Raspberry Cream Cheese Muffins (2024)

If you love raspberry coffee cake, then you're going to adore these Raspberry Cream Cheese Muffins! Studded with fresh raspberries, swirled with cream cheese and raspberry jam, and crowned with streusel crumb topping, these muffins are simply fabulous!!

I love raspberries. And I adore the way cream cheese and berries complement one another.

These are no ordinary muffins, my friends...in fact, they are arather decadent way to start the day. I could tell you how and why these muffins are so incredible, but, as they say, a picture is worth a thousand words...

Behold, theAnatomy of a Muffin (I know, I'm a dork. I can't help it, I married a geek and it's rubbing off on me after all these years):

These muffins are moist but fluffy.The cream cheese lends a creaminess to the muffins that is undeniably perfect with the tartness of the raspberries. And then there's theslightly sweet, slightly crunchy crumb topping.... ah, these muffins are - in a word -divine.

I guess I gave you both pictures and words, huh? Well, I'm feeling pretty passionate about these muffins right about now.

I ate the last one a few hours ago... guess it's time for a new batch!

🧂 Ingredients

• unsalted butter, softened
• cups sugar
• eggs
• vanilla extract
• all-purpose flour
• baking powder
• baking soda
• salt
• buttermilk
• cream cheese
• freshraspberries
• raspberry jam
• lemon zest
• Turbinado Sugar for sprinkling over the top (optional)

Crumb Topping:

• white sugar
• all-purpose flour
• unsalted butter

🔪Instructions

This is meant to be a brief overview of the raspberry cream cheese muffins recipe. For step-by-step instructions and a full printable recipe card with ingredients, please scroll down to the teal box below or Jump to Recipe.

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line two muffin tins with paper liners - love large muffin papers they are easy for the kids to unwrap, and make nice big muffins.
2. To prepare the topping,stir together the white sugar and flour. Cut butter into mixture with a fork or pastry cutter until it reaches a crumb-like consistency. Stick this in the fridge while you mix up the batter.
3. Cream together the butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Mix in eggs and vanilla.
4. Add the flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt and mix to combine. Then slowly add buttermilk until batter just comes together.
5. Finally, use a spatula to fold in cream cheese cubes, raspberries and lemon zest.
6. Fill themuffin cups about half full, and add about a half teaspoon of the jam. Add a bit more batter until the cups are about three-quarters of the way full.
7. Now grab the topping from the fridge andsprinkle generously onto themuffins.
8. Finally, top with a sprinkling of the Turbinadosugar, which will give the muffin top a bit of sweet crunch.
9. Bake for 20-25 minutes, or until muffin centers spring back when touched. Serve warm, or chilled. Store in the refrigerator in an airtight container.

⏲️ Storage

These Raspberry Cream Cheese Muffins should be refrigerated in an airtight container and they will last for about a week.

📖 Variations

• You can easily swap out the jam and berries in this recipe for other flavors like blueberry or strawberry.

Related: Raspberry Jam Oat Bars

🍴 Serving Suggestions

These raspberry cream cheese muffins are a delicious breakfast or snack. Serve them with some Fruit Salad to help fill you up for the day. Make a batch of these and a batch of my Cranberry White Chocolate Muffins and your holiday breakfast table is set!

😋 Similar Recipes

If you like these muffins, you might want to check out one of these other tasty recipes:

• White Chocolate Cranberry Muffins
• Banana Bread with Chocolate Chips and Coconut
• Strawberry Cream Cheese Pull Apart Bread
• Apple Cinnamon Muffins with Brown Sugar Topping
• Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Muffins

📋 Raspberry Cream Cheese Muffins

Not ready to make these delicious muffins yet? Don’t forget to pin this recipe for later! When you do make it, please be sure to tag me on Instagram@jugglingactmamaor #jugglingactmama – I’d love to see your pictures! And finally, if you get a chance, please comment and leave me a⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ rating below!