"Most cheesecake muffin recipes, like these raspberry cheesecake muffins, combine cheesecake with a second flavor, from fruit to chocolate to pumpkin spice. But these muffins were just plain, non-descript cheesecake in a vanilla batter. They also required quite a bit of effort in terms of preparation. These muffins come with a batter that you mix as well as a cheesecake filling, which you're instructed to layer between portions of the wet muffin batter for a cheesecake center."
"However, we found that it was too easy to overestimate the volume of batter we made, which resulted in us doling out too much batter to top all 12 cheesecake muffins. Barring the difficulty of use, the star flavor of the muffins was a major fail. The cheesecake filling smelled more like blue cheese and tasted just as funky and gamey when we bit into it."
Krusteaz's cheesecake muffin mix combined a separate batter and cheesecake filling that must be layered, making preparation fiddly and leading to overfilling issues. The cheesecake filling emitted a blue-cheese-like smell and a funky, gamey taste. The muffin crumb was bouncy and moist with subtle vanilla and cinnamon, but those qualities did not compensate for the sour, cheesy filling. Target customer reviews echoed dissatisfaction, citing extra work and off-putting flavor. The cheesecake variety underperformed compared with Krusteaz's stronger conventional and gluten-free blueberry muffins.
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