Description
These Easy Peach Cream Cheese Muffins are the best muffin recipe everybody needs—quick, simple, and seriously delicious. The best part? They’re incredibly easy to make, no mixer required, and thanks to canned peaches, you can enjoy them any time of year. Prefer fresh fruit? That works too!
Ingredients
Streusel Crumb Topping:
- 3/4 cup all-purpose flour
- 1/3 cup granulated sugar
- 1/4 cup unsalted butter- melted
Cream Cheese Filling:
- 8 oz. cream cheese-room temperature
- 1/3 cup granulated sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
Peach Muffins:
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 2 eggs
- 1/4 cup unsalted butter-melted and cooled to room temperature
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/2 cup milk
- 2 Tablespoons peach juice (from the can of peaches)
- 2 (15-ounce) cans of peaches
- 1 Tablespoon all-purpose flour ( to toss the peaches)
Instructions
Reserve 2 Tablespoons of peach juice from the can to mix into the nuffin batter, then drain the peaches. Chop them into small 1/3-inch pieces to get 1 heaping cup chopped peaches for the bater. Remaining peaches, chop into slightly larger pieces (about ½ inch), and you will use them to sprinkle on top of the nuffins. For sprinkling on top you will nedd about ¾-1 cup. You may have leftover peaches depending on the actual number of peaches in the can, brand and size of the cans.
To make the streusel:
- Using a fork whisk 1/3 cup of granulated sugar and ¾ cuup of flour, You can add some cinnamon if you prefer. Then pour in room temperature melted butter, and whisk with a fork until evenly moistened and coarse crumb forms. Set in the fridge until ready to use.
To make the cream cheese filling:
- Mix softened cream cheese, 1/3 cup of sugar and vanilla, until smooth, then set aside. You don’t have to whipp it to be fluffy, I whisked it with a fork, just to combine.
To make the peach muffin mixture:
- Preheat the oven to 425 F, and line standard muffinn pan with paper liners and set aside.
- In a large mixing bowl, place eggs, sugar, peach juice, milk, vanilla and melted butter. Whisk to combine.
- Sift in all-purpose flour, baking powder and salt. Whisk to combine,
- Toss 1 cup of small diced peaches with 1 Tablespoon of flour, and using a rubber spatula, gently fold them into the muffin mixture.
To assemble the muffins:
- Spread about 2 ½ Tablespoons of the batter into the bottom of each paper liner. Add about a 2-3 tespoons of cream cheese filling in the center. Next spread about 1 tablespoons of muffin mixture over the cream cheese filling. Each cup shoul be about 2/3 to ¾ full. Add a few peaces of chopped peaches on top and sprinkle with streusel crumb toppng.
- Place muffin pan onto a baking sheet and place in the oven. Bake 5 minutes at 425 F, then reduce the oven temperature to 350 F and bake for 20-25 minutes. Cool in the pan for 5 minutes, then transfer on a rack to cool completely.
- Store on the counter up to 1 day, then keep them in the fridge in an air-tight container up to 3-4 days.
Notes
- If you use fresh peaches instead of canned, you will need almost 1lb. peeled and chopped peaches. Make sure they are ripe and juicy, not too firm. Substitute peach juice with milk or orange juice.