Pumpkin Spice Muffins with Cranberries and White Chocolate Chips
1 1/2 sticks of butter, softened
8 oz cream cheese
1 cup sugar
1 cup brown sugar
2 eggs
3 cups all purpose flour
1 tsp pumpkin pie spice
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1 1/2 cups pureed pumpkin
1/2 cup dried cranberries
1/2 cup white chocolate chips
Cream butter, cream cheese and sugar until fluffy. Add brown sugar. Mix in eggs one at a time until smooth. In a separate bowl mix flour, spices, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Add in to butter mixture alternately with pumpkin. Beat until smooth and fluffy. Stir in cranberries and white chocolate chips. Spoon into greased muffin tin. Bake at 370 degrees for 15 minutes.
In case y'all haven't heard, PUMPKIN SPICE LATTES ARE BACK AT STARBUCKS!! It may still be 98 degrees here in the shade but you better believe I've had 2 already. I am a summer girl at heart, but I can hear fall calling my name. Boot, flannel shirts, falling leaves, cool weather, apple pie, and punkin flavored everything. BLISS. As I have said in the past, I have made fixing breakfast an Olympic event. I'm a busy girl so breakfast has to be a thermos of coffee and something I can eat in the car. Since I don't have time to run to Starbucks every morning and get a pumpkin spice latte IV, I decided to make an edible version... the punkin spice bagel.... and it is FANTASTIC! I eat mine on a cinnamon raisin thin sliced bagel but it would be wonderful on just about any kind!
Pumpkin Spice Bagel Cream Cheese Spread:
1 8oz block of cream cheese (you can use low fat or whipped if you like)
3/4 cup canned pureed pumpkin (not canned pumpkin pie filling)
2 1/2 teaspoons apple pie spice (I usually add a little more cinnamon also, just because I like mine with a bolder spice flavor)
pinch of ground cloves (be careful not to add too much- its a strong flavor)
2 tablespoons + 1 teaspoon brown sugar (you can add or subtract to this to taste)
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
With an electric mixer, cream on high until smooth, fluffy and creamy! Shmear it all over a bagel or just eat it with a spoon like I did!
-Ada Grey
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