These muffins are super good and are healthier than your average muffin.  They are made with half whole wheat flour, greek yogurt, hardly any oil and lots of zucchini.  So if you have zucchini coming out of your ears and are sick of having the same old zucchini bread try these today.

Ingredients:

Muffins

• 1 c. whole wheat flour
• 1 c. all-purpose flour
• 1 tsp. baking powder
• 1/2 tsp. salt
• 1/2 tsp. baking soda
• 1 tsp. ground cinnamon
• 1/4 tsp. ground nutmeg
• 1/2 c. plain non-fat Greek yogurt
• 1/4 c. vegetable oil
• 2 large eggs
• 1/2 c. light brown sugar
• 1/4 c. sugar
• 1 tsp. vanilla extract
• zest of 1 lemon
• opt.2 c. zucchini, grated

Cream Cheese Filling

• 6 oz. reduced-fat cream cheese, room temp.
• 1/4 c. sugar
• 1 large egg
• 1/2 tsp. vanilla extractpinch of salt

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

For the cream cheese filling:  In a small bowl, combine all ingredients and beat until smooth and creamy.  It might be runny, but that is okay; set aside.

For the muffins:  In a large bowl, combine the wheat flour, all-purpose flour, baking powder, salt, baking soda, cinnamon and nutmeg; set aside.  In a separate bowl, combine the yogurt, vegetable oil and eggs and beat until smooth.  Add the brown sugar, sugar, vanilla and lemon zest and beat until combined.  Last, stir in the grated zucchini.  Add wet ingredients to dry ingredients and stir until just combined. Do not overmix.

Spoon some of the muffin batter into a well-greased muffin tin, filling each cup around 1/2 full.  Top each with a heaping spoonful of the cream cheese filling (about 1 1/2 Tablespoons each).  Then, top each with more muffin batter.  Muffin cups will be full.  Bake for 20-23 minutes or until top springs back when lightly touched.  Yield: 12-15 muffins.

Recipe from Eat Cake for Dinner