Cream Cheese Muffins
With swirls of cream cheese and a moist crumb, these Cream Cheese Muffins will be your new go-to muffin recipe!
Servings: 12
Calories: 451kcal
Ingredients
Cream Cheese Swirl
- 1 package (8 ounces) cream cheese, room temperature
- ½ cup (62.5 g) confectioners' sugar
Muffins
- ½ package (4 ounces) cream cheese, room temperature
- ¾ cup (1 ½ sticks / 170 g) unsalted butter, room temperature
- 1 ½ cups (300 g) granulated sugar
- 3 large eggs, room temperature
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 ½ cups (192 g) cake flour
- ½ teaspoon kosher salt
- 2 tablespoons (30 g) buttermilk, room temperature
Crumb Topping
- ½ cup (1 stick / 113 g) unsalted butter, cold
- ¾ cup (93.75 g) all-purpose flour
- ⅓ cup (42 g) confectioners' sugar
Instructions
Cream Cheese Swirl
- In a small bowl, mix together the cream cheese and confectioners' sugar. Set aside while you prepare the muffin batter.
Muffins
- Preheat oven to 325°F. Line a muffin tin with muffin liners.
- In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, combine cream cheese and butter until smooth.
- Gradually add sugar and beat until lighter and fluffier, about 3 minutes.
- Add eggs one at a time, beating well with each addition.
- Add in the vanilla.
- Add the flour and salt. Mix until just combined.
- With the mixer on low, add buttermilk. Mix until just incorporated.
- Remove bowl from stand mixer and scrape with a rubber spatula to get every last bit of ingredient incorporated.
Crumb Topping
- Using a food processor or fork, combine the cold butter, flour, and confectioners' sugar. Make sure the butter is broken down and no larger than a pea when you are done.
Assembly
- Pour half the batter into the muffin tin, filling each cup only halfway.
- Add 2-3 teaspoons of cream cheese swirl to each muffin cup, followed by using the rest of the muffin batter to fill each cup.
- Using a toothpick, swirl the batter and the cream cheese of each muffin together.
- Top with the crumb topping evenly over each muffin and bake for 30-35 minutes.
- Remove the muffins from the oven and let them cool for about 10 minutes in the muffin tin before placing them on a wire rack.
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Nutrition
Serving: 1muffin | Calories: 451kcal