Cream Cheese Muffins

Since having gotten married, there has been one gadget I’ve been wanting to try out so very very badly: the Cuisinart Stand Mixer my parents bought us. It’s truly a thing of beauty. In fact, I’ve never had a stand mixer ever in my life. Whenever we used to bake cakes as a kid,  we had an avocado green hand blender with the two little popsicle like attachments that we used to take off after blending yellow cake and we’d like the left over batter off of them. I once got my fingers stuck in them…I have no idea why. You don’t know pain until you’ve foolishly stuck your fingers in between the attachments of a working hand blender.  Anyways, I’m not one to bake too often, but now that I have this new awesome contraption, I feel like I have to start baking.

I pondered high and lo…as to what it could be that would motivate me enough to bake. As it turns out, I was cleaning my desk at work the other day, and I found an old recipe I had printed out from a blog I visited almost a year ago detailing the deliciousness of cream cheese muffins. I even commented on these muffins!!!!

I brought home the wrinkled recipe and planned to make them at once! I was lucky enough to have most of the ingredients at home already so it wasn’t one of those baking ventures that gets too costly to make.

I followed the instructions almost to a tee, but I admit I deviated a bit on the topping and the cream cheese portion. I ended up dumping all of the cream cheese and sugar mixture into the batter because I didn’t read directions and didn’t let the cream cheese sit to room temp. For the topping, I used ground pecans and brown sugar only, topping the muffins before putting them in the oven.

Even though my attempted at baking these cream cheese muffins was a bit half-assed, they were pretty good I must say. The recipe yielded about 24, so I had tons left and brought them into work. Also, the new mixer? Worked like a charm. I was surprised at how quiet it was…and the best part, is that it has a plastic guard so I won’t tempt myself into sticking my hands in it while it’s running.