Copycat Starbucks Pumpkin Muffins
Let’s have that Starbucks experience without spending much with our new Copycat Starbucks Cream Cheese Pumpkin Muffins Recipe. These are fresh, delicious and budget-friendly muffins. You will definitely feel as if you are dining in at Starbucks but you are skipping overpriced muffins.
Copycat Starbucks Pumpkin Muffins
For most people, starting their day entails a cup of coffee and a muffin. Some can afford to have it at Starbucks while others cannot. But, worry no more because we got you covered with our new recipe of the Copycat Starbucks Cream Cheese Muffins. You can enjoy these rich tastes as if you were in Starbucks without spending much. Try it now!
What Equipment Do I Need for Copycat Starbucks Pumpkin Muffins?
Pretty simple! You will only need a 12 ct muffin pan , baking cups, ice cream scooper, bowls, whisk and a rubber spatula. Just these five tools and you are ready!
What Ingredients Do I Need to Prepare?
Here, you have to prepare the ingredients for the muffin and the filling. You can also consider putting some toppings on your muffins. It can be almonds, pumpkin seeds or walnuts.
For the muffin, you will need flour, brown and white sugar, baking powder, baking soda, salt, pumpkin pie spice, pumpkin puree, butter, vanilla and eggs.
For the filling, cream cheese, vanilla extract and sugar. Very simple, indeed.
How Do I Make Cream Cheese Pumpkin Muffins?
Well, there are only ten simple steps to follow from heating the oven, making the batter, and filling and up until baking the muffins. Just take note that when you squeeze out the filling into the center of the muffin, you will observe that it will sink and that is perfectly fine.
On a final note, once you are done adding brown sugar to the batter and you feel like it does not taste identical to the muffin of Starbucks, feel free to add some more. Adding more brown sugar makes the taste almost the same.
Copy Cat Starbucks Pumpkin Muffin
Equipment
- 2 ct muffin pan
- Baking cups
- Ice cream scooper
- 2 bowls
- Whisk
- Rubber spatula
Ingredients
For the MUFFIN
- 1 1/2 cups flour
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 1/4 cup brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice
- 1 1/2 cups pumpkin puree
- 1/4 cup butter melted/cooled
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 eggs
For the CREAM CHEESE FILLING
- 4 oz cream cheese softened
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 3 tablespoon sugar
- Optional toppings: slivered almonds pumpkin seeds or walnuts
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Line a muffin tray with liners
- In a bowl combine all of the dry ingredients.
- In a separate bowl, combine the (wet ingredients) pumpkin, melted butter, vanilla extract, and eggs.
- Add the wet mixture to the dry mixture and stir until just combined.
- Fill muffin liners with batter about 3/4 full using an ice cream scooper.
cream cheese filling:
- Place ingredients into a bowl and mix well.
- Use a piping bag or Ziploc bag with corner tip cut off and squeeze out even amounts into the center of the muffins.
- It will sink a little and that’s okay.
- Add pumpkin seeds, slivered almonds or chopped walnuts for added texture around the top of the
- muffin avoiding the cream cheese dollop.
- Place muffin tray into preheated oven to bake for about 18-20 minutes.
Notes for blogger:
- 1/4 cup brown sugar was added after the tasting the batter and it wasn’t fully matching the Starbucks flavor. Adding the brown sugar made it taste almost identical
