Spiced Pear Muffins Recipes

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400.
• Lightly spoon flours into dry measuring cups; level with a knife.
• Combine flours, baking powder, baking soda, and salt in a medium bowl; stir well with a whisk.
• Stir in chopped walnuts.
• Make a well in center of mixture.
• Combine brown sugar, cinnamon, ginger, oil, vanilla extract, yogurt and egg in a small bowl; add to the flour mixture, stirring just until moist.
• Fold in diced pear.
• Spoon batter into 15 muffin cups coated with cooking spray; sprinkle batter with turbinado sugar.
• Bake at 400 for 20 minutes or until muffins spring back when touched lightly in center.
• Remove from pans immediately.
• Place on a wire rack.
• Serve either warm or eat room temperature.

Steps:

• In a large bowl, combine the first eight ingredients. In another bowl, beat the egg, yogurt, oil and molasses until smooth. Stir into dry ingredients just until moistened. Fold in pears, raisins and walnuts. , Fill greased or paper-lined miniature muffin cups two-thirds full. Bake at 400° for 10-12 minutes or until muffins test done. Cool for 5 minutes before removing from pans to wire racks. Serve warm.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Line a 12-cup muffin tin with paper liners.
• Sift flour, 3/4 cup sugar, baking powder, 1 teaspoon cinnamon, baking soda, nutmeg, and salt together in a large bowl. Add pears; stir to coat evenly.
• Combine buttermilk, egg yolks, oil, and vanilla extract in a bowl; mix well. Stir into the pear mixture until batter is just moistened.
• Beat egg whites in a separate bowl with an electric mixer until stiff but not dry. Fold egg whites into the batter until just barely incorporated. Fill muffin cups 2/3-full with batter.
• Combine 2 tablespoons sugar and 1 tablespoon cinnamon together in a bowl; sprinkle over the batter.
• Bake in the preheated oven until light golden brown and tops spring back when lightly pressed, 25 to 30 minutes.