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CARAMEL CHEESECAKE MUFFINS

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March 10, 2015
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CARAMEL CHEESECAKE MUFFINS
Author Notes

These streusel topped, freshly baked, filling-without-coring muffins were made for the “Academy Night”, a goofy Oscar Award event pulled together by the RA's of my university housing. What's better than melting a blob of cream cheese in your oral cavity on a Sunday night? With caramel and a mouthful of fluffy muffin perhaps?

Plus, how many times in life do you get to poke your finger in a pool of muffin batter? —Cara Feng

  • Makes 12 muffins
Ingredients
  • Streusel & caramel cream cheese filling
  • 4 tablespoons unsalted butter, cold, cut into pieces
  • 1/4 cup light brown sugar, packed
  • 1/2 cup ap flour
  • 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
  • 4 ounces cream cheese, room temp
  • 2 tablespoons caramel sauce
  • Muffins
  • 1 3/4 cups ap flour
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1/2 teaspoon fine salt
  • 1/2 cup unsalted butter, room temp
  • 1/2 cup granulated sugar
  • 2 large eggs, room temp
  • 1/2 cup yogurt, non-fat plain
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
In This Recipe
Directions
  1. Pre-heat the oven to 425°F/220°C, line a muffin tin with one dozen paper liners. Whisk together the dry ingredients (flour, leavening agents, salt) in a bowl until no lump persists (do this first so you only dirty one whisk, once!).
  2. Streusel: in a food processor, process the ingredients for streusel topping until pea-sized pieces form. You can also do this in a bowl with a pastry cutter, a fork, two knives, or cold fingertips. Keep cold in the refrigerator.
  3. Filling: in a small mixing bowl, whisk together the room temperature cream cheese and caramel sauce until well combined. Set aside.
  4. In a separate bowl, cream the butter with sugar until fully combined. Drop in the room temperature eggs one at a time, mix thoroughly after each addition. Mix in the yogurt and vanilla. Make a well in the center of flour mixture, pour in the wet ingredients and gently fold to combine until you don’t see any air pockets.
  5. Fill the muffin tin to 3/4 full. Dip your finger in some flour, quickly poke into the center of a puddle of batter and move it around to create more space, repeat until you have 12 wells. Take about 1/2-1 Tbsp of the cream cheese filling and drop into the well, fill all muffins. Sprinkle the streusel on top and blow off the excess, bake at 425°F/220°C for 5 minutes and turn down the heat to 350°F/170°C, bake for another 15 minutes or until a skewer inserted into the cake part comes out clean.
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