A few years ago, Quinn came up with this recipe as a special treat for me. I love, love, love all things cream cheese. Somehow, the recipe got buried among the countless recipes I’ve collected. Then, the other morning, I woke up to find that Quinn had not only unearthed the recipe but had the muffins baking in the oven.
If you love cream cheese like we do, these are the muffins for you. That is certainly the predominant flavor. Cream cheese is mixed in the batter, plus a dollop of it inside for an extra burst of it. Of course, what makes these even better to me is the sprinkling of pecans on top. Yes, he definitely came up with these just for me.
These are usually made in muffin tins, but this time Quinn used mini loaf pans. I think that size would be great for gifts, which is especially of note now that the holidays are upon us.
Ingredients
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 4 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 2/3 cup milk
- 1/2 cup vegetable oil
- 2 large eggs
- 8 ounces cream cheese, softened
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1/4 cup unsalted butter, softened
- 1/4 cup finely chopped pecans
Instructions
Preheat oven to 375°. Grease a 12-cup muffin tin and set aside.
To make the muffins, combine flour, 1 cup of sugar, baking powder, and salt in a large bowl. Make a well in the center.
Stir together milk, oil, and eggs. Pour into well in the dry ingredients. Stir just until dry ingredients are moistened.
To make the sweetened cream cheese, combine cream cheese and 1 cup of sugar. Fold about half of this mixture into the muffin batter.
Spoon batter into greased muffin pans, about 1/2 to 2/3 full. Spoon the remaining cream cheese mixture onto the muffins, pressing the mix into each muffin with a spoon handle.
To make the topping, combine all topping ingredients until crumbly. Sprinkle generously over muffins. Bake 24 to 30 minutes until golden brown. Cool in pan for 10 minutes. Then, remove from pan to wire racks to cool completely.
http://www.bakeorbreak.com/2007/11/quinns-cream-cheese-muffins/
November 11th, 2007 at 1:28 pm
4 t of baking powder? Is that right? Do they have a bitter flavor because if it?
They sound HEAVENLY!
There is a recipe from Pillsbury I think where you take the blue roll of fridge biscuits, flatten them, cut 8 oz of cr cheese into as many hunks as you have biscuits, dip the cheese chunk into melted butter, then roll it in cinnamon sugar mix, put it in the center of the flattened biscuit and bring biscuit dough over it, set it in a muffin cup and bake.
They are SO wonderful and remind me of these muffins!
THANKS for this recipe.
November 11th, 2007 at 1:34 pm
Those would have been great for breakfast today.
November 11th, 2007 at 3:18 pm
These look yummy! How did you adjust the cooking time for the mini loaf pans?
November 11th, 2007 at 6:18 pm
Jamie, that is the correct amount of baking powder. They’re not bitter at all.
Peabody, I highly recommend them any morning for breakfast.
Leslie, they do need to bake a bit longer in the mini loaf pans. Maybe just 3 or 4 minutes more. I rely heavily on the toothpick method of testing doneness. Just remember that you may get gooey cream cheese out, but they may still be done.
November 11th, 2007 at 6:20 pm
Oh, Jamie! I almost forgot. Your recipe sounds delicious, too! I’ve made a similar thing using canned biscuits, but it was all put into a Bundt pan for a monkey bread. You can read about it here. Yum!
November 12th, 2007 at 9:26 am
Oh wow! These look incredible! I can’t wait to try them! Cream cheese= lots of exclamation points!
November 12th, 2007 at 12:48 pm
Must make for tomorrow…right now! I might have them for dinner…they sound fantastic!
November 12th, 2007 at 12:52 pm
They sound fantastic! What a nice to have in the morning. I am heading to the kitchen as we speak!!
November 12th, 2007 at 6:25 pm
Goodness these look GOOD! I will definitely make them soon!!
November 13th, 2007 at 10:04 am
Thanks, everyone, for the compliments!
January 20th, 2008 at 12:08 pm
I’m new to finding your website, and these look amazing. Will make them tomorrow
Thanks for all the great recipes and foodie talk!
January 20th, 2008 at 1:11 pm
Hi, Karee! I’m glad you found me. Hope you like the muffins!
March 5th, 2008 at 10:03 am
Loved these! Made them yesterday for a band I work with, and they liked them so much, I had to send them home with some. Thanks for sharing the recipe.
March 5th, 2008 at 6:25 pm
Ngoc, I’m glad you liked them! They’re definitely one of my favorites.
March 5th, 2008 at 9:35 pm
how much vegetable oil? I think the recipe says ’1/2 vegetable oil’. Thanks!
March 6th, 2008 at 8:02 am
Thanks for pointing that out, Chris. It should be 1/2 cup. I’ve corrected the recipe.
March 7th, 2008 at 8:00 am
I made this recipe for my MOPS (mothers of preschoolers) group and it got rave reviews. We love the cream cheese in the middle. Thanks for posting Jennifer!
March 7th, 2008 at 9:06 am
Glad you liked them, Chris!
March 29th, 2008 at 10:03 am
Jennifer, I just took these out of the oven. They are wonderful! You just can’t go wrong with cream cheese.
March 29th, 2008 at 6:22 pm
Cindy, I’m glad you liked them! I am a huge fan of cream cheese.
May 28th, 2008 at 12:22 pm
I just served these for breakfast and:
they look beautiful
they’re relatively simple to make
they’re overly sweet.
I think next time I’ll reduce the sugar a bit, or add some blackberries.
May 28th, 2008 at 2:08 pm
Tim, blackberries sound like a great idea with all that cream cheese!
December 15th, 2008 at 5:40 pm
Went looking for a recipe like this for my daughters in law baby showers…. found this one and experimented with it. The cooking time needed to be shortened for my oven. (Just about in half) I also thought I did something wrong since they seemed a bit dry. I cut the oil in half and added a half cup of applesauce. Let me just say…. Oh my yummy goodness!!!!! My husband and I do a lot of camping from April to November….I took these a couple of times at the end of the season and boy were they a hit!!! This has become a camping group fav!!!! Thanks so much for the great hidden treasure!
April 16th, 2009 at 11:51 am
i just made these and they are so GOOD! i wasnt sure how many muffins this made so i halfed the recipie and they made about six muffins. i made a different topping though because i dont like nuts so i put
3tbs flour
3tbs oats
2tbs butter
2tbs brown sugar
and they turned out wonderful! i also had a little trouble getting the cream cheese center in next time i might add some of the batter then cream cheese then the rest of the batter im not sure though. thanks for the great recipie and cannot wait to make them again
Nicole
September 8th, 2010 at 4:06 am
i tried this yesterday but i made some modifications…i used 2 1/2 c. of flour, 3/4 c. of sugar for the batter and 1/2 sugar for cream cheese filling. I also halved the sugar for the topping and it came out perfectly! Thanks for sharing this. It’s really a keeper.
September 23rd, 2010 at 7:50 am
hello I’m having a hard time trying to understand about how you get the cream cheese in the middle of the muffin .. Can you explain to me in better details.. I just can’t figure this out.. Hoe embarassing
September 24th, 2010 at 4:47 pm
Debbie, some of the cream cheese is stirred into the batter. The rest is just put on top of each and pressed down a bit.
September 29th, 2010 at 7:09 am
Jennifer, I just took these out of the oven. They are wonderful! You just can’t go wrong with cream cheese.
March 6th, 2011 at 10:59 pm
I adore cream cheese-I want to make these asap. Thanks for posting!
May 4th, 2011 at 4:00 pm
Could you substitute brown sugar for the topping?
January 4th, 2012 at 1:21 pm
I just made these — we are now in muffin bliss! My husband loves them.
June 18th, 2012 at 1:03 pm
So I’m on a diet right now, but when I finish I’m going to be allowed to eat 1 cake a week, and THIS will be one of it!!!!!
January 14th, 2013 at 8:10 am
Great Recipe, Made them for a party, and they were a huge hit. This is definitely going into my favorites binder.