Pumpkin Muffins with Cream Cheese

Moist Pumpkin Spiced Muffins With Delicious Cream Cheese Swirls On Top. Healthy Breakfast Option For The Whole Family For Fall

pumpkin muffins with cream cheese

Pumpkin muffins always remind me of fall when the leaves starts to get vibrant colour and we start to look for our cosy light cardigans and jumpers. There are so many recipes for making Pumpkin muffins and you can top them up with a variety of delicious toppings. These Pumpkin muffins with Cream cheese swirls are however a keeper. It’s such a flavourful moist muffin recipe and makes a great veggie dessert option for kids at home.

why i like making these pumpkin muffins with cream cheese:

Moist Muffins: This recipe makes moist Pumpkin muffins. The use of ingredients in the recipe is at balance and if you follow them right it will give you great tasting moist muffins.

Healthy Option For Kids At Home: These muffins have vegetable and healthy spices which are good for body. This is a great option for offering kids some vegetables and spices that will help their body from inside. Kids love their treats and they won’t even know there is vegetable in the dessert. Moreover, they will get the benefits of Ginger, Nutmeg, Cinnamon and Clove used in the Pumpkin spice.

Makes a Healthy Breakfast Option For Everyone At Home: These delicious Pumpkin muffins can be a great healthy option for not only kids at home but also for anyone in the family.

Make Ahead Of Time : I love kids recipes that I can make ahead of time. These Pumpkin muffins can be made in advance and kids can enjoy it for a week saving mummies loads of time.

I have created a recipe video for making these yummy Pumpkin Muffins and have already posted the video on my YouTube channel Bubli’s World Cuisine. It’s actually a step by step visual demonstration on how to make this easy treat for the whole family at home. In order to see the recipe in action from start to finish, please click on the video. And for a printable version of this recipe please check the recipe card at the end of the blog:

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About The Ingredients for making Pumpkin Muffins:

Flour: Regular plain flour is needed for the recipe. Unfortunately gluten free flour does not give the same result.

Pumpkin Puree: I have used 100% pure Pumpkin puree for the recipe. Canned puree works great as long as they are 100% pure.

Sugar: Both white and brown sugar is used in the recipe for balancing everything.

Baking Soda: This will help the batter to rise and also to create a dome on the top.

Pumpkin Spice: Pumpkin spice is a seasonal spice mix and hence not always available on supermarket shelves. Moreover, they are only available at big supermarket. That is why I have given the measurements on how you can make this spice blend yourself at home. Please scroll below for that recipe.

Vanilla Extract: Vanilla extract will enhance the flavour of the baked muffins. Always try to use quality Vanilla as it makes great difference.

Salt: Adding a little salt will help balance all the spices and flavours in the recipe.

Oil: I have used plain oil for the recipe. I would not recommend using a strong flavoured oil as it can be overpowering for the Pumpkin spiced muffins.

Cream cheese: Cream cheese swirls are used on the top to make it extra delicious. Make sure they are at room temperature.

How to Make Pumpkin Spice At Home:

If you don’t have Pumpkin Spice to hand you can use the measurements given below to make your own Pumpkin spice.

Ground Cinnamon – 4 tsp

Ground Ginger – 2 tsp

Ground Cloves – 1 tsp

Ground Nutmeg – 1/2 tsp

Ground Allspice (Optional) – 1/2 tsp

How to make Moist Pumpkin Muffins with cream cheese from scratch

Ingredients for making pumpkin muffins with cream cheese:

Flour – 100 g

Pumpkin Purée – 1 Cup

White Granulated Sugar – 1/2 Cup

Brown Sugar – 1/4 Cup

Baking Soda – 1/2 tsp

Pumpkin Spice – 1 & 1/2 tsp

Vanilla Extract – 2 tsp

Salt – 1/4 tsp

Egg – 1

Oil – 1/4 Cup

For Cream cheese swirl

Cream Cheese – 1/2 Cup

White Granulated Sugar – 2 Tbsp

Vanilla – 1 tsp

Egg Yolk – 1 small

Instructions for making pumpkin muffins with cream cheese:

First pre-heat your oven to 400 F (200 C). Next line muffin tray with some parchments papers. This recipe yields 9 muffins.

Now put Flour, Pumpkin spice, Baking soda and Salt in a bowl and combine.

After that put Pumpkin purée, White sugar, Brown sugar, Egg, Vanilla, oil in another bowl and whisk to combine.

And now mix dry and wet mixtures together and combine to create a batter.

In a separate bowl whisk cream cheese and then add Egg yolk, sugar and vanilla and whisk to make a paste.

Scoop pumpkin batter into muffin holes. Fill up up-to 2/3. And then put around 1 tablespoon of cream cheese mixture on top. Finally, swirl cream cheese mixture using a toothpick.

Now let’s bake them in preheated oven for 18 to 20 minutes. 

Let the baked muffins cool down for five minutes and then transfer them into a cooling rack. 

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