Ingredients

• 3 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 cup sugar
• 4 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 2/3 cup milk
• 1/2 cup vegetable oil
• 2 large eggs
• 8 ounces cream cheese, softened
• 1 cup sugar
• TOPPING:
• 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
• 1 cup sugar
• 1/4 cup butter, softened
• 1/4 cup finely chopped pecans

Directions

Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Grease/spray a 12-cup muffin tin and set aside.

Combine flour, 1 cup of sugar, baking powder, and salt in a large bowl. Make a well in the center.

Stir together milk, oil, and eggs. Pour into well in the dry ingredients. Stir just until dry ingredients are moistened.

Combine cream cheese and 1 cup of sugar. Fold about half of this mixture into the muffin batter.

Spoon batter into greased muffin pans, about 1/2 to 2/3 full. Spoon the remaining cream cheese mixture onto the muffins, pressing the mix into each muffin with a spoon handle.

TOPPING:Combine ingredients. Sprinkle generously over muffins. Bake 24 to 30 minutes until golden brown.