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pumpkin muffins with cream cheese topping

Pumpkin Cream Cheese Muffins

These are soft, delicious pumpkin spice muffins topped with smooth cream cheese and pumpkin seeds. Perfect for the entire fall/winter season.

Course Breakfast, Dessert, Snack
Cuisine American, Canadian
Keyword cheesecake, pumpkin cream cheese muffins, pumpkin muffins, pumpkin spice
Servings 12 muffins

Ingredients

  • 2 c. all purpose flour
  • 1 tsp baking soda
  • 1/4 tsp baking powder
  • 1 pinch salt
  • 1 tsp. cinnamon
  • 1/4 tsp nutmeg
  • 1/8 tsp ground ginger
  • 2 large eggs beaten
  • 3/4 c. brown sugar
  • 1/2 c. butter melted
  • 1 c. pumpkin puree
  • 1/3 c. water
  • 6 Tbsp pumpkin seeds optional

Cream Cheese Topping:

  • 1/2 brick cream cheese (4oz)
  • 2-1/2 Tbsp icing sugar
  • 1/2 tsp vanilla
  • 1/4 cup whipping cream

Instructions

  1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F, and line 12 muffin cups with cupcake or tulip muffins liners.

  2. In a large mixing bowl, sift together the flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt, and spices. Make a well in the centre and set aside.

  3. In a separate bowl, combine the beaten eggs, brown sugar, melted butter, pumpkin puree and water. Whisk to combine, and pour this into the dry ingredients. Stir until the dry and wet ingredients are just combined and moistened (do not overmix). Divide into prepared muffins cups. Sprinkle generously with pumpkin seeds.

  4. In a medium sized mixing bowl or the bowl of an electric mixer, beat the cream cheese and sugar until smooth. Add the vanilla and whipping cream and and whip until thick and fluffy.

  5. Spoon the cream cheese filling into a piping bag or the corner of a ziploc bag. Snip the top or corner of the bag off with scissors, and pipe a little bit of the cream cheese mixture down into the batter of each muffin, finishing on top with about a nickel or quarter sized dollop of cream cheese in the centre of each.

  6. Bake for 20-25 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the largest muffin comes out clean (test the baked muffin, not the cream cheese). Cool on wire racks.