Surprise! There's a tasty pocket of cream cheese that bakes in sweet and easy chocolate chip muffins.
Surprise Chocolate Chip Muffins
- Prep Time 15 min
- Total 45 min
- Servings 12
- Ingredients 11
Ingredients
Filling
- 1 package (3 oz) cream cheese, softened
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- 1 tablespoon milk
Muffins
- 1 cup milk
- 1/3 cup vegetable oil
- 1 egg
- 2 cups Gold Medal™ all-purpose flour
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 cup miniature semisweet chocolate chips

Make With
Gold Medal Flour
Instructions
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Step1Heat oven to 400°F. Grease bottoms only of 12 regular-size muffin cups with shortening or spray, or line with paper baking cups. In small bowl, mix all filling ingredients until smooth; set aside.
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Step2In large bowl, beat milk, oil and egg with fork or wire whisk. Stir in remaining muffin ingredients just until flour is moistened. Divide batter evenly among muffin cups.
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Step3Place about 1 rounded teaspoon filling on batter in each muffin cup. Top with remaining batter.
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Step4Bake 20 to 25 minutes or until golden brown. Immediately remove from pan to cooling rack (may need to run knife around side of muffins to loosen). Cool 5 minutes. Serve warm or cool.
Nutrition
270
Calories
15g
Total Fat
4g
Protein
31g
Total Carbohydrate
14g
Sugars
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size: 1 Muffin
- Calories
- 270
- Calories from Fat
- 130
- Total Fat
- 15g
- 23%
- Saturated Fat
- 4 1/2g
- 23%
- Trans Fat
- 0g
- Cholesterol
- 25mg
- 9%
- Sodium
- 220mg
- 9%
- Potassium
- 95mg
- 3%
- Total Carbohydrate
- 31g
- 10%
- Dietary Fiber
- 1g
- 4%
- Sugars
- 14g
- Protein
- 4g
% Daily Value*:
- Vitamin A
- 4%
- 4%
- Vitamin C
- 0%
- 0%
- Calcium
- 8%
- 8%
- Iron
- 8%
- 8%
Exchanges:
1 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; 3 Fat;Carbohydrate Choice
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