My Blackberry Cream Cheese Muffins taste like they’re fresh from your favorite bakery! These moist, sweet and blackberry packed breakfast muffins are sure to get your day off to a great start.
If you love muffin recipes like we do try our Iced Pumpkin Banana Muffins too!

Blackberry Cream Cheese Muffins
My cream cheese muffins are the perfect breakfast muffins. They’re sweet and packed with fresh blueberries that color parts of the muffin purple. They’re gorgeous and delicious.
Why You’ll Love This Recipe
- Bakery Style Muffins. These muffins taste just as good as what you can get from your favorite bakeries!
- Easy To Make. One of my favorite things about homemade muffins are that they are easy to make and absolutely delicious.
- Great For Gift Giving. I love making a batch of homemade muffins to wrap up and give to friends.
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What You’ll Need
Here are the ingredients you’ll need to make cream cheese muffins at home. See the recipe card located at the bottom of the post for full details.
- Fresh Blackberries– Check your produce section for nice fresh blackberries. Make sure they’re washed and dried before adding to recipe.
- Salted Butter– For most of my recipes I use salted butter. Unsalted works too.
- Cream Cheese, Softened– Use a full fat cream cheese for the recipe.
- Lemon or Orange Zest– Use a fine grater to get the zest from a lemon or orange. Adds such a nice freshness to the muffins.
- Granulated Sugar– This fine white sugar adds sweetness to the muffin.
- Eggs– For consistency, I use large eggs in my cooking and baking.
- Pure Vanilla Extract– Use pure vanilla extract for best tasting results.
- All-Purpose Flour– Flour is the main dry ingredient in the muffins.
- Kosher Salt– Kosher salt is a course salt commonly used in cooking and baking. I prefer it over table salt.
- Baking Soda– Baking soda helps the muffins rise during baking.
- Baking Powder– Baking powder also helps the muffins to rise during baking.
- Heavy Cream– Heavy cream is added to the muffin batter. Find heavy cream in the dairy section of the grocery store.
How To Make Blackberry Cream Cheese Muffins
Preheat Oven and Prepare Muffin Tin. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. and spray a 12 cup muffin tin with cooking spray.
Coat Blackberries In Sugar. Place blackberries and sugar in a large bowl. Stir to combine so that berries are coated in sugar. Set aside.
Cream Butter and Sugars. Place butter, cream cheese, sugar and zest in a large mixing bowl, mix until well combined.
Eggs and Vanilla. Beat in the eggs and vanilla until well combined.
Add Dry Ingredients To Wet Ingredients. Add flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt to the wet ingredients, mixing gently until dough starts to form.
Heavy Cream. Drizzle in heavy cream, stirring gently to combine.
Blackberries. Gently fold in blackberries.
Fill Muffin Tins. Scoop muffin batter into muffin tins, filled 3/4 full. Can fill closer to the top, bakes just fine.
Bake. Bake the muffins at 350 degrees F. for 24-28 minutes, until toothpick comes clean from center. Let muffins cool for 20 minutes before transferring. Tip: Run a plastic knife around muffin edges while still warm to help loosen when removing.
Recipe Tips For Success
- Fresh Berries. Use fresh blackberries if possible. You’ll have less color spreading. If using frozen, your muffins will be more purple. Not the biggest deal, but I prefer using fresh.
- Generously Spray Muffin Tin. Make sure your muffin pan is sprayed with cooking spray for easy removal.
- Careful Not to Over Bake. Watch muffins the last few minutes of baking, don’t over bake.
How To Serve Muffins
Serve muffins for breakfast, brunch or any snack time. They also make the absolute best muffin tops!
How To Store Leftovers
Store any leftover muffins in a large Ziplock bag for up to 3 days in the refrigerator. Warm in the microwave for 15 seconds, if desired.
Freezing Instructions
To freeze cooled muffins, place in an airtight container or freezer safe bag in the freezer for up to 3 months. Thaw before enjoying again.
Try More Muffin Homemade Recipes
- Churro Cookie Butter Banana Muffins
- Peanut Butter and Jelly Blueberry Muffins
- Double Chocolate Chunk Zucchini Muffins
Blackberry Cream Cheese Muffins
Equipment
- Oven
- mixing bowl
- measuring cups
- measuring spoons
- mixing spoon
- muffin tin
Ingredients
- 6 oz fresh blackberries
- 2 Tablespoons sugar
- 1 stick softened butter
- 8 oz softened cream cheese
- 1 Cup sugar
- 1 Tablespoon lemon or orange zest
- 2 eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 2 Cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/3 Cup heavy cream
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F and spray a 12 cup muffin tin with cooking spray. Place blackberries and sugar in a large bowl. Stir to combine so that berries are coated in sugar. Set aside.
- Place butter, cream cheese, sugar and zest in a large mixing bowl, mix until well combined. Beat in the eggs and vanilla until well combined.
- Add flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt to the wet ingredients, mixing gently until dough starts to form. Drizzle in heavy cream, stir to combine then fold in blackberries.
- Scoop muffin batter into muffin tins, filled 3/4 full. Can fill closer to the top, bakes just fine. Bake for 24-28 minutes or until golden brown on top and cooked through. Remove and let cool.
Muffins are great. Ingredients mention 1/3 c heavy cream- directions do not mention the cream- is it fir the glaze?
These are great…I just made them in my regular muffin tin and they’re perfect! Love them, as does my 16-month old! Thanks for the great recipes!
My kids are loving the muffins!! Thanks for a great recipe!
I am making these muffins right now but I am using blueberries. Can’t wait to taste them!!
The Blackberry is the best gadget that i ever received as a gift from my best friend. It has nice features and the design looks very cool too.
I love cream cheese muffins. And with blackberries – YUM!
Too funny Cami!
Glad your family is enjoying the blog. It has been fun.
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Jenny!! Ok so my whole family is in LOVE with you, your cooking skills and your blog and we use your recipes often…THANKS! Oh by the way..CUTE SASSY RED SHOES (ya I totally saw them as I walked by the other day!) ha!
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P.S. Your photos are beautiful and the blackberry cream cheese muffins are making my mouth water. Maybe they will be my Saturday morning reward. =)
Hi Shanda,
I think the show is on March 2nd, but I’ll try to remind you. I hesitate to do that, because most of the time I make a fool of myself!
Emiline,
I agree about the big muffins, they look so much more appetizing!
Kimmy,
Tell Aaron thanks again for the great lesson for the kids, it was great! I’ll save you a muffin!
Those look really tasty…had a lot of fun at FHE tonight! You guys are the best!
Anything blackberry sounds great to me. Blackberries sort of intrigue me lately.
I think they look really good! I love the big muffins. I can’t make regular-sized, anymore.
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