Probiotic Pear Pecan Muffins | #ratingval# from #reviews# reviews | |
Prep time: 20 Mins
Cook time: 27 Mins
Yields: 21 Muffins
Want to bake pear muffins from scratch using fresh pears? Looking for a recipe that is simple to put together yet tastes great? This pear pecan muffins will fit your bill.
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 cups granulated sugar
- 2 teaspoons baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 cup kefir
- 1 cup avocado oil
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 4 cups chopped pear
- 1 cup chopped and lightly toasted pecans
- Preheat the oven 350F/180C for 15 minutes. Place the chopped pecans on a baking sheet and toast it in the preheating oven. Depending upon the temperature it might take about 5-7 minutes. Just keep a close watch so that it doesn't burn.
- Also line muffin tins with paper liners or grease it with non-stick cooking spray and set aside.
- In a large bowl combine together the dry ingredients and set aside.
- In a medium size bowl, stir together the wet ingredients.
- Stir in the wet ingredients into the dry flour mix and mix gently using a whisk or wooden spoon.
- Fold in the diced pear and pecans into the muffin batter. It might look like that's a lot of fruit than the batter but don't worry the muffins will bake fine.
- Fill each muffin cup around 2/3rds full. I got about 21 muffins for this batter. If you want to make 24 muffins, I think you can slightly decrease the quantity of batter for each muffin. You might be able to stretch it.
- Normally I would have made a couple of changes to this recipe like using whole wheat pastry flour at least for some portion of the all-purpose flour, using 1/2 cup each of unsweetened applesauce instead of 1 cup of oil, but didn't try all those healthy changes because I was in a hurry to make these pear muffins. I wanted something quick, tasty and something that I can manage with the ingredients at home. I am definitely going to try with the above tweaks shortly.
- I can also do with just 1 and 3/4ths cup of sugar instead of 2 cups. We prefer our muffins not too sweet.
- I had a lot of kefir at home so chose to use that as an egg substitute. You can simply use yogurt or buttermilk instead.
- You can also use apples instead of pear, walnuts instead of pecans. I prefer to use toasted nuts because it gives a nice flavor and crunchy texture to these pear muffins.