheese recipes.  I wanted to make something that I could categorize as breakfast, yet be so good that I could eat it as a dessert too.  So here you have it…Pumpkin Cream Cheese Muffins!

I wanted my muffins to be as yummy as a cupcake but denser and more filling like a hearty breakfast muffin and that’s just what I achieved here.

Pumpkin Muffins.

CREAM CHEESE FILLING INGREDIENTS

The cream cheese filling takes just 5 minutes to mix and it gets swirled into the top of the pumpkin batter.  It consists of:

  • 1 8-ounce package cream cheese, room temperature
  • 1 large egg yolk, room temperature
  • 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
  • 1/4 cup powdered sugar

PUMPKIN BATTER INGREDIENTS

The pumpkin filling takes 10 minutes to mix and spoon into the muffin holders.  It consists of:

  • 1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour, aerated, and spoon and leveled*
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 1 tablespoon pumpkin pie spice
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons cinnamon
  • 1/2 cup dark brown sugar, lightly packed
  • 1/4 cup granulated sugar
  • 1 cup pure pumpkin puree (not pumpkin pie filling)**
  • 2 large eggs, room temperature
  • 1/2 cup canola oil
  • 4 tablespoons half & half or milk
  • 1/2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
Pumpkin Cream Cheese Muffins.

6 EASY STEPS TO MAKING PUMPKIN CREAM CHEESE MUFFINS

  1. Mix up the cream cheese filling and set aside.
  2. Whisk together the dry ingredients and set aside.
  3. Combine the sugars and wet ingredients, and mix in the dry ingredients.
  4. Add the pumpkin batter to the muffin cups.
  5. Add dollops of cream cheese filling to the pumpkin batter and lightly swirl with a toothpick.
  6. Bake.
Pumpkin Cream Cheese Muffins.

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Pumpkin Cream Cheese Muffins

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  • Author: Cindy Gibbs
  • Prep Time: 20 minutes
  • Cook Time: 22 -23 minutes
  • Total Time: 18 minute
  • Yield: 13 to 14 muffins 1x
  • Category: Breakfast/Breads
  • Method: Bake
  • Cuisine: American

Description

These Pumpkin Cream Cheese Muffins combine moist and delicious pumpkin spice muffins with a delicious cream cheese filling.  They are the perfect breakfast or anytime treat and they stay moist for several days, but don’t worry they won’t last that long.


Ingredients

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CREAM CHEESE FILLING

  • 1 (8-ounce) package cream cheese, room temperature
  • 1 large egg yolk, room temperature
  • 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
  • 1/4 cup powdered sugar

PUMPKIN BATTER

  • 1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour, aerated, and spoon and leveled*
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 1 tablespoon pumpkin pie spice
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons cinnamon
  • 1/2 cup dark brown sugar, lightly packed
  • 1/4 cup granulated sugar
  • 1 cup pure pumpkin puree (not pumpkin pie filling)**
  • 2 large eggs, room temperature
  • 1/2 cup canola oil
  • 4 tablespoons half & half or milk
  • 1/2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract


Instructions

CREAM CHEESE FILLING

  1. Add the cream cheese to a medium bowl and mix with an electric mixer until the cream cheese is very light and free of any lumps.  Add the egg yolk, vanilla, and powdered sugar and mix until thoroughly combined.  Set aside.

PUMPKIN BATTER

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.  Line muffin tins with paper liners or spray them.  Set aside.
  2. Whisk or sift together the flour, baking soda, salt and pumpkin pie spice in a bowl and set aside.
  3. In a large bowl, using a mixer or a wooden spoon, combine the sugars, pumpkin, eggs, oil, half & half, and vanilla.  Add the dry ingredients and mix just to incorporate the dry ingredients.  Do not over mix.
  4. Divide the pumpkin batter equally between 13 to 14 muffin cups, making sure you don’t fill them over 2/3 full.  Divide the cream cheese filling equally between all of the muffin cups, making sure the cups are no more than 3/4 full.  I used about 1 tablespoon of cream cheese filling per muffin cup.  You might have some cream cheese filling leftover, but try not to overfill the muffin cups.  Using a toothpick or a knife, lightly swirl the cream cheese filling into the pumpkin batter.
  5. Bake the muffins until the tops spring back when you indent one with your finger, or a toothpick comes out clean, about 22 to 23 minutes, depending on your oven.
  6. Allow muffins to cool for 5 minutes.  Remove them from the pans allow them to cool completely on a wire rack.  Store muffins in an airtight container.
  7. These muffins will stay fresh and moist for 3-4 days in an airtight container.

Notes

  • *When flour stays in a bag or container for long, it becomes compacted.  When measuring flour, run a fork through the container or bag of flour several times to aerate the flour before measuring it.  Then use a large spoon and scoop spoonfuls of flour into the measuring cup until it is slightly over the top.  Use the edge of a knife and run across the top of the measuring cup to level it off.
  • **If you use freshly cooked pumpkin from a sugar pumpkin for this recipe, make sure you drain the pumpkin puree to remove any excess moisture before using it.  Also, pumpkin pie filling is different than pumpkin puree.  Pumpkin puree is pure pumpkin pulp with no added sugars or spices.  Pumpkin pie filling already has the sugars and spices added.  In this recipe, we use pumpkin puree and add our own sugar and spices.
  • To freeze muffins, wrap them securely and freeze for up to 3 months.  Thaw overnight in the refrigerator.  Wrap muffins in a paper towel and warm them in a microwave for a few seconds.