Cheese-Topped Pumpkin Muffins

Recipe from Pinch of Love

1 cup Whole Wheat Flour
¾ cup All-Purpose Flour
½ cup Cane Sugar (can use regular sugar too)
3 tsp Baking Powder
1 tsp Pumpkin Pie Spice
¼ tsp salt
¾ cup canned pumpkin
½ cup milk
¼ cup oil
2 egg whites
4 oz cream cheese (from an 8 oz pkg) cut into 12 cubes
2 Tblsp brown sugar


1. Heat oven to 400 degrees F. Spray 12 muffin cups with cooking spray or line muffin cups with paper baking cups and spray cups with non-stick spray.
2. In a large bowl, combine flour, sugar, baking powder, pumpkin pie spice, and salt; mix well.
3. In a small bowl, combine pumpkin, milk, oil, and egg whites; blend well. Add to dry ingredients all at once; stir just until dry ingredients are moistened. Spoon batter into muffin cups. Press 1 cube cream cheese into center of each muffin. Top each with ½ tsp brown sugar.
4. Bake at 400 degrees for 14-18 mins or until toothpick inserted near center comes out clean (but not into cream cheese.) Immediately remove from pan, serve warm. Store in fridge.

Fruit Pizza

I brought this over to a friend's house for dessert, and her whole family loved it, so she requested I post the recipe. It is not the healthiest dessert in the world, but it is awfully good!!
(Shauuna @ Pinch of Love)

CRUST:
½ C powdered sugar
¾ C butter, softened
1 ½ C flour

FIRST LAYER:
1-8 oz package cream cheese, softened
½ C sugar
1 tsp vanilla

SECOND LAYER:
Any fruit combination of your choice (i.e. strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, kiwi, grapes, oranges, bananas, peaches, blueberries, pineapple, plums, etc)

GLAZE:
2 ½ T cornstarch
1 C fruit or pineapple juice (or juice from any canned fruit that you use-I used the juice from mandarin oranges)
¾ C sugar
1 tsp lemon juice

For crust: Mix powdered sugar, butter and flour. Pat in bottom of greased pizza pan or jelly roll pan (It will seem like there is barely enough, and the crust layer is thin). Bake at 300 degrees for 10-15 minutes, no longer. Cool. Make glaze next: heat all ingredients to a boil; cook until slightly thickened. Cool. While waiting for crust and glaze to cool, make first and second layers. For first layer, beat cream cheese, sugar and vanilla. Get fruit ready-washed and cut. Spread cream cheese mixture over cooled crust. Arrange any amount or combination of fruit on top of cream cheese mixture. Pour cooled glaze over pizza.