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Delicious and Easy Pear Muffins

June 27, 2019 By Amy 12 Comments

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These Pear Muffins are a delicious go-to breakfast or snack recipe. Especially in the summer and fall when pears are a-plenty at the grocery store. Read on to see what pears work best and how to make these muffins perfect every time!

Pear muffins with pecan streudel or crumb topping. Delicious and moist recipe

What kind of pears work best for baking?

According to Good Housekeeping Anjou and Bosc pears work best for baking. They hold their shape well and are easier to peel (although we feel that peeling is unnecessary for this recipe). We like to use Anjou pears in these pear muffins because they’re readily available and go on sale at the beginning of summer, plus they taste fantastic fresh or baked!

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Dietary Restrictions? Try these easy recipe adjustments!

Gluten Free

If you’re gluten free or making these for someone gluten sensitive, try replacing the flour with Cup4Cup (Amazon’s price is usually the best) for a simple and still delicious gluten free pear muffin. My other favorite is King Arthur Flour’s Measure for Measure. You can read here about why Measure for Measure is my favorite.

Egg Free

Easily replace the eggs with my favorite flax seed and water substitute. 1 Tbsp flax seed mixed with 3 Tbsp of water for each egg. Whisk until the texture becomes “egg-like”. See the egg replacement chart here at my Vegan Vanilla Baked Donut recipe.

Vegan Option

Replace the eggs with the flax seed mix mentioned above. The yogurt helps these pear muffins retain moisture and can easily be replaced with a nut-based yogurt. There are so many options available now. If you can only find flavored vegan yogurt, get vanilla, it will barely adjust the flavor.

The honey can be replaced with maple syrup or even just granulated sugar (make sure to get vegan granulated sugar though). The butter in the crumb topping can be replaced with any vegan butter substitute or chilled coconut oil.

Pear muffins with pecan streudel or crumb topping. Delicious and moist recipe

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Pear muffins with pecan streudel or crumb topping. Delicious and moist recipe

Tips for How to make perfect Pear Muffins

  • First, chop those pears up nice and small. The perfect size is about 1/4″ square. Any larger and they start to weigh down the muffin and it has trouble rising.
  • Mix your chopped pears in with your flour mixture to keep them from sinking to the bottom.
  • Always gently fold dry ingredients into wet to keep your muffin texture soft. Over mixing will cause dry, tough muffins.
  • Scoop evenly using my favorite OXO 3 Tbsp scoop. Scooping like this will yield 12 perfect muffins.
  • Bake at 425°F for 5 minutes. This is key to a great rise. This causes these pear muffins to shoot upward. Then lower your temp to 350°F to fully bake the center.
  • Topping – Almost every muffin tastes better with a crunchy, sugary topping, and these pear muffins are no exception. It’s optional, but really is better with it on top.

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Pear muffins with pecan streudel or crumb topping. Delicious and moist recipe
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5 from 7 votes

Delicious and Easy Pear Muffins

Moist and flavorful muffins for Summer or Fall.
Prep Time15 mins
Cook Time15 mins
Course: Breakfast
Cuisine: American
Servings: 12 muffins

Equipment

  • Muffin Tin

Ingredients

  • 2 C flour
  • 2 tsp cinnamon
  • pinch nutmeg
  • 2 tsp baking powder
  • 1/2 tsp baking soda
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 2 eggs room temperature
  • 1/2 C honey
  • 1/2 C coconut oil melted and cooled
  • 2/3 C plain yogurt
  • 2 tsp vanilla extract
  • 2 C chopped pears smaller chunks is better

Optional Topping

  • 1/2 C all purpose flour
  • 1/3 C brown sugar or coconut sugar
  • 1 tsp cinnamon
  • 5 Tbsp cold butter chopped
  • 1/2 C chopped pecans

Instructions

  • Preheat oven to 425°F. Grease a muffin tin and set aside.
  • Combine flour, cinnamon, nutmeg, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. Add chopped pears to dry ingredients and toss to coat. Set aside.
  • In a separate bowl combine eggs, honey, coconut oil, yogurt, and vanilla.
  • Pour dry ingredients in with wet and stir until just combined.
  • Evenly divide into medium sized muffin tin. Should fill each cavity to the top.
  • For the crumb topping: combine flour, sugar and cinnamon. Add cold butter and combine until fine crumbs. Add pecans.
  • Evenly divide crumb topping between muffins, if using.
  • Bake at 425° for 5 minutes.
  • Turn oven down to 350°F and continue baking for 11 minutes.
  • Muffins should be slightly browned and toothpick comes out clean.
  • Let cool in pan 5 minutes before removing to a cooling rack.
Pear muffins with pecan streudel or crumb topping. Delicious and moist recipe. #pearmuffin #muffinrecipe #muffins

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  1. Patty Purcell

    July 2, 2019 at 9:43 pm

    I can’t wait to try this Amy!

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    • Amy

      July 10, 2019 at 8:39 pm

      Hi Patty! Yes, these are Rachel’s creation and I couldn’t stop eating them. This is my new favorite way to use up those pears!

      Reply
  2. Piers

    June 12, 2020 at 12:52 pm

    5 stars
    Had to ask for this recipe from a friend who made thee last night! So good! Can’t wait to bake these

    Reply
  3. Bellini

    June 21, 2020 at 6:32 am

    5 stars
    Thank you delish recipe!

    Reply
  4. Linda Grimes

    August 13, 2020 at 9:53 pm

    5 stars
    Delicious! I’m making them again tonight because yesterday’s batch disappeared rather quickly! I highly recommend slathering them with butter before eating!

    Reply
  5. Eliana Ureno

    August 21, 2020 at 8:09 pm

    can i substitute coconut oil for butter? or another oil?

    Reply
    • Amy

      August 29, 2020 at 10:33 am

      Yes! Coconut oil will typically work well as a substitute in muffins, although my favorite substitute is plant butter (mostly for consistency). Let me know how it goes!

      Reply
  6. Rachel

    September 14, 2020 at 6:38 am

    5 stars
    I made these without the crumb topping and with 3 cups of pears and they were delicious!! They’re moist, fluffy, not too sweet, and they have a lovely spiced pear taste.

    Reply
  7. Tina Rene

    September 20, 2020 at 7:57 am

    5 stars
    Spectacular muffins. I am allergic to coconut so I substituted organic butter and I never cook honey so I used maple syrup otherwise I followed this recipe. So delicious it will be used again I am sure !

    Reply
  8. Mary

    October 9, 2020 at 6:15 am

    5 stars
    Omg the most delicious muffins ever, I made them with my dad’s pears from his tree. Absolutely delicious 😋

    Reply
    • Amy

      October 11, 2020 at 9:08 pm

      You lucky duck Mary! I wish I had access to freshly picked pears. So glad you liked them!

      Reply
  9. Gusta Hill

    December 16, 2020 at 3:53 pm

    5 stars
    Made half a batch as a tester. These muffins came out soft, with crunchy tops. Very delicious . Will make full batch for grandkiddos! Also enjoyed your tips, alternatives and links! Thanks for the love you bake!

    Reply

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