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One of our favorite parts of Mardi Gras is finding the perfect king cake. Locals are constantly looking for the BEST King Cake sold in their area and some will take great lengths to recreate their own DIY king cake recipe. While others are looking for the perfect combination of sprinkled sugar, icing and flavored fillings I am on the mission to find the perfect cake flavor. Today I share (in my opinion) the best of both world- single serve cinnamon cupcake flavor with a cream cheese filling. I hope you enjoy our Filled King Cake Muffins.
Muffin:
3 cups flour
½ tsp salt
1 cup sugar
2 tsp baking powder
1 ½ cups milk
2 eggs
½ cup oil
1 tsp vanilla
Cinnamon Filling (recipe follows)
Cream Cheese Filling (recipe follows)
Preheat oven to 375. Spray muffin pan with cooking spray. Mix dry ingredients together in large mixing bowl. In a small mixing bowl, blend together milk, eggs, oil, and vanilla. Slowly add wet mix to dry, stirring just until moist.
Pour 2 TBS filling in each muffin cup. Top with 2 tsp cinnamon filling. Place 1 TBS cream cheese filling in the center. Top with an additional TBS of batter. Bake for 15-18 minutes, or until the center is set.
Cinnamon Filling
½ cup butter
½ cup brown sugar
1 TBS flour
1 tsp cinnamon
Stir together brown sugar, flour, and cinnamon in small bowl. Cut in butter with fork or pastry cutter until mixture is crumbly.
Cream Cheese Filling
1 8-oz package cream cheese
½ cup powdered sugar
1 tsp vanilla
1 tsp cinnamon
Cream together cream cheese and powdered sugar. Add vanilla and cinnamon, stir until blended.
You will enjoy the lightly cinnamon cupcake with the cream cheese filling we all desire. As you can tell the recipe is very easy to make and perfect for the parade route.
Enjoy!
Those look so good! I love cream cheese fillings. This would make a great breakfast item
These look amazing! Pinned it for our Mardi Gras party at work!
I don’t think I’ve ever heard of a cream cheese filled muffin and I do love cinnamon–these sound really tasty!
They look tasty i would love to try them thank you for sharing.
These sound really cool. I’ve never heard of a king cake, though – but then again, Mardi Gras isn’t a big deal up here in the northeast.
Ohh, I love when a muffin has a filling. I love it even more if it’s cinnamon flavored!
My MIL is having a Mardi Gras celebration. I’m going to show her this!
These look really delicious! I think I would try them with the cinnamon filling, sounds so yummy! Thanks for sharing a great recipe!
Those look really good.. so good that I need to go make my lunch before I look at good treats like this.
Are there any left? My address is…. These look amazing!
Oh my goodness, those cream cheese filled muffins look absolutely amazing!!! I have to try that!
I love King cakes but just can’t make it. I think I could make these muffins so much easier. I know my brother would love these too, so I just may have to make these.
i need to invest in a good muffin tin set. When I moved I gave things away and now we have our own place again. I keep finding recipes like this that I want to go a head and make. Sounds like it’s something to put on my when we get our tax money back list lol that list keeps growing and growing. thanks for sharing.
You.are.killing.me. These look unREAL. I can’t resist cream cheese in any way, and I love the Mardi Gras decor.
I love anything with Cream Cheese in it! Those King Cake muffins look irresistible.
these sound so good and wow your pictures are amazing what kind of camera or photo edit app do you use
I love that these are filled with cream cheese as it is one of my favorite foods. They must taste really delicious.
Ohh they sound delicious – what a nice surprise inside as well with the cream cheese. x
I love anything cream cheese even though I know it isn’t good for me.
I have never tried a king cake before. These sound yummy!
they sound so delicious! I bet they tasted great
Those sound so yummy! I love the cream cheese filling.
What a nice recipe, sounds and look delicious! Thank you for sharing! Pinned it! =)
How many muffins does this recipe make approximately?