Cream Cheese Banana Muffins: Moist & Flavorful

These Banana Cream Cheese Muffins are moist, flavor packed, and include a mouth-watering cream cheese topping! Plus, they are ready to enjoy them in only 30 minutes!

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Do you ever look in your freezer and find TONS of bananas you didn’t realize were in there? Well, hopefully I am not alone in that because I thought I had about three to use up and when I glanced in my freezer last week, I had at least EIGHT, ha-ha!

Most recipes I make call for about three to four bananas, so I pulled some out to thaw and originally planned on making banana bread. Well, my afternoon got away from me and banana bread just didn’t end up happening. Fast forward to the next day and I had three thawed bananas in my refrigerator, no weekend breakfast plans, and a hungry hubby.

Since my hubby is a huge breakfast fan, he and I put our minds together and decided to make the banana version of our favorite Pumpkin Cream Cheese Muffins. Not only were they incredibly flavorful, but they were quite simple and quick to prepare! Truly the best muffins!

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This decadent muffin is moist, fluffy, and tastes like the perfect banana bread. Add the cream cheese mixture on top and you have a combination to make any mouth water! How can you not love banana bread muffins… and the best part? With a cream cheese topping!

I always feel a little weird enjoying Pumpkin Cream Cheese Muffins in July since pumpkin always screams “Fall” to me, so now I get to enjoy the same great taste but in banana flavor! You will have no regrets baking these delicious cream cheese banana muffins! These moist banana muffins with cream cheese are sure to be a big hit with the whole family!

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Banana Cream Cheese Muffins Ingredients

Muffin:

• All-purpose flour
• Baking soda
• Baking powder
• Salt
• Bananas
• White sugar
• Brown sugar
• Egg
• Vegetable oil

Cream cheese topping:

• Cream cheese
• Sugar
• Egg yolk
• Vanilla extract

Banana Cream Cheese Muffins Directions

1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees and line a muffin tray with liners (or grease).
2. In a medium mixing bowl, combine flour, baking powder, soda, and salt.
3. In a separate bowl, combine the mashed bananas, sugars, egg, oil, and vanilla.
4. Whisk banana mixture into the flour mixture and stir until just combined.
5. Pour muffin batter evenly into prepared muffin cups, filling about 2/3 full.
6. In a small bowl, mix the cream cheese, sugar, egg yolk, and vanilla together until smooth.
7. Scoop about a spoonful of cream cheese mixture onto each of the filled paper liners and continue until all muffin cups have cream cheese filling.
8. Place the pan into a preheated oven and bake for about 18-20 minutes.
9. Remove from the oven and enjoy your banana bread muffins with cream cheese!!

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Substitutions and Variations

Vegetable Oil: You can use melted butter in place of vegetable oil.

Chocolate: Really take this recipe up a notch if you love chocolate by adding chocolate chips or chocolate chunks!

Exact Ingredients

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• 2 cups flour *all purpose
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 4 bananas, mashed
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1/2 cup brown sugar
• 1 egg
• 1/4 cup vegetable oil

CREAM CHEESE TOPPING

• 8 oz cream cheese *softened
• 1/4 cup sugar
• 1 egg yolk
• 2 teaspoon vanilla extract