These Vanilla Cream Filled Muffins are such a fun and cute recipe! They make a great dessert, but you can also enjoy them for breakfast if you like waking up to something sweet!
Vanilla Cream Filled Muffins Recipe
So I am a huge fan of dessert for breakfast.
Cake never tastes better than it does first thing in the morning. That’s my truth.
So obviously, I am all about doughnuts…or donuts…whatever.
It’s somehow an acceptable breakfast food.
Like, if you ask what’s for breakfast and I’m all, “oh just a slice of cake”, you’re probably thinking, “dude, what a fatty”.
But if I respond, “oh just a doughnut”, well you might still think, “what a fatty”, but somehow it’s not quite as shocking.
And really doughnuts are way worse..because it’s like deep fried cake. With frosting.
So today I have solved this major dilemma.
With muffins…because no one looks twice at you when you’re having a muffin for breakfast.
ANNND this here breakfast food is a cake, disguised as a doughnut disguised as a muffin…
Triple agent breakfast food. That’s serious espionage.
The inspiration for this came from the most delicious Dunkin’ Donut on the planet. The Vanilla Creme.
That donut is my honey. My boo. My soul mate.
But since I am allergic to preparing food with yeast (not really) and also deep frying (again, not really) I decided to make the cheater’s version.
What ended up happening was completely delightful.
Sometimes laziness pays off. The steps are easy. Let’s begin.
How to Make These Tasty Homemade Muffins
I started by using this vanilla muffin recipe.
You combine pretty much all your ingredients, except the milk, melted butter and vanilla.
It will kind of look like coarse sand…
Then add your wet stuff…
Fill your liners up about 2/3 full…
And bake them until they spring back to the touch.
You’ll have to let them cool for a bit before you fill them…
Using a pasty bag or a zip-top bag and a large piping tip plunge the tip directly into the muffin and squeeze the filling in.
You’ll see your muffin bulge a little when it’s full…
Mine cracked a little because I am a classic over-filler.
But I’m not losing any sleep over that little “problem”.
Then dust them with powdered sugar. I left mine in the baking tin, but you totally don’t have to.
See?
Then get to serving…
And of course eating.
Vanilla Cream Filled Muffins
- Prep Time: 25 minutes
- Cook Time: 18 minutes
- Total Time: 43 minutes
- Yield: 12 muffins 1x
- Category: Dessert
- Method: Oven
- Cuisine: American
Description
These Vanilla Cream Filled Muffins are such a fun and cute recipe! They make a great dessert, but you can also enjoy them for breakfast if you like waking up to something sweet!
Ingredients
Muffin
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 egg
- 2 cups all purpose flour
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1 cup whole milk
- 1/4 cup butter, melted
- 1 Tbsp vanilla extract
Filling
- 1/2 cup vegetable shortening
- 1/2 cup butter, room temperature
- 2 1/2 cups powdered sugar
- 1–2 Tbsp milk
- *optional 1 tsp vanilla
- Powdered sugar for dusting
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375°
- Line muffin tin with liners.
- In bowl of stand mixer mix sugar and egg together until combined. Then add in flour, baking powder and salt until mixture looks like a coarse sand.
- On low speed slowly add in milk and vanilla mixing until incorporated.
- Fill liners 2/3 full and bake for 18-20 minutes, until muffin springs back to touch.
- Cool completely before filling.
Filling
- Beat butter and shortening together until smooth. Slowly add in powdered sugar.
- Add in milk 1 tablespoon at a time until desired consistency is reached.
- Fill piping bag fitted with a large tip with filling.
- Plunge tip directly into muffin and squeeze 1-2 Tbsp of filling in. You will see the muffin bulge slightly. Continue until all muffins are filled.
- Sift with powdered sugar and serve.
Notes
Store airtight for up to 2 days.
Vanilla muffin recipe adapted ever so slightly from Dine and Dish
Nutrition
- Serving Size:
- Calories: 505
- Sugar: 59.9 g
- Sodium: 116.6 mg
- Fat: 21.3 g
- Carbohydrates: 76.6 g
- Protein: 3.5 g
- Cholesterol: 48.1 mg
These are the most gorgeous looking and sounding muffins – dream breakfast food!
Looks amazing!! The photography is gorgeous!!
Dessert for breakfast, yes I love it!!! Also the photography is awesome!
These look beautiful! I love the writing, photos, and RECIPE! I’m so glad I stumbled across this pin. 🙂
That first picture is GOLD! I love it! I love how you styled these pictures! I’ve love to try these with a chocolate cream filling, cause you know, chocoholic is my middle name!
Your photos are beautiful! Wow these look so goof!! Oh man, seriously i need one of these now!
These are stunning. I just want to dive head first into the middle of one, or ten.
These sound divine! And your pictures are gorgeous!
dessert for breakfast is definitely ME!
These looks so pretty and perfectly filled. I just LOVE the filling.
Can I replace the vegetable shortening with butter? Or would it taste different because I did that, and so, I’ll have to use the vegetable shortening?
Yes you could substitute for sure, and yes it will taste different, but it will still be delicious!!
Tks!