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Cooking Together: Pumpkin Cream Cheese Muffins
by Brandie Valenzuela
For the best family time, bring your kids into the kitchen to
help you make this delicious, Autumn inspired recipe.
Who Can Do What
Everyone: Gather Tools and Ingredients
Young Children: Stir and pour measured ingredients into bowl and fill muffin
cups
Older Children: Measure ingredients, plus any of the above
Teens/Adults: Heat over; put in oven, remove from oven, plus any of the above
Tools
Mixing
Bowl
Measuring Spoons
Measuring Cups
Muffin
Pan
Paper
Baking Cups
Mixing
Spoon
Ingredients
1 egg
1/2 cup
milk
1/2 cup
canned pumpkin
1/3 cup
oil
1 3/4
cup flour
1/2 cup
sugar
3 tsp.
baking powder
1/2
tsp. cinnamon
1/4
tsp. salt
1/4
tsp. nutmeg
1 pkg.
cream cheese (3 ounces)
Directions
1.
Heat oven to 400 F.
2.
Line muffin pan with paper baking cups.
3. In
a medium sized bowl combine the egg, milk, pumpkin, and oil.
4.
Stir the flour, sugar, baking powder, cinnamon, salt and nutmeg into the
pumpkin
mixture.
5.
Fill cups about 1/2 full (keep the leftover in the bowl).
6.
Divide cream cheese into 12 pieces and place one on top of the batter in each
cup.
7. Top
each cup with more batter, filling 2/3 full, covering the piece of cream cheese.
8.
Bake for 18 to 22 minutes. Remove from oven.
9. For
a special treat, serve with a dollop of whipped cream.
Save Time! Make the mess only once! Double or even triple this
recipe; freeze your extras for later.
Brandie Valenzuela is a wife and homeschooling mom of three, who loves
scrapbooking, cooking, and spending time with her family. In her spare
time, she publishes "HomeMade Living", a popula weblog for mothers, at
http://homemadeliving.blogspot.com |