Cream Cheese Chocolate & Peanut Butter Chip Muffins – a deliciously soft muffin that verges on a cupcake!
As I’m sitting down to edit some pics and write up some posts, I’m realizing that I’ve been primarily making desserts lately. And of those desserts, like 80% of them are chocolate + peanut butter combos. I need to broaden my palate.
CREAM CHEESE MUFFINS

I loved these muffins.
The cream cheese makes them dense and moist and the chocolate sanding sugar on the top adds a nice crunch. Next time I’ll be even more generous with my sugar sprinkling. My mom even loved these muffins and she doesn’t usually share my affinity for chocolate and peanut butter.
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what beautiful muffins Melissa! Love the addition of the peanut butter chips. I am a dessert junky too..everything I pin lately is chocolate or a cupcake 🙂
Erin @ Table for 7
Thank you! & me too. My “to make” board is 95% desserts. Oy.
Melissa, these look so good, and your pictures are absolutely amazing!! Make me want to reach through and grab a muffin. 🙂
When and where does the 3/4 sugar go?
Oops. In step 1 with the flour, etc. I fixed it above. Sorry!
Thanks for getting back to me. I really appreciate. Me and my wife has tried your recipe and they are delicious. 🙂
Does the flour need to be unbleached?
No, you can use either. I typically keep bleached in my canister.
These look delicious! Can you make them and freeze them for later? Thanks!
Hi Shawna,
They are really good! So good that I’ve never kept them around long enough to freeze them… 😉 But yes, I think they would freeze well.