Maple syrup and pear muffins

 

Yum, maple syrup + pear muffins. 

I got the original recipe here.

I tweaked it a bit with the ingredients that I had (again), replacing yellow pear with green pear and omitting walnuts as I didn't have it at THAT moment. When. My. Son. Wanted. A. Muffin.

After having the muffin, I would definitely go with yellow pear in the future. Green pear was still hard after baking. There is a reason why certain ingredient is called for in a recipe. Lesson learnt!

I baked another version of this muffin (with the ingredients I had then) and both times the muffins turned out moist and not too sweet. Just lovely. But perhaps next time I'll stick to the original recipe and taste for myself the legendary muffins of the faraway land.

My ingredients:
a) Dry ingredients:
Self raising flour - 1 ½ cups
Baking power - ½ teaspoon
Cinnamon powder - ¼ teaspoon

b) Wet ingredients:
Melted butter - 60g
Maple syrup - 100ml (my maple syrup was sold in a 100ml bottle)
1 egg, lightly beaten
Milk - ½ cup
1 pear, cored and diced

Preparation instructions:

1. Preheat oven to 180C.

2. In a large bowl, sift flour, baking powder and cinnamon powder.

3. In another bowl,  stir maple syrup, butter, egg and milk together.

4. Mix dry ingredients to wet ingredients gradually, stir until just combined.

5. Mix pear into the batter.

6. Spoon into lined pans and bake at 180C for 20-25 minutes or until inserted toothpick (or be like me, use a fork or knife!) comes out clean.

Done and enjoy!