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Published: Jun 19, 2016 ยท Modified: Dec 14, 2017 by Nicoletta ยท 8 Comments

Cream Cheese Yogurt Chocolate Chip Muffins

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Cream Cheese filled Chocolate chip Yogurt Muffins, lovely texture, beautiful flavor. And your breakfast just became sweeter with a somewhat "healthy" approach.

Cherry Yogurt Cream Cheese Chocolate Chip Muffins

I am used to cook and bake without butter. My family hardly ever had (and still has) any butter in the fridge, my mother being stronglyย against it. We bought it once in a while just for risotto, because even my mother never finished a risotto without a dollop of butter, as tradition demands it. For the rest, when we wanted to bake, we used extra virgin olive oil, milk and yogurt. I have to say that my palate is now accustomed to those flavors, and cakes and cookies rich in butter are not amongst my ย favorite. Same destiny had the sugar, she usually cut the required dose at least in half and so our sweets were never too sweet.

 

 

As a consequence, even when I left home and started a family of my own, ย I carried her teachings with me. Olive oil and/or yogurt appeared in my baking all the time. Together with organic flours, often gluten-free flours, natural sweeteners, fruit, and good quality dark chocolate (at least 70%). Baked goods are my favorite breakfast and mid afternoon snack: loaves, coffee cakes, scones, and muffins alternate in my baking and I always make sure to have some. Of course there are recipes that I still make using butter, but if and when I can choose I switch to yogurt and vegetable oils (olive, canola, peanut, coconut, sunflower).

How these Cream Cheese Yogurt Muffins came to be.

Every once in a while we have breakfast at the cafe inside the Old Strathcona Farmer's Market where we meet some friends and we spend some lovelyย time there. While Loreto prefers his breakfast savory and usually sticks to a bagel sandwich, I like my sweets and lately found a pumpkin cream cheese filled muffin, ย so good. The muffin is pretty good but I can taste a good amount of butter. I wanted to recreate the cream cheese filledย muffin last Sunday morning for our breakfast. I searched far and wide on the internet but most of the recipes had butter amongst the other ingredients, so I thought to add "yogurt" in the search and among the ones that came up, I chose one that resonated with me. In the fridge we had a beautiful, creamy and rich cherry greek yogurt that I thought to be perfect in combination with the semisweet mini chocolate chips and the cream cheese filling, kind of like a "black forest" muffin. Delicious!

Cherry Yogurt Cream Cheese Chocolate Chip Muffins

I used my preferred muffin liners, that make for large muffins, ideal for breakfast and I got to use for the first time my new toy, aย Kitchen Aid mixer. So much fun in the kitchen, lol.

These cream cheese yogurt muffins were ready in almost no time for our breakfast. We split twoย open when they were just out of the oven, the steam coming out from the center, the cream cheese soft and oozing, with that nice acidic/sweet combination to the mix. ย They are moist and flavorful, ย morsels of mini chocolate chips a welcome surprise at every bite, the cherry flavor blending nicely with the chocolate and the other ingredients, giving these muffins a darker color with hues of reddish purple.

Cherry Yogurt Cream Cheese Chocolate Chip Muffins

Hope you enjoy them as much as we did. I froze a few just to have them ready for those times when we are craving them.

Song of the day: "Hymn For The Weekend", Coldplay.ย Happy Father's Day to my North Americanย friends!

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Cherry Yogurt Cream Cheese Chocolate Chip Muffins

Cream Cheese Yogurt Chocolate Chip Muffins


  • Prep Time: 10 minutes
  • Cook Time: 20 minutes
  • Total Time: 30 minutes
  • Yield: 12 big muffins 1x
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Ingredients

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  • 2 organic, free-range eggs
  • 2 cups all purpose flour (I used 1 and ¾ all-purpose +¼ coconut flour)
  • 1 tsp baking soda
  • 1 cup mini dark or semisweet chocolate chips
  • ½ cup light brown sugar
  • ½ tsp sea salt
  • 1 Tbsp pure vanilla extract
  • ½ cup cup vegetable oil (I used cold pressed organic canola oil)
  • 1 tsp apple cider vinegar
  • 1 cup Greek yogurt (I used cherry Greek yogurt)

Filling

  • 4 oz cream cheese
  • 1 Tbsp any sweetener you want

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 350ยฐF. Line muffin pans with paper baking cups.
  2. In the bowl of a mixer stir eggs with sugar and oil, beat until creamy.
  3. Add vanilla, apple cider vinegar, baking soda, and salt. Mix in Greek yogurt then, slowly, stir in flour.
  4. Lastly add in chocolate chips and mix gently with a spatula.
  5. Fill muffin cups with about 2 tablespoons of muffin batter. Add about 1 heaping teaspoon of cream cheese to the center of each muffin, then top with another 1 tablespoon of batter.
  6. Bake for 15-20 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center of a muffin comes out clean. (It depends on the size of the muffins, the smaller they are less time they take).
  7. Cool 5 minutes in pan then remove to a rack to cool completely.
  8. Store in an airtight container for up to three days or freeze for up to one month.

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  1. AvatarDemeter | Beaming Baker says

    June 20, 2016 at 7:36 am

    Nicoletta, these muffins look incredible! It was so interesting to hear that your mom didn't like using butter in any of her recipes. Also, how you grew accustomed to baked goods with olive oil and the like. ๐Ÿ™‚ It seems very clear from looking at these gorgeous photos that you didn't need butter at all to make these beauties. ๐Ÿ™‚ Also, woohoo on using your new Kitchen Aid toy! Isn't that mixer awesome? ๐Ÿ˜‰ Hoping you have a wonderful week! Pinning! xo

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    • NicolettaNicoletta says

      June 20, 2016 at 8:26 am

      My mother still doesn't like butter, and now that I'm not there it disappeared completely from their fridge ๐Ÿ˜‰ . Those muffins were incredible! We enjoyed them so much for our breakfast! I'm thinking they can be easily turned into vegan muffins! Have a wonderful week, you too, my friend!

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  2. AvatarMarisa says

    June 20, 2016 at 10:23 am

    Hi Nicolette, those muffins look just awesome and am sure they were delicious! My husband too prefers something sweet for breakfast, I am more of an oatmeal kinda gal! I will be trying these soon! Have a wonderful day????

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    • NicolettaNicoletta says

      June 20, 2016 at 10:28 am

      Thanks Marisa, they were awesome, I'm sure your husband would enjoy them for his breakfast. You can choose every kind of Greek yogurt or even sour cream. Let me know how they turned out! Thanks so much for stopping by!

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  3. Avatarannie@ciaochowbambina.com says

    June 20, 2016 at 3:35 pm

    I love that you incorporated cherry Greek yogurt with chocolate chips....such a delicious combination! I'm usually a savory kinda girl in the morning - but these lovelies could very easily change all that!! ๐Ÿ™‚

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    • NicolettaNicoletta says

      June 20, 2016 at 3:40 pm

      Thanks Annie, the combo is really delicious. We have many things in common but in the breakfast preferences we differ: there's no way to make me have something savory in the morning ????.

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  4. AvatarKathy @ Beyond the Chicken Coop says

    June 23, 2016 at 6:05 am

    Wow! These look wonderful. I must admit, I use butter when making muffins. I need to give olive oil a try. I can be sweet or savory for breakfast!

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    • NicolettaNicoletta says

      June 23, 2016 at 7:23 am

      Thanks Kathy, if you want, try yogurt and oil in place of the butter, and see if you like it, it's really good. I know, that if I put it to a vote, I'd be the minority in the sweet category (not in Italy, though ๐Ÿ˜‰ ).

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