A perfectly spiced muffin with a delicious cream cheese center. These Starbucks inspired muffins are definitely a fan favorite, and taste even better homemade!

Today, we’re making Starbucks-inspired Pumpkin Cream Cheese Muffins! These muffins are a must for this time of year. They are tender, soft, and perfectly spiced for the fall season. Baking and eating them is so comforting, but an added plus of making them in the comfort of your own kitchen is that they make your home smell amazing!

Here’s a video to guide you along the process :

Few tips:

• Preheat your oven to 350°F before you start mixing your muffin batter.
• When combining wet and dry ingredients, stir just until they are incorporated. Over-mixing can lead to tough muffins.
• Don’t add the cream cheese mixture to the bottom of your batter. Start piping the cream cheese mixture in the middle of each muffin, and pipe and extra dollop on top.
• Grease the muffin tin with non-stick cooking spray or use paper liners to prevent sticking.
• To check for doneness, insert a toothpick into the center of a muffin (avoiding the cream cheese filling) near the end of the baking time. If it comes out clean or with a few moist crumbs, the muffins are done. If it has wet batter on it, they need more time.
• Allow the muffins to cool in the muffin tin for a few minutes.
• Store your muffins in an airtight container to keep them fresh. They can also be frozen for longer shelf life.

Process:

Starbucks Pumpkin Cream Cheese Muffins

A perfectly spiced muffin with a delicious cream cheese center. These Starbucks inspired muffins are definitely a fan favorite, and taste even better homemade!

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Prep Time 20 mins

Cook Time 25 mins

Total Time 45 mins

Course Dessert

Cuisine American

Servings 14

Ingredients

  

Wet ingredients:

• 1 15 oz can pumpkin purée
• 3/4 cup Brown sugar
• 3/4 cup Sugar
• 2 Eggs whisked
• 1 tbsp Vanilla
• 1/2 cup Butter, unsalted 1 stick

Dry ingredients:

• 2 cups All-purpose flour
• 1 tsp Baking soda
• 1/2 tsp Baking powder
• 1 tsp Salt
• 2 tsp Cinnamon
• 1 tbsp Pumpkin pie spice
• 1/4 tsp Nutmeg
• 1/4 tsp Ginger

Cream Cheese filling:

• 16 oz Cream cheese room temp or cold
• 1/2 cup Sugar
• 1 1/2 tsp Vanilla extract
• pinch of Salt

Topping:

• Chopped pumpkin seeds

Instructions

 

• Preheat oven to 350°F.

Cream cheese mixture:

• Add your room temperature cream cheese, sugar, vanilla, and salt into a bowl. Mix until smooth.
• If your cream cheese is straight out of the fridge, use either a hand held mixer or a stand mixer to make combining your ingredients easier on you.
• Add your cream cheese mixture into a piping bag (you can use a ziplock bag as a make shift piping bag), and set to the side.

Batter:

• In a bowl combine pumpkin purée, sugars, eggs, vanilla, and butter.
• Once your wet ingredients are combined, add in your dry ingredients. Your flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, pumpkin pie spice, nutmeg, and ginger.
• Fold all of your ingredients together just until combined. Do not over-mix.

Forming your muffins:

• Space out your muffins so when they bake they don't smush into each-other.
• Spoon the batter into the prepared muffin pan. (Either spray your muffin tin with cooking spray, or line with muffin liners).
• Fill your muffin liners all the way up to the top.
• Cut off the tip of your piping bag and begin piping your mixture into the middle of each muffin and bring it up to the top. Leaving a nice dollop of your mixture on the top as well.
• Add chopped pumpkin seeds to the perimeter of your muffins.

Bake:

• Bake at 350°F for 25 minutes.
• Transfer the pan to a cooling rack and let the muffins cool for 5-10 minutes.
• Remove the muffins from the pan and let cool to room temperature on the rack.
• And you’re done!

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