Pumpkin Cream Cheese Muffin Recipe

Pumpkin Cream Cheese Muffins is a Starbucks copycat recipe. But ours are better. You know why?...because they are homemade, and you don’t have to leave the house. Pumpkin puree, pumpkin spice, and a luscious cream cheese filling make these the baking treats of the Fall season.

📝 Ingredients

• 1+1/2 cups all-purpose flour
• 3/4 cup granulated sugar
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/4 teaspoon sea salt
• 1 teaspoon pumpkin spice
• 1+1/2 cup (1 can of 13 oz) pure pumpkin puree
• 1/4 cup unsalted butter, melted and cooled
• 1 teaspoon vanilla bean paste or extract
• 1 egg lightly beaten
• 2 teaspoons toasted pumpkin seeds for garnish
• 4 oz cream cheese, softened
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla bean paste or extract
• 1 teaspoon all-purpose flour
• 3 Tablespoons granulated sugar
• 1 teaspoon milk

👨‍🍳 Instructions

1. 1--- Making the Muffins: ---
2. 2Preheat oven to 350F, and prepare muffin baking trays with paper muffin cups to hold 12 muffins.
3. 3Mix dry ingredients: In a large bowl, whisk together the flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, salt, and pumpkin spice.
4. 4Mix wet ingredients: In a separate medium-sized bowl, whisk together the pumpkin, melted butter, vanilla, and egg.
5. 5Combine: Make a well in the middle of the dry mixture and pour the wet mixture into the bowl. Stir with a large spoon until just combined and there are no dry pieces.
6. 6Fill muffin trays: evenly with the mixture.
7. 7--- Making the Cream Cheese Filling: ---
8. 8Blending: In a medium-sized bowl, mix all the ingredients using a hand or stand mixer on medium speed until smooth.
9. 9Filling: Place mix into a piping bag (or a Ziplock bag and cut off a small corner). Place the piping bag into the muffins one at a time and fill insides with the cream cheese. Evenly distribute cream cheese mixture along with all the muffins, leaving a little dollop on top of each.
10. 10Distribute: the pumpkin seeds evenly around the outsides of the batter if desired.
11. 11Bake: for 18-20 minutes until a toothpick inserted into the bread part of the muffins comes out mostly clean.
12. 12Cool: for 10 minutes and then take them out of the muffin tray and place on a wire rack to cool completely.