Cream Cheese Muffins

One of our own, Mary Sharp, submitted this recipe as one she found in her drawer from a “past life” as a low carb HCG’er.  I looked at it and as submitted the “muffins” were 142 calories each with about 4 grams of protein.  This does not meet our personal calorie/protein ration of 1 gram of protein for every 10 calories so I stared long and hard and tried is with low fat cream cheese - nope, still about 100 calories and 4 grams of protein.  Last, but not least, I tried the recipe with fat free cream cheese and low and behold we now have a muffin with around 50 calories and 6 grams of protein.  VOILA!!!  Enjoy!

Ingredients

• Two 8 ounce Packages of Fat Free Cream Cheese
• 1/2 cup Splenda
• 1/2 teaspoon Vanilla
• 2 Eggs
• Cinnamon to Sprinkle On Top
• Muffin Pan and 12 Papers to Fill The cups

Directions

1. Beat all ingredients together
2. Place papers into each of the 12 muffin cups
3. Fill with batter
4. Sprinkle with cinnamon
5. Bake in preheated 350 degree oven for about 20 minutes

Nutrition:  Makes 12 muffins each with about

• 50 calories and
• 6 grams of protein

Variations

• Use pumpkin pie spice instead of cinnamon
• Fold in some wild blueberries (the teeny tiny ones) to the batter before filling muffin cups
• Top batter with 1/2 teaspoon of your favorite all fruit (no sugar) jelly or preserve