Banana Cream Cheese Muffins - #MuffinMonday

These muffins are accidentally eggless. I fully planned on using one of the banana muffin bases I typically use and then topping it with a cream cheese mixture which also needed an egg yolk. As I fell asleep the night before I planned to bake, I remembered that I had forgotten to buy eggs. I could have quickly run to the supermarket that's half a mile away, but I hate few things more than leaving my house. Eggless banana muffins would have to suffice. And suffice, they did. These muffins are soft, moist, and absolutely delicious!! It's hard to eat just one, so I stopped counting after I ate two. I don't need that negativity in my life. 

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Banana Cream Cheese Muffins

Yield: ~ 10 muffins

Ingredients 

Muffin

1 1/2 cups flour 

2 teapoons baking powder 

2 teaspoons mixed spice  (see notes)

1/2 teaspoon baking soda

1/2 teaspoon salt 

1 1/2 cups mashed bananas

1/2 cup brown sugar 

1/3 cup oil 

1 teaspoon vanilla 

Topping 

3 oz cream cheese 

2 tablespoons sugar 

splash of vanilla 

enough milk to make it "swirlable"

Directions 

Preheat oven to 350°F. Grease or line a muffin pan. 

Whisk the flour, baking powder, mixed spice, baking soda, and salt. 

Mash the banana with sugar until there are few lumps. Stir in oil and vanilla. 

Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients. Gently fold until just combined. 

Mix together the topping ingredients. 

Portion the muffin mixture into the prepared muffin wells. Then add a scant tablespoon of cream cheese to each muffin. Gently swirl the cream cheese in. 

Bake for 15 - 18 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into a muffin comes out clean. 

Clean. Hide from your family. Enjoy

Notes

• Eggless Banana Muffin adapted from The Conscious Plant Kitchen.
• Mixed spice is similar to pumpkin pie spice. In Jamaica, our most popular brand has pimento, cinnamon, nutmeg, anise, and orange peel. It's especially popular around Christimas time when it's heartily used in our fruit cakes. Here's a homemade mix from Ackee Adventures.

   

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