Pumpkin Cream Cheese Swirl Muffins
These easy, tasty Pumpkin Cream Cheese Swirl Muffins make a perfect lightened up fall breakfast or snack!
Ingredients
For the Muffins
- 1 large egg
- 1 cup canned pumpkin puree
- ¼ cup granulated white sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 4 tablespoons light butter, melted (I use Land O’Lakes light butter spread with canola oil in the tub)
- 1 ½ cups all-purpose flour
- 1 ½ teaspoons pumpkin pie spice
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon salt
For the Cream Cheese Swirl
- 4 oz 1/3 less fat cream cheese, softened to room temperature
- 1 egg yolk
- 2 tablespoons granulated white sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Instructions
- Pre-heat the oven to 375 degrees. Lightly mist a 12-count standard-sized muffin tin with cooking spray and set aside.
- In a large mixing bowl, add the egg, pumpkin, ¼ cup sugar, and 1 teaspoon vanilla extract and stir together until well combined. Add the melted butter and stir together.
- In a separate mixing bowl, add the flour, pumpkin pie spice, baking soda, baking powder, and salt and whisk until combined. Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients and stir together until combined into a batter. Spoon the batter evenly amongst the wells in the prepared muffin tin.
- Place the four ingredients for the cream cheese swirl into a separate mixing bowl and use a hand mixer to combine them until smooth. Add a dollop of the cream cheese mixture on top of the pumpkin muffin batter in each muffin tin well and then use a toothpick to swirl them together on top of each muffin.
- Place the muffin tin into the heated oven and bake for 18-20 minutes.
Notes
WW Points per muffin: 5 (Points calculated using the recipe builder on weightwatchers.com)
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Nutrition Information per (1 muffin) serving:
146 calories, 21 g carbs, 7 g sugars, 6 g fat, 2 g saturated fat, 3 g protein, 1 g fiber, 191 mg sodium (from myfitnesspal.com) Weight Watchers Points Plus:
4 per (1 muffin) serving (P+ calculated using the recipe builder on weightwatchers.com)
146 calories, 21 g carbs, 7 g sugars, 6 g fat, 2 g saturated fat, 3 g protein, 1 g fiber, 191 mg sodium (from myfitnesspal.com) Weight Watchers Points Plus:
4 per (1 muffin) serving (P+ calculated using the recipe builder on weightwatchers.com)