Pumpkin-Cream Cheese Muffins
Jocelyn Delk Adams
Updated Oct 11, 2018
No batter needed for these pie-inspired breakfast pastries with a flaky crescent base and creamy Danish-like filling.
Pumpkin-Cream Cheese Muffins
- Prep Time 10 min
- Total 30 min
- Ingredients 6
- Servings 8
Ingredients
- 3 tablespoons packed light brown sugar
- 3 teaspoons pumpkin pie spice
- 4 oz cream cheese, softened
- 3 tablespoons canned pumpkin (not pumpkin pie mix)
- 1 can (8 oz) refrigerated Pillsbury™ Original Crescent Rolls (8 Count)
- 2 tablespoons butter
Instructions
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Step1Heat oven to 375°F. Spray 8 regular-size muffin cups with cooking spray.
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Step2In small bowl, mix 3 tablespoons packed light brown sugar and 3 teaspoons pumpkin pie spice; set aside. In another small bowl, mix 4 oz cream cheese, softened, 1 tablespoon of the brown sugar mixture and 3 tablespoons canned pumpkin (not pumpkin pie mix).
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Step3Unroll 1 can (8 oz) Pillsbury™ refrigerated crescent dinner rolls on work surface; press perforations to seal. Cut dough into 8 squares. Cut each of the squares into 5 rows by 4 rows to make 20 mini squares each.
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Step4Melt 2 tablespoons butter. Add 20 mini squares crescent dough to bottom and halfway up side of each muffin cup; brush butter on each square as an adhesive.
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Step5Sprinkle 1/4 teaspoon of the brown sugar mixture on top of crescent dough in each. Layer with about 1 tablespoon pumpkin cream cheese mixture, using all of mixture, and top with another 1/4 teaspoon brown sugar mixture, using mixture up.
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Step6Bake 16 to 20 minutes or until golden brown. Cool 5 minutes; remove from pan. Serve warm.
Nutrition
200
Calories
13g
Total Fat
3g
Protein
19g
Total Carbohydrate
9g
Sugars
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size: 1 Serving
- Calories
- 200
- Calories from Fat
- 120
- Total Fat
- 13g
- 20%
- Saturated Fat
- 7g
- 33%
- Trans Fat
- 0g
- Cholesterol
- 25mg
- 8%
- Sodium
- 290mg
- 12%
- Potassium
- 45mg
- 1%
- Total Carbohydrate
- 19g
- 6%
- Dietary Fiber
- 0g
- 0%
- Sugars
- 9g
- Protein
- 3g
% Daily Value*:
- Vitamin A
- 25%
- 25%
- Vitamin C
- 0%
- 0%
- Calcium
- 2%
- 2%
- Iron
- 4%
- 4%
Exchanges:
1/2 Starch; 0 Fruit; 1 Other Carbohydrate; 0 Skim Milk; 0 Low-Fat Milk; 0 Milk; 0 Vegetable; 0 Very Lean Meat; 0 Lean Meat; 0 High-Fat Meat; 2 1/2 Fat;Carbohydrate Choice
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