Raspberry Cream Cheese Muffins

These are really very delightful and not the same old-same old muffins we always seem to fall back on. Enjoy!

• 1 3/4 cups flour ( sifted)
• 1 tsp. baking powder
• 1/2 tsp. baking soda
• 1/4 tsp. salt
• 1/2 cup melted butter
• 1 – 8 oz. pkg. cream cheese
• 2 large eggs (room temperature)
• 1/4 cup light cream
• 1 tsp. vanilla
• 1/4 cup seedless raspberry jam
• 1/4 cup butter, softened
• 1/4 cup flour
• 1/4 cup packed brown sugar
• 1 tsp. cinnamon

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease muffin tin. In a large bowl combine the first 4 ingredients. In another bowl cream the butter and cream cheese with a mixer until fully blended and add one egg at a time beating well after each addition. Beat in the cream, vanilla and jam. Mix with the dry ingredients until moist but still lumpy.

Mix the last 4 ingredients and sprinkle over he top of each muffin. Bake for 20-25 minutes and cool a couple of minutes before removing from the muffin tin.

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