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Monday, June 20, 2011

Banana Cheesecake Swirl Muffins

Hi everybody!  Hope your weekend was excellent!  Ours was spent a little under the weather.  But that didn't stop us from making all of the important rounds for the amazing Fathers and Grandpas in our lives!  I even managed to get dinner on the table for my sweet husband.  Sure, it wasn't until 9:30 pm but hey, it got done and at this time of year it's still sort of light outside so dinner at 9:30 pm is okay at our house!:)  Anyway, I'm really excited about sharing an absolutely incredible muffin recipe with you today!  I was looking at the over ripe bananas sitting on my counter Saturday night and remembered I had cream cheese sitting in my fridge!  The wheels started turning and I decided a banana/cream cheese muffin needed to be on the docket for Father's Day breakfast!  Well, this muffin exceeded good.  They were melt in your mouth, buttery, sweet, delicious!  I ended up taking several over to my parents and they were gone quick!  My brother Jas had to hide one and Mom didn't even get to try one!  I found a simple banana muffin recipe online and modified it slightly!  Then I whipped up an easy cheesecake batter to swirl into the muffin batter!  If you are in the mood for muffins, you guys have got to try these!!!!!  I promise they will not disappoint! 
Preheat your oven to 350 degrees.
Ingredients for muffin batter:
Mix together:
4 large ripe bananas, mashed
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1 egg
1/3 cup butter, softened
Add and mix in thoroughly:
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 cups flour


Prepare your muffin tin by spraying with cooking spray or using muffin papers.
Fill prepared muffin tin 3/4 full each with batter.  Set aside.


Ingredients for cheesecake batter:
Mix together thoroughly:
1 (8oz) package cream cheese, softened
2 tablespoons granulated sugar
1 egg


Now dollop a heaping tablespoon full of the cheesecake batter on top of the muffin batter in each tin.  Then using a butter knife, swirl the two batters together slightly. (Not mixing together)  Then into the preheated oven for 20-25 minutes!  Let the muffins cool for about 10 minutes and then turn out on a cooling rack.  Enjoy!!!!  We sure did!
Recipe yields 15 muffins.


image by Kara
  

2 comments:

Briana said...

I got a little nibble of one and they were dang good.

Haley and Lance (but probably just Haley) said...

Yum Kara! Muffins are the best!