Cream Cheese Filled Banana Muffins- Partial FAIL?

The day after Thundersnowtrafficpocolypse, the federal government had a 2-hour delayed start... I decided use my 2 hours to make these cream cheese filled banana muffins.

The muffins tasted great- super light and fluffy-but the cream cheese filling was a bit of a FAIL in the sense that it basically melted into the muffin, rather than being a creamy filling. I should have consulted some other recipes for the cream cheese filling methodology- mine was super runny. Other recipes mixed the cream cheese with an egg yolk, rather than the whole egg like the recipe I used. I'll try that next time...

Whole Wheat Apple Muffins

I still had apple bobbing apples (Macintoshes) left, but they weren't crisp enough for straight eating, so I had to come up with some more apple recipes. This King Arthur Flour recipe got the seal of approval from Smitten Kitchen as well as some other bloggers, and I had all the ingredients, so whole wheat apple muffins it was.

These are pretty good! Lots of apples, the muffins were moist. I added some chopped walnuts for texture. I also ended up making mini muffins- I cooked them at 450 for 5 minutes, then turned the heat down to 400 and cooked them for 8 more minutes. It made about 3 dozen mini muffins.