Wake-Up Muffins (via Comforts of Home Cooking)
Ingredients
- 1 cup chopped walnuts or pecans
- 3 tablespoons sugar
- 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
- 1 8-ounce package cream cheese, softened
- 1/2 cup butter, softened
- 1 1/4 cups sugar I used a heaping 1 cup
- 2 eggs
- 1 cup mashed ripe bananas (3 medium)
- 1 tablespoon instant coffee powder I used only half
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 cup semisweet chocolate chips or pieces
Directions
1. Line 24 regular muffin cups with paper cups. In a small bowl, combine chopped nuts, the 3 tablespoons sugar and cinnamon; set aside.
3. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in the bananas, coffee powder, and vanilla.
4. In a medium bowl, combine the flour, baking powder and baking soda. Gradually beat the flour mixture into the cream cheese mixture on low speed until combined. Stir in the chocolate pieces.
5. Stir in half of the nut mixture into the batter. Spoon batter into muffin cups, filling about two-thirds full. I measured out 1/4 cup per cup. Made exactly 24. Sprinkle with remaining pecan mixture. I used about 1/2 to 1 teaspoon of topping for each muffin.
6. Bake in a 375 degree oven for 20-22 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the centers comes out clean. Cool 15 minutes in pan on a wire rack. Remove muffins from pan and serve warm.
Yum.
The ingredients don't mention butter but the recipe does. Can you please correct? Also, what nut mixture? You don't mention a step where the nuts have to be mixed in with something else.
I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that the cinnamon and nuts are the mixture and that it' 3 tbsp butter and not 3 tbsp sugar. Please update asap as I would love to bake these.
Ugh. I saw that I missed the nut mixture part in step 1. Now I'm totally confused. Where is the butter coming from??
Nida, see step 2 for the butter. Step 2 is between the the lined pan picture and between the picture of the butter, eggs, and cream cheese. I apologize if the layout is confusing.
Looks great! But how much butter is needed for this??
Your creativity amazes me. Seriously, even if someone held my hand through this entire process I still couldn't manage ot make such a beautiful notebook!!
I love the Bay Area! Do you ever come down to LA?
Your girls are adorable.
Haha, that's what I get for giving this the title of "overachiever", I'm messing up left and right.
1/2 cup butter, Katheryn. I've fixed the recipe.
1/2 cup butter. I wanted to make these today but I will now make them tomorrow morning. Thanks for fixing the recipe.
Very nice muffins, look forward to trying these. And love the notebook idea, great idea for my grandson's school journal.
yummmmmmm!! and love the book cover too~ you have some mad talent girly!
Hey! Since your parchment cups turned out so beautifully, you have to try Skiptomylou's herb roll-up bread … you will feel like Julia Child and they will look so pretty with the parchment.
Overachievers make the world a better place!
Gorgeous notebook!
Oh, these muffins look sooo good. Wish I had some right out of the oven right now!
I love the notebook…and the thought you put into it…the sun so the flowers will grow!! And those muffins…can you send some my way!! They look delicious. Maybe I can get my hubby to bake me some so I can wake up to some sweets in the morning! Thanks for sharing!
How cute is that notebook! I found your link on Sew Much Ado and added you as a favorite this week to my blog. These muffins just look amazing and with coffee! I just can't wait to make them. Love your site!
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these look so yummy! 🙂
hi
we just had your muffins in Sydney Australia on christmas morning along with a few other things .They were great !!! Well done
Thanks for the recipe
Simone