Carrot Cake Muffins Recipe With Cheesecake Fillings

Whether they’re a delicious breakfast, snack or dessert, these moist Carrot Cake Muffins will be the best food you’ve put in your mouth all day. With smooth cream cheese filling inside and crunchy cinnamon streusel on top, I can’t decide which is my favorite part!

Carrot Cake Muffins with Creamy Cheesecake Filling

Since my first try with carrots in a dessert went very well, despite all the doubts that I had, there was nothing else left to do but to enter a new experiment. Yes! Like Schwarzenegger in the movie „Terminator“, my carrot said the unforgettable sentence „I’ll be back“. And since Easter is here, there is no better time for it. So, here we are again, talking about carrots.

This time, on the menu are one of the most popular muffins in the last year or two on Pinterest – Carrot Cake Muffins. This muffin was first seen on the great blog „King Arthur Flour“ and after that, I haven’t seen a famous food blogger that hasn’t tried this recipe. The thing that makes it really irresistible is the beautiful cheesecake filling which leaves the impression that the muffin simply melts in your mouth.

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Well, ok, if my more famous colleagues from the blogging community tried it, this is the time for me to do it. But, in order not to copy-paste the recipe from the King Arthur Flour, I decided to make a little adaptation of my own. If you have ever been on my Bread & Muffin page, you must have seen that almost every one has to have streusel crumbs. Yes, everyone in my home simply loves these sweet crumbs, so the tradition was to be continued. My Carrot Cake Muffins will bi covered with this sweet addition and sugar and milk  glaze will be drizzled over it.

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As for the preparation of the muffins itself, you really shouldn’t have any difficulties or any problems. The steps are simple and the only question you have in front of yourself is how much cheesecake filling to put in your muffins. This time, I experimented with very little up to so much that the muffin simply melts in your mouth from the filling. It all depends on what you prefer.

And after about 20 minutes of baking, here is my kitchen again filled with the smell of carrot cake and a beautiful dessert or breakfast on my table! Muffins you can have for Easter or any other occasion. As for me, I won’t say that the Carrot Cake Muffins have beaten my favorite Raspberry Muffins. But my family was really delighted, so in a very short time, from the muffins, there were only some crumbs left on an empty plate. So if you a carrot cake lovers this is another recipe you should try.

Carrot Cake Muffins with Cheesecake Filling

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• Author: Vera Zecevic
• Prep Time: 30 minutes
• Cook Time: 20 minutes
• Total Time: 50 minutes
• Yield: 18 muffins 1x
• Category: Dessert
• Method: Oven
• Cuisine: American

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Whether they’re a delicious breakfast, snack or dessert, these moist Carrot Cake Muffins will be the best food you’ve put in your mouth all day. With smooth cream cheese filling inside and crunchy cinnamon streusel on top, I can’t decide which is my favorite part!

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Ingredients

For Carrot Cake Muffins:

• 2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
• 1/2 cup granulated sugar
• 1/4 cup light brown sugar (firmly packed)
• 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
• 3/4 teaspoon ground ginger
• 3/4 teaspoon salt
• 2 large eggs
• 3/4 cup water
• 1/3 cup vegetable oil
• 1 cup grated carrots (about 2–3 medium carrots)

For cream cheese filling:

• 10 ounce cream cheese-softened
• 1/4 cup+1 Tablespoon sugar
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla

For Streusel Topping:

• 1 cup all-purpose flour
• 2/3 cup granulated sugar
• 1 /2 cup unsalted butter-melted
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1/4 teaspoon salt

For the Glaze:

• 1 Teaspoon milk
• 1/4 cup powdered sugar

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Instructions

1. Preheat the oven to 400°F, line standard cupcake pan with paper liners and set aside.
2. To make streusel topping in a medium bowl stir together 1 cup all-purpose flour, 2/3 cup granulated sugar, 1 teaspoon cinnamon and 1/4 teaspoon salt, add 1 /2 cup melted unsalted butter melted and stir it with a fork until crumbly, set aside.
3. To make the filling beat the cream cheese, vanilla and sugar until smooth, set aside.
4. To make the muffins, in a large bowl, whisk together dry ingredients listed for the muffins.
5. In a small bowl, whisk together the eggs, water and oil.
6. Stir the egg mixture into dry ingredients, then fold in grated carrots and stir well to combine..
7. Drop about 1 1/2-2 Tablespoons of the batter into each cup and spread to cover the bottom, then place 1 heaping tablespoon of filling, cover with carrot batter to fill the cups 3/4 full, then top with streusel topping and bake about 20 minutes, until the toothpick inserted in the cake (not cream cheese filling) comes out clean.
8. Remove the muffins from the oven, let them cool for 10 minutes in the pan then transfer to a rack to cool completely.
9. To make the glaze, stir well 1 tablespoon milk with 1/4 cup powdered sugar and drizzle over the muffins before serving.