These Iced Raspberry Muffins are loaded with fresh raspberries and topped with a deliciously sweet cream cheese icing. A perfect portable snack or a decadent breakfast treat!
So my kids have discovered a new breakfast love: Dinosaur Egg Oatmeal. Have you seen it? Little packets of instant oatmeal with candy dinosaur eggs that melt when you add the hot water....only to reveal tiny candy dinosaurs? Yep. They've gone crazy for it.
Can you blame them? What kid wouldn't want candy for breakfast? Especially when it kinda feels like magic!?
But here's the deal. I'm not actually convinced they like the oatmeal. They certainly don't like it as much as the dinosaurs....as evidenced by the fact that when the dinosaurs are gone, there's a 50/50 chance they'll ever take another bite....
And here's the other deal. As much as they love it, I really don't love it at all. I know it's fun....but candy for breakfast? It goes against every parental fiber of my being! I guess it's time for me to up my breakfast game. Again.
Iced Raspberry Muffins - Candy for breakfast!
Enter: Iced Raspberry Muffins. Loaded with fresh raspberries and real butter. And topped with the BEST cream cheese icing. A whole different kind of breakfast treat....and one I'm totally okay with my kids falling in love with!
Iced Raspberry Muffins
Ingredients
- 1 ½ c. all-purpose flour
- ½ c. sugar
- 1 ½ tsp. baking powder
- ¼ tsp. baking soda
- ¼ tsp. salt
- ½ c. sour cream
- ¼ c. + 2 Tbsp. milk
- 1 large egg
- ½ stick unsalted butter melted and cooled
- ½ tsp. vanilla extract
- ¼ tsp. raspberry extract
- 6 oz. raspberries
- 2 Tbsp. flour
- For icing:
- ½ c. powdered sugar
- 2 oz. cream cheese softened
- 2 Tbsp. milk
- Recipe adapted from The America's Test Kitchen Family Cookbook.
Instructions
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Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Prepare a 12-cup muffin tin with cooking spray.
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Mix the flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda and salt together in a large bowl.
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Whisk the sour cream, milk, egg, vanilla, and raspberry extract together in a separate bowl.
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Mix the wet ingredients with the dry ingredients and stir gently to combine.
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Add the melted butter and stir well.
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Roll raspberries in flour to coat. Remove from flour and gently fold raspberries into batter.
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Divide evenly among prepared muffin cups.
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Bake approx. 25 minutes or until muffins are light golden brown.
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Prepare icing by combining ingredients and mixing until smooth.
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Remove muffins from oven; cool in pan 10 minutes, then remove from pan and top with icing.
If you aren't a fan of sweet treats for breakfast, then maybe my Breakfast Egg Muffins will suit you better!
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Dorothy @ Crazy for Crust
That would totally be Jordan. She'd eat all the candy and then throw away the oatmeal so I wouldn't know. These look like the perfect muffins!
Gayle @ Pumpkin 'N Spice
Oh these muffins look so good, Cathy! I love raspberry anything, especially when a thick icing is involved. What a fantastic breakfast or dessert!
Kimberly @ The Daring Gourmet
That is total gorgeousness, I want these for dinner!! 🙂
Carrie @Frugal Foodie Mama
My son used to love that oatmeal with the little dinosaur eggs, lol. 😉 Luckily, my almost 4 year old daughter hasn't discovered them yet. She is still okay eating the raisin, date, & walnut variety. But these muffins! They look amazing! Love that cream cheese glaze.
Jenny | Honey and Birch
These muffins are so pretty!! I love that glaze!
Jess
I've seen that oatmeal, it definitely looks fun! These muffins on the other hand? These look incredible - I bet your girls gobble them up! I would :)!
Deb@ Cooking on the Front Burner
I want these NOW as I'm sitting here drinking my coffee! Do you ship 🙂 ?
Renee - Kudos Kitchen
These muffins look amazing! I love that deep red raspberry color that's suspended in that wonderful muffin dough. Too bad you can't add a mini dinosaur to the middle of your muffins. I'll bet the kids would love that!
Nutmeg Nanny
All morning should start with muffins and those muffins should definitely have glaze! Yum!
Heather | Heather Likes Food
My mouth watered looking at these pics! The top glaze with the raspberry sounds divine!
Kristyn
These look perfect! I will have to try these soon!
Shannon
Yum! These muffins look amazing!
I didn't even know that they still made that Dino Egg oatmeal! I think I might have to look for it next time I shop. It'll be a total 90s flashback! Maybe pair it with some Surge? Lol!