Creative Cookery with Carolyn -- Cream Cheese Muffins

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lawsontl asked me to share my Cream Cheese Muffin recipe and so decided to make a post. This recipe is actually a recipe that is not mine, but is a really popular recipe from low carb cooking sites. So I am not the creator! But, I have tweaked it to make my tastebuds happy by adding pureed fruit, yum!

First, here's pictures so you know what I am yammering about! The first is after the batters are poured into their muffin tins. Strawberry (red!) and blueberry (blue!). The two other muffins, cream and brown, are my leftover cinnamon ones. One can also add lemon juice for lemon cheese cake muffins. Or make them plain, and top with whatever jellies (sugar-free in my case) you have handy. Yummy!



And here they are in the oven, fresh and hot:



And a close-up!





Cream Cheese Sugar-Free Muffins

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

2 8 oz. packages Philadelphia Cream Cheese (really, the tastiest I've found)
1/2 to 3/4 cup sweetener (Splenda, I use erythritrol)
2 eggs
1/2 tsp. vanilla

Soften cream cheese for a minute or so in the microwave, add remaining ingredients. Blend until smooth. Line 2 6-cup muffin tins with muffin liners.

I defrosted about a half cup of strawberries and of blueberries, then using my hand-motor mixer thingy, pureed them, leaving them choppy. I divided my mix in two; half got the strawberries, half got the blueberries. With a spoon, I sorta whirl the fruit in rather than blend it. Prettier that way. Then I pour them into the muffin tins, stick in oven, set the timer (if your oven has one, as German ones apparently do not--at least not Nick's) and wait until the timer goes off, the tops are very lightly brown. Once done, voila! Out they come and they go right into the fridge. These are refrigerator muffins, and firm up as they cool. They will collapse a little, but no big deal.

These pretty much are my favorite sweet snack, since I am not into candy and such. I like one with coffee for breakfast on the days I don't do omelets, or for a snack later.

Each muffin is approx.:

146.8 calories
fat 14.8g
Sat. fat 8g
Cholesterol 47mg
sodium 140mg
carb. 1.12g
protein 3.74g



And in other news, my daughter found this little girl trotting down the street, close to getting hit. No collar tags, but a pretty collar, with a bow, and she is well-fed, and smells like she just had a bath. Tiff will post pictures of her tomorrow and take her to our vet--hopefully she'll have a microchip. Fingers crossed--she is super-sweet, and surely would've been hit. Of course, my pups are being kept in my room. Shelby would chomp her up in one go. Cute isn't she though? We'll find her home, I hope. Someone around here is freaking out I am sure.



PUPDATE: She is a 1 year old undocked tail Yorkie, no microchip, just home from a groomers (will be calling around shortly thanks a suggestion), nails fresh-clipped. Daughter said she only barked 1 time, this morning when Tiff fetched her from upstairs to take her to the vet's. We have a taker for her, one of the vet techs, if we don't find her home. Poor little girl woulda been smashed! Safe now, so we'll do the flyers tonight.

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We don't dock in the UK, but it's only been properly illegal in the last few years, so you still see docked tails about (it was technically illegal before then, but there were loopholes which have now been tightened, yay etc). There are exemptions for working individuals, but not for yorkies ;)

I'm sure someone is frantic for her right now. I hope she's chipped, that'll make things easier. If not, lecture the owners when you find them!

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No chip. Daughter said if they offer her reward money she will tell them "Use that to get her microchipped! and a TAG!"