I was invited for a dinner, a few days after I made that muffins on last post. Still being in muffins fever ^^, so I thought I’ll just made another muffins then. I still had some raspberries left, but it was not enough. So I made it this time with a filling and used the leftover raspberries only for the top of the muffins.
Mascarpone taste greats with honey, so I thought I tried cream cheese with honey instead of normal sugar. I don’t have any raspberry essence/emulco, so I put some mango essence in the batter and in the filling to see how it taste. Since there’s only so little raspberry, so I couldn’t really judge if it goes well together but as in the filling, somehow the mango essence tasted too artificial. Maybe one teaspoon is bit too much for so little filling.
Anyway I omited the usage of mango essence in the recipe below, since I wouldn’t made it that way again ^^.
Raspberry Muffins with Cream Cheese Filling
Recipe yield 12 muffins. Recipe adapted from blueberry muffins at Allrecipes.
Ingredients :
235 ml milk
1 egg
80 ml vegetable oil (I used Corn oil aka Mazola oil)
1 tsp pure vanilla extract
250 g all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
100 g white sugar
20 to 30 piece of raspberries for the top of the muffins, cut in halves if using less.
Directions :
1. Preheat oven to 205 degrees C. Line a 12-cup muffin tin with paper liners.
2. In a large bowl, stir together milk, egg, oil and vanilla extract.
3. Sift flour and baking powder together in another bowl, add sugar, whisk until throughly combine.
4. Pour wet mixtures to dry mixtures, and fold together gently using spatula or large wooden spoon until just mixed. (Note that it only until JUST mixed not until well blended, don’t overmix it)
5. Spoon batter into cups only half full. Scoop one teaspoon cream cheese filling (for recipe see below) on top of the batter. Cover the filling with one to two teaspoons of more batter.
6. Put two to three more raspberries on top of each muffin, press it lightly into the batter. Bake for 20 minutes. Serve hot.
Cream Cheese Filling
Recipe adapted from here.
Ingredients :
60g Cream Cheese
1 tbsp honey (25g)
1 drop of red food colouring if desired
Directions:
Combine all ingredients together.