Name: Instant Pot Pumpkin Cheesecake Muffin Bites
Prep time: 30 min
Cook time: 7 min
Total time: 37 min
Yield: 18 Muffins
Ingredients: 1/4 cup Butter (room temperature); 3/4 cups Demerara Sugar ((or White Sugar)); 1 Egg + 1 Egg White (room temperature); 4 oz Homemade Pie Pumpkin Puree ((or canned)); 2 Tablespoons Homemade Yogurt ((or Buttermilk)); 1/4 teaspoon Pure Vanilla Extract; 1/4 teaspoon Allspice; 1/4 teaspoon Ground Cinnamon; 7/8 cup All Purpose Flour ((or Gluten Free Flour)); 1.5 teaspoon Baking Powder; 1/4 teaspoon Baking Soda; 1/8 teaspoon Sea Salt; 8 oz Cream Cheese (room temperature); 1/4 cup White Sugar; 1/4 teaspoon Pure Vanilla Extract; 1 packet True Orange Crystalized ((or 1/2 teaspoon Orange Peel, grated)); 1 Egg + 1 Egg Yolk (room temperature); 2 Tablespoons Homemade Yogurt (Sour Cream, or Heavy Cream); 1.5 cups Water; 18 Mini Silicone Muffin Cups; 1 60 ml Disposable Syringe or Pastry Bag (( or Pastry Bag)); 1 1.5 TBL Cookie Dough Scoop

Instant Pot Pumpkin Cheesecake Muffin Bites are the perfect bite of texture and creaminess, that will make your mouth smile. Easily baked in a pressure cooker.

Instant Pot Pumpkin Cheesecake Muffin Bites

Holidays just beg for cute and individual bites of something. Whether it be bites of dessert or bites of appetizers, every one loves to pop a little sweet into their mouth.

Using my Pressue Cooker Buttermilk Sugar Pie Pumpkin Bread recipe and my infamous Instant Pot New York Cheesecake recipe, I altered and combined them to create these Instant Pot Pumpkin Cheesecake Muffin Bites.

Fresh Homemade Pressure Cooker Pie Pumpkin Puree really makes these little Bites pop in your mouth. The freshness is so apparent.

Cast of Ingredients for Instant Pot Pumpkin Cheesecake Muffin Bites

Making Instant Pot Pumpkin Cheesecake Bites in the the Instant Pot, Mealthy MultiPot or Pressure Cooker is so easy. When I saw these Mini Silicone Baking Cups, I snatched them up and knew right away what I would create in my Instant Pot, Mealthy MultiPot or Pressure Cooker for Thanksgiving.

The timing was perfect. I just happen to have some fresh Pressure Cooker Sugar Pie Pumpkin Puree in my fridge.

Set aside the Egg Yolk

Separate out the yolk from one of the eggs and set it aside. We will use it in the cheesecake filling.

Mix together Dry Batter Ingredients

Make this recipe Gluten Free by using Bob’s Gluten Free Flour Baking Mix!

Mix all the dry ingredients together. This is simple – wet ingredients get mixed together and dry ingredients get mixed together. Then they both get combined with each other. Pretty simple.

Hand Mix the Muffin Batter

Rather than using Buttermilk, I used Homemade Greek Yogurt, so that the Batter would be slightly thicker to account for the wet Cheesecake Filling.

In order to make light and fluffy muffins, you must hand mix them and…..only enough to combine. You will see lumps and streaks of flour and egg and stuff. That is totally fine.

So, add the butter and sugar to a Mixing Bowl and cream together. Add the rest of the wet ingredients to the Mixing Bowl and hand mix together, just until combined. Batter will be a bit lumpy and that is fine.

Slowly add in the dry ingredients, a bit at a time and hand mix into the wet ingredients. Don’t worry about any lumps.

The Batter will be lumpy and bumpy

You can see that the Muffin Batter is just barely combined. You might see some flour pockets, which is totally fine. You do not want to over mix the batter.

This is what will give you a very light and fluffy muffin. Over mixing will cause dense, heavy and hard muffins.

Divide the Muffin Batter

DO NOT GREASE THE BAKING CUPS!!!!! The Batter needs to be able to cling on a bit, so that the Cast of Ingredients for Instant Pot Pumpkin Muffin Cheesecake Bites will rise properly.

I used a 1.5 Tablespoon Cookie Dough Scoop and divided the batter between 18 Mini Silicone Baking Cups.

Prepare the Cheesecake Filling

Make sure the cream cheese (I only use Philadelphia brand) and eggs are at room temperature. Combine all the cheesecake ingredients, except for the eggs and use your Electric Hand Mixer to mix together well.

I skipped my signature peels in lieu of True Orange Crystalized Orange. I thought a little punch of citrus would heighten the pumpkin flavor and it sure did.

First add the single yoke. Hand mix it through. Add the whole egg and hand mix that though, just until combined.

Add the Filling to a Syringe or a Pastry Bag

Add the Cheesecake Filling to a Pastry Bag fitted with a Decorating Tip, or slurp it up in a 60 ml Syringe, so that you can inject the filling into the Muffin Batter.

Using a 60 ml Syringe, is super fast and easy. If you think you might want more than one Syringe, it is cheaper to buy a pack of Fifty 60 ml Syringes.

Inject the Muffins with the Filling

I had to syringe feed Oliver, my sick cat a while ago, so I bought lots of these 60 ml Disposable Syringes. I spoke about that when I made my Pressure Cooker Chicken Feet Broth for Cats & Dogs. They work awesome in place of a Pastry Bag to inject filling into cake, muffins, meatballs, etc.

You can see that the Muffin Batter is all puffed up now. Divide all the Cheesecake Filling between the 18 Mini Silicone Baking Cups. I injected about 30 ml into each Muffin Cup of Batter.

The Muffin Batter will rise around the Cheesecake Filling.

Use Trivets to Stack the Muffin Cups

Add water to the bottom of your Pressure Cooker cooking pot and place a Stainless Steel Trivet. Place the Mini Silicone Baking Cups on top of the Trivet.

I have a long legged trivet, so I am able to place a double layer and get 12 into my 6 Quart Pressure Cooker.

In case there was a lot of action during cooking, I added an additional trivet to keep the Mini Silicone Baking Cups from falling over. I don’t know that it is necessary though. 😉

The inside of the Instant Pot Pumpkin Muffin Cheesecake Bites

You can see how the filling will stay nice and soft inside the Muffin Batter.

This reminds me of a Cheese Danish. The texture is similar.

Here is the Under Carriage 🙂

These Instant Pot Pumpkin Cheesecake Muffin Bites look cute upside down.

I bet you could serve them that way. What do you think? Yay or nay?

You can easily make these in advance and then freeze!

Instant Pot Pumpkin Muffin Cheesecake Bites

Allow to cool and then garnish with Perfect Homemade Whipped Cream and a dusting of Cinnamon and Shave some Whole Nutmeg on top.

More Instant Pot Pumpkin Recipes to Make.

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Watch Chef Sam make my Instant Pot Pumpkin Cheesecake Muffin Bites.

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