Spiced Pear Oatmeal Muffins Recipes

OATMEAL PEAR MUFFINS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• Line a muffin tray with paper liners then set aside.
• Start by mashing the bananas in a large bowl. It's easiest to do this with a fork.
• Then stir in the egg, brown sugar, vanilla, and applesauce. Stir until there are no large banana lumps.
• Add the whole wheat flour, oats, baking soda, baking powder, cinnamon, and salt.
• Gently combine until no large streaks of flour remain. But try not to over mix. Then gently fold in the diced pear by stirring with a large wooden spoon, 2-3 times.
• Scoop the batter into a muffin tin, filling each cup nearly to the top. It should make 12 muffins.
• Bake for 16-18 minutes until golden brown. Insert a toothpick into the center of one of the muffins and check to see if it comes out clean. If it doesn't, bake for an additional 2-3 minutes.

PEAR CARDAMOM OATMEAL MUFFINS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400°F. Lightly spray or grease a muffin tin with oil. Set aside.In a large bowl, combine oats and milk. Let sit 15 minutes.
• In a second mixing bowl, whisk flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt, and cardamom.
• Stir the oil, egg, brown sugar and vanilla into the soaked oat mixture. Add dry ingredients. Stir just until combined. Do not overmix. Gently fold pears into the batter.
• Spoon the batter evenly into the prepared muffin tin. (If using the crunchy topping: Stir the butter and sugar until the brown sugar dissolves. Top the muffin batter evenly with the mixture as shown in the photo.)
• Bake 12 minutes. Remove from the oven. Let the muffins cool in the pan 5 minutes. Transfer to a cooling rack. Enjoy these muffins warm or freeze for later.

SPICED PEAR MUFFINS

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.

PEAR-OATMEAL MUFFINS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400°.
• Combine 1/2 cup oats, flour, and next 6 ingredients (flour through allspice) in a large bowl.
• Stir in pear, and make a well in center of mixture. Combine buttermilk and next 5 ingredients (buttermilk through egg), and stir well with a whisk. Add to flour mixture, stirring just until moist.
• Spoon batter into 18 muffin cups coated with cooking spray; sprinkle 1/2 cup oats evenly over batter.
• Bake at 400° for 18 minutes or until done. Remove from pans immediately, and cool on a wire rack.

MAPLE PEAR OATMEAL MUFFINS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Prepare muffin cups with a light coating of cooking spray.
• Combine dry ingredients (flours, baking soda, baking powder, salt and cinnamon) together in a bowl.
• Core and dice the pears into small chunks. Combine the pears, buttermilk, maple syrup, oil, sugar, egg and all but 2 tablespoons of the oatmeal together in a second bowl. Let sit for 5 minutes.
• Combine the pecans and reserved oatmeal together to use as a topping for the muffins. Set aside.
• Combine the wet and dry ingredients together until just mixed. Spoon batter into muffin cups, filling 2/3s full. Sprinkle with the pecan/oatmeal mix. Bake 18 to 20 minutes until a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean. Cool 5 minutes and remove from pan.
• Serve warm or let the muffins finish cooling on a rack.