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Recipe courtesy of Cory Barrett
From: Food Network Magazine

Blueberry-Lemon Cream Cheese Mookies

  • Level: Easy
  • Yield: 10 mookies
  • Nutritional Analysis
    Per Serving
    Serving Size
    1 of 10 servings
    Calories
    320
    Total Fat
    14
    Saturated Fat
    4
    Carbohydrates
    46
    Dietary Fiber
    1
    Sugar
    25
    Protein
    4
    Cholesterol
    38
    Sodium
    214
  • Total: 2 hr
  • Active: 1 hr 15 min
Cooking in front of millions of viewers would be nerve-racking for most chefs, but not for Kalamazoo, MI, culinary instructor Cory Barrett. Cory appeared on Iron Chef America nearly 20 times as sous chef to Michael Symon before clinching the Spring Baking Championship title last May. The only tricky part was getting used to the new set: “The first episode I was a mess — I didn’t have a feel for where anything was,” he says. But Cory won the second episode, and his success continued through the rest of the season, including a team challenge with chef Kevin Dillmon. The two came up with a “mookie” — a lemon and blueberry muffin-cookie combo that won over all the judges. Here’s a recipe inspired by their treat.
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Ingredients

For the Muffins:

1/4 cup vegetable oil, plus more for the pans

1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour

3/4 cup granulated sugar

1 1/2 teaspoons salt

1 teaspoon baking powder

1 large egg

1/3 cup buttermilk

1/2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract

1 teaspoon grated lemon zest

For the Filling:

4 ounces cream cheese, at room temperature

1/4 cup mascarpone cheese

1/2 cup confectioners' sugar

Grated zest of 1/2 lemon

15 vanilla wafer cookies

3 to 4 tablespoons blueberry jam

Directions

  1. Make the muffins: Preheat the oven to 350˚. Brush 20 muffin cups with vegetable oil (use two 12-cup muffin pans). Whisk the flour, granulated sugar, salt and baking powder in a large bowl. In a separate bowl, whisk the egg until smooth. Whisk in the buttermilk, vegetable oil, vanilla and lemon zest. Stir the buttermilk mixture into the flour mixture until combined but still slightly lumpy (do not overmix).
  2. Divide the batter among the prepared muffin cups, filling them one-quarter of the way. Bake until beginning to brown, about 12 minutes. Let cool 10 minutes in the pans, then transfer the muffins to racks to cool completely.
  3. Make the filling: Combine the cream cheese, mascarpone, confectioners' sugar and lemon zest in a large bowl. Beat with a mixer on low speed, gradually increasing the speed to medium high, until fluffy, about 2 minutes. Refrigerate until ready to use. Meanwhile, pulse the cookies into coarse crumbs in a food processor.
  4. Assemble the mookies: Remove the domed tops of the muffins using a serrated knife. Transfer the filling to a pastry bag and pipe a ring on half of the muffins. Spoon about 1 teaspoon blueberry jam into the center of each ring. Top each muffin with another muffin, cut-side down, to make a sandwich. Roll the edges in the cookie crumbs, pressing to adhere.

Photograph by Ralph Smith

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Cookie Muffin Fruit Lemon Blueberry Dessert

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Vicki L.

When my father-in-law first had these, he told me that’s what he wants instead of his birthday cake. My family loved these, so fun to eat. I made a couple of recipe tweaks, I doubled the recipe so I could make nice big muffins. I backed off a little on the confectioners sugar, and used the zest of two small lemons in the muffin batter. I squeezed the two lemons and used the juice in the cream cheese mixture for mor lemony flavor. I also sprinkled some Vanilla Wafer crumbs in the cream cheese mix for a little texture, as well as rolling the Mookie in it.

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