These Fresh Pear Muffins are super tender and delicious with the added flavor of ginger.

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Grab some fresh pears to make these muffins! Bartlett, Bosc, and Anjou pears work best for baking. Just buy them ahead of time to give them time to soften up a bit. In every bite of these fresh pear muffins you’ll get some juicy, ripe pear! This recipe comes from an older cookbook by Nigella Lawson: Nigella Express.

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Ingredients needed:

  • all purpose flour
  • white sugar
  • light brown sugar
  • baking powder
  • ground ginger
  • sour cream
  • vegetable or canola oil
  • honey 
  • eggs
  • fresh pears

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How to make Fresh Pear Muffins:

The complete, printable recipe is at the end of this post.

Preheat the oven to 400°F. and line a 12 cup muffin pan with paper muffin liners.
 
In a large bowl, whisk together the flour, granulated sugar, the ½ cup of brown sugar, baking powder, and ground ginger. In a medium bowl, whisk the sour cream, oil, honey, and eggs together and then fold this into the dry ingredients, mixing just until incorporated (don’t over-mix).
 
Gently stir in the diced pear and then divide the batter evenly among the muffin cups. (I like to use an ice cream scoop to neatly and evenly distribute the batter into the muffin pan.) Sprinkle each muffin with ½ teaspoon brown sugar and then bake for 18 to 20 minutes. 

fresh pear muffins in a muffin pan

Let them cool in the pan for a few minutes, then transfer them to a rack to let them cool completely.

These fresh pear muffins rise nicely and are super moist. With 1 teaspoon of ginger within, they definitely have a ginger flavor. Fresh pears are the way to go- they are just so fresh and delicious, especially when eaten while warm and oozing with the juicy fruit. The brown sugar gives it a crispy crust of sweetness on top. Enjoy!

fresh pear muffin

From RecipeGirl readers:

These muffins were killer! I’ve made a many a muffin but these topped every other muffin I’ve ever made. I substituted plain yogurt for sour cream and it was just as good. I also threw in some white chocolate for some pizazz. Cheers!

Fabulous recipe! Super moist and delicious. Thank you for this recipe.

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3.60 from 5 votes

Pear and Ginger Muffins

Tender chunks of pear mixed with a ginger-flavored batter that bake into moist, pull-apart muffins.
Prep: 15 minutes
Cook: 20 minutes
Total: 35 minutes
Servings: 12 muffins
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Ingredients

Instructions 

  • Preheat the oven to 400°F. and line a 12 cup muffin pan with paper muffin liners.
  • In a large bowl, whisk together the flour, granulated sugar, the ½ cup of brown sugar, baking powder, and ground ginger.
  • In a medium bowl, whisk the sour cream, oil, honey, and eggs together and then fold this into the dry ingredients, mixing just until incorporated (don't over-mix).
  • Gently stir in the diced pear and then divide the batter evenly among the muffin cups. (I like to use an ice cream scoop to neatly and evenly distribute the batter into the muffin pan.)
  • Sprinkle each muffin with ½ teaspoon brown sugar and then bake for 18 to 20 minutes. Remove to a cooling rack. These are best eaten when still a little warm.

Nutrition

Serving: 1muffin, Calories: 298kcal, Carbohydrates: 44g, Protein: 3g, Fat: 13g, Saturated Fat: 3g, Polyunsaturated Fat: 6g, Monounsaturated Fat: 3g, Trans Fat: 1g, Cholesterol: 39mg, Sodium: 90mg, Potassium: 100mg, Fiber: 1g, Sugar: 28g, Vitamin A: 132IU, Vitamin C: 1mg, Calcium: 72mg, Iron: 1mg

Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.

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9 Comments

  1. Merilyn Robinson says:

    5 stars
    Really moist and tasty muffins. I gave this recipe to my care giver to make for me and they turned out to be really yummy. She did lightly chop the pears because they were still quite hard even though I had kept them in a bowl at room temperature for over two weeks. They just didn’t get ripe enough but the muffins were tasty and moist and were great with a cup of coffee.

  2. Mhay says:

    5 stars
    Great recipe! Added 1 teaspoon crushed cardamom, because it’s a personal favourite, and they are so tasty. Will definitely make again!

  3. YM says:

    Fabulous recipe! Super moist and delicious. Thank you for this recipe.

  4. Philip says:

    Can you freeze them?

    1. Lori Lange says:

      I usually have pretty good success with freezing muffins, so I would think these would be fine.

  5. Beverly says:

    I added 2 Tbsp. chopped crystallized ginger, and the were amazing! These are wonderfully moist.

  6. Dede says:

    Made these GF style the other day.

    And I must say there where GREAT!!

    Thank you so much for sharing this recipe.

    Can’t wait to try more recipes from your site.

  7. loreleilee says:

    This is a great recipe,everyone who tried loved them added a tiny bit of black pepper and a little xtra ginger Thanks

  8. betsy evans says:

    These muffins were killer! I’ve made a many a muffin but these topped every other muffin I’ve ever made. I substituted plain yogurt for sour cream and it was just as good.I also threw in some white chocolate for some pizazz. Cheers!