Pear Upside Down Muffins Recipes

PECAN PEAR MUFFINS

Steps:

• In a large bowl, combine the flour, sugar, baking soda, cinnamon and salt. In another bowl, combine the eggs, oil and vanilla; stir into dry ingredients just until moistened. Fold in the pears and pecans. , Fill paper-lined muffin cups two-thirds full. Bake at 350° for 25-30 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean. Cool for 5 minutes before removing from pans to wire racks. Serve warm.

GINGERBREAD-PEAR MUFFINS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Grease 12 muffin cups or line with paper liners.
• Whisk flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, ginger, cloves, and salt together in a large bowl. Beat eggs in a separate bowl; stir in buttermilk, molasses, and vegetable oil until smooth. Mix buttermilk mixture into flour mixture until batter is just moistened; fold in pears. Spoon batter into prepared muffin cups.
• Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted in the center of a muffin comes out clean, about 20 minutes.

PERFECT PEAR MUFFINS

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.

PEAR UPSIDE-DOWN MUFFINS

Steps:

• grease nonstick muffin cups. line bottoms with parchment or waxed paper and set aside.
• Topping:.
• peel, core, and cut pears into 1/2 dice, place in a bowl. add sugar, raisins, and cinnamon, stir to mix.
• in skillet melt butter over medium heat, cook pear mixture, stirring, until pears are tender, about 5 minutes. divide amoug muffin cups and set aside.
• in bowl, whisk together flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. in separate bowl whisk buttermilk, butter, egg, and vanilla. add to dry ingredients and stir just until moistened. spoon over each muffin cup that has the pear mixture in.
• bake in centre of 375*F oven until toothpick inserted in centre comes out clean, about 20 minutes.
• let cool on rack for 10 minutes. invert onto baking sheet.
• serve topping side up.

VANILLA PEAR MUFFINS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 450 degrees F (230 degrees C). Grease or line 12 muffin cups with paper liners.
• Whisk whole wheat flour, all-purpose flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt together in a bowl. Whisk yogurt, oil, egg, and vanilla extract together in a separate bowl until smooth. Stir yogurt mixture into flour mixture until batter is just mixed; fold in pear and pecans. Spoon batter into the prepared muffin cups.
• Place muffin tin in the preheated oven; reduce heat to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Bake until tops of muffins are browned and a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean, 20 to 25 minutes. Cool in the tin for 5 minutes before transferring to a wire rack to cool completely.