Pear Muffins

AUTHOR
Eunice Scott
DIFFICULTY
RATING
3 4
COOK TIME
40 mins
TOTAL TIME
40 mins

Ingredients

Servings: 8
  • 100 g Wholemeal flour
  • 140 g Flour type 405
  • 1 package Baking Powder
  • 2 TEASPOONS Cinnamon
  • 1/4 TEASPOON Clove powder
  • 1 Egg
  • 120 g demerara sugar
  • 125 g soft butter (or 80 ml vegetable oil)
  • 2 TABLESPOONS Rum (or a few drops of rum aroma)
  • 180 g Yoghurt
  • 100 g ripened cream
  • 250 g fresh pears or from the can (the small one from the Metro)
  • 100 g Flour
  • 60 g Sugar
  • 1 TEASPOON Cinnamon
  • 60 g soft butter

Directions

  1. 1

    Preheat the oven to 180°C.

  2. 2

    Mix the sifted flour, baking powder, cinnamon and clove powder.

  3. 3

    Whisk the egg in a bowl and add the sugar. Gradually stir the butter into the egg mixture. Add the rum, yoghurt, sour cream and mix.

  4. 4

    Add the flour mixture to the egg mixture and stir until all ingredients are moist.

  5. 5

    Peel the pears, cut them in half and cut out the core. Cut the fruit into large pieces and carefully fold them into the dough.

  6. 6

    For the butter crumbles, mix the flour with sugar and the cinnamon. Add the warm butter and knead to a crumbly dough, so that crumbles are formed.

  7. 7

    Pour the dough into the muffin cups and sprinkle with the crumbles. Bake in the oven at 180°C for 20-25 minutes.