Pear And Walnut Muffins Food

PEAR AND WALNUT MUFFINS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400*F.
• Place walnuts in a food processor, process until finely ground.
• Gently spoon flours into dry measuring cups, level with knife. Mix flours, baking powder, baking soda and salt in a medium bowl, stir well with a whisk. Stir in ground walnuts. Make a well in center of mixture.
• Combine brown sugar, oil, vanilla, yogurt and egg in a small bowl, add to the flour mixture, stirring just until moist. Fold in diced pear.
• Spoon the batter into 15 muffin cups coated with cooking spray. Mix together sugar, cinnamon and ginger powder in a small bowl. Sprinkle batter with cinnamon/ginger sugar. Bake at 400*F. for 20 minutes or until muffins spring back when touched lightly in center. Remove from pans right away. Place on wire rack. Serve either warm or at room temperature. Enjoy1.

PEAR & TOFFEE MUFFINS

Steps:

• Heat oven to 200C/fan 180C/gas 6. Line a 12-hole deep muffin tin with paper cases. Tip the flour, baking powder, cinnamon and a pinch of salt into a large bowl, then stir in the sugar. Mix together the milk, eggs and melted butter in a large jug and pour into the dry mix all at once, along with the pears and a third of the toffee pieces. Stir briefly until just beginning to combine - the batter should still be quite lumpy and have streaks of flour.
• Divide the mixture between the cases, then sprinkle with the remaining toffee and the flaked almonds. Bake for 25-30 mins until the muffins are risen, golden and feel firm when pressed (the molten toffee will be extremely hot so be careful not to touch it). Remove from the tin to a wire rack to cool.

CHOCOLATE PEAR MUFFINS

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350°Prepare a 12 tin muffin tray with cooking spray. Using a mixer beat the eggs, sugars, oil, yogurt and vanilla making sure there are no lumps from the brown sugar.
• In a separate bowl, add in the flour, cocoa powder, salt, baking soda and baking powder until well mixed.
• Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and mix until combined.Add in the pears after mixing. Fill each muffin tin with batter.
• Bake for 20 minutes then cool the muffins completely before removing from the tin. Serve or freeze for later.

VANILLA PEAR MUFFINS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°.
• Grease 14 standard muffin cups with butter or butter-flavored nonstick cooking spray; fill the unused cups 1/3 full with water to prevent warping.
• Topping--stir together the sugar, walnuts, and cinnamon in a small bowl; set aside.
• Muffins--in a bowl, stir together the flour, sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, baking powder, baking soda, and salt.
• In another bowl, whisk together the eggs, oil, buttermilk, and vanilla until blended.
• Add the dry ingredients, stirring just until evenly moistened.
• The batter will be slightly lumpy.
• Using a large rubber spatula, gently fold in the pears and walnuts just until evenly distributed, no more than a few strokes.
• Take care not to break up the fruit; no not overmix.
• Spoon the batter into each muffin cup, filling it level with the rim.
• Sprinkle the muffins with the topping, dividing it evenly.
• Bake until golden, dry, and springy to the touch, 20-25 minutes.
• A pick inserted into the center of a muffin should come out clean.
• Transfer the pans to a wire rack and let cool for 5 minutes.
• Unmold the muffins; serve them warm or at room temperature, with butter.