I had some trouble with these. The cream cheese filling came out nice, the muffins looked pretty decent (a bit on the shallower side, but fine). The color contrast was neat-- very orange from the pumpkin versus very white from the cream cheese mixture. I skipped the crumble topping to save calories. However, that said... the filling didn't touch the muffin cups [simple, basic paper ones] yet the muffins are totally stuck to them. I tried waiting for them to cool and trying to pop them out-- no luck. I tried using a knife to edge around- nope- they are just coming apart in globby chunks. I have them in the fridge now- we'll see what happens when I microwave one tomorrow. The main substitution I did was using applesauce in place of the olive oil, but it seems that other reviewers have done that with success. I also used splenda in place of sugar, and substituted some of the flour with whole wheat (perhaps this was the issue-- it may have made them more dense?). Flavor-wise, I wish I'd used some ginger or nutmeg (apple pie spice? pumpkin pie spice?) to amp these up. I doubled the cinnamon.
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