Pears are in season and I’ve been serving up homemade Pear Muffins for breakfast. For this particular recipe, I used Bartlett pears, but any other type of pear will be just as delicious. It is especially nice to bake a batch of it during the weekends and enjoy it with the family.
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These muffins are tender and moist with little soft chunks of pears mixed in. The cinnamon sugar topping with chopped walnuts gives it a nice crunchy texture. This is another little way to celebrate the fall season, and I hope you will give it a try.
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This was another batch of Pear Muffins I baked recently. I had finished decorating the house the day before with some beautiful pumpkins that I picked out at the farm. To see more on how I decorated for the fall season with pumpkins, click here.
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makes 12
Ingredients for the topping:
2 tablespoons walnuts, finely chopped
3 tablespoons sugar
¼ teaspoons ground cinnamon
Ingredients for the muffins:
2 cups all-purpose flour
½ cup brown sugar
1 teaspoon cinnamon
⅛ teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg
1½ teaspoons baking powder
½ teaspoon baking soda
½ teaspoon salt
2 large eggs
¼ cup canola oil
½ cup buttermilk
½ cup yogurt
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 ripe pears, peeled, cored, and chopped
Instructions:
1. Preheat the oven to 350ºF.
2. Line a 12-cup muffin tin with baking cups or lightly grease each with butter or cooking spray.
3. Combine the walnuts, sugar, and cinnamon in a small bowl and set aside.
4. In a large bowl, whisk together flour, sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. In another bowl, mix together the eggs, oil, buttermilk, yogurt, and vanilla. Add the wet ingredients into the flour mixture, stir until almost combined, and fold in pears.
5. Spoon the batter into the prepared muffin cups. Sprinkle the muffins with the topping mixture. Bake until golden and a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean, 20-25 minutes. Let the muffins cool in the pan for 5 minutes before turning them out onto wire rack to cool.
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see another pear recipe Here {Poached Pears}. . .
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Posted by Kay
I will be trying this recipe and i love how they look straight from a bakery with the brown paper liners…i need to find out where to buy those. Plus i went back to see your pumpkin selection and love the colors you chose…I pinned the grayish colored ones.
Hi Monica, I purchased the paper liners at Whole Foods Market and I’ve seen similar ones at Michaels’. They might also be available at specialty kitchen supply stores too. Good luck finding them!
While I was at the farm, I could have picked a dozen more of those gray pumpkins to bring home!!