Pumpkin muffins with cinnamon streusel

I was in Boston to attend a conference last month and I entered Trader Joe's to grab a bottle of water. I had five minutes to get in and out. In the span of those few seconds on the way to the cash register, I ended up grabbing a bottle of organic agave syrup, a store-brand brownies mix, and also a dry mix to make pumpkin bread.

Pumpkin and cream cheese muffins with pecan streusel

Cream cheese is a necessity in our household. When we run out, we go into panic mode. Even when my son won't eat anything else, he will eat cream cheese on toast. I'm no different. I love cream cheese on my bagels, in my slow cooker chicken stew, in my fettuccine Alfredo, and especially in my pumpkin muffins from Starbucks.

But you can't get Starbucks' pumpkin cream cheese muffins year-round and so whenever my craving hit when they were out of season, I was fresh out of luck. Until now.