Red Velvet Cream Cheese Muffins
I'm starting my day with these deliciously moist and fluffy red velvet muffins. Each muffin has a dollop of cream cheese in the middle, and the buttery crunchy crumble topping adds a contrasting texture to the soft bake!
- Prep time
- --
- Cook time
- Not listed
- Yield
- 4 servings
- Difficulty
- MEDIUM
Ingredients
Quantities are shown as originally provided.
- 30 g castor sugar
- 50 g all-purpose flour
- 30 g unsalted butter (diced into cubes)
- 113 g brick-style cream cheese (softened (lite is okay))
- 1/4 cup 50g granulated sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 1/4 cups 160g all-purpose flour
- 1/2 cup 100g granulated sugar
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt (or to taste)
- 1 large egg (60g)
- 1/2 cup 113g melted butter
- 1/3 cup 80g buttermilk
- 2 tablespoon 15g natural unsweetened cocoa powder
- A few drops of red gel food colouring
Instructions
- 1
Preheat oven to 190C.
- 2
Line your muffin tin.
- 3
Crumble Topping
- 4
In a medium bowl, add sugar, flour, and butter. Use your fingers to rub in the all ingredients until you get coarse crumbs. Set aside.
- 5
Cream Cheese Batter
- 6
In a separate medium bowl, combine the cream cheese, sugar, vanilla. Whisk by hand or beat with a handheld electric mixer until smooth. Set aside.
- 7
In a large bowl, add the flour, sugar, baking powder, salt.
- 8
Whisk to combine.
- 9
In measuring cup or bowl, whisk egg, melted butter, buttermilk, cocoa powder, red food colouring together.
- 10
Add the wet ingredients to the dry and stir just until moistened.
- 11
Batter should be thick and lumpy, do not overmix!
- 12
Divide muffin batter equally into each liner.
- 13
Dollop one heaping teaspoon of cream cheese mixture into the muffin batter.
- 14
Swirl with tooth pick.
- 15
Evenly sprinkle each muffin with the crumble topping.
- 16
Bake for about 17 to 19 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean or with a few moist crumbs.
- 17
Allow muffins to cool in pan for about 5-10 minutes, then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.