Pumpkin Cream Cheese Muffins

🧂 Ingredients

• 8 ounces cream cheese

  softened
• 3 eggs
• 2 1/2 cups sugar
• 2 1/2 cups flour
• 1/4 cups walnuts

  roughly chopped
• 3 tablespoons butter

  melted
• 2 1/2 teaspoons pumpkin pie spice
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 1/4 teaspoons baking soda
• 1 1/4 cups solid packed pumpkin
• 1/3 cups vegetable oil
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract

Instructions

• 1 Heat oven to 375 degrees F. Lightly coat two 12-cup muffin tins with cooking
  spray and set aside.
• 2 Mix the softened cream cheese, 1 egg, and 3 tablespoons sugar into a small bowl
  and set aside.
• 3 Toss 5 tablespoons sugar, 1/2 cup flour, walnuts, butter, and 1/2 teaspoon
  pumpkin pie spice together in a medium bowl and set aside.
• 4 Combine the remaining sugar, flour, salt, baking powder, baking soda, and
  remaining pumpkin pie spice in a large bowl. Lightly beat the remaining eggs,
  pumpkin, oil, and vanilla together in a medium bowl. Make a well in the center
  of the flour mixture, pour the pumpkin mixture into the well, and mix with a
  fork just until moistened.
• 5 Evenly divide half the batter among the muffin cups. Next, place two
  teaspoonfuls of cream cheese filling in the center of each cup and fill with the
  remaining batter. Sprinkle some of the nut mixture over the top of each muffin
  and bake until golden and until a toothpick inserted into the muffin center
  comes out clean. Approximately 20 – 25 minutes.

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