Pear Upside-Down Muffins

Submitted by daisygrl64

"These cakelike muffins with sticky tops turn out of the pan perfectly, if you let them cool a little first. And Oh Boy....are these Fabulous!!"

 

• Ready In: 1hr 5mins
• Ingredients: 14
• Yields: 12 muffins

ingredients

• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1⁄2 cup brown sugar, packed
• 1 tablespoon baking powder
• 1⁄2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
• 1 cup buttermilk
• 1⁄2 cup butter, melted
• 1 egg
• 1 teaspoon vanilla

• Topping

• 2 pears, peeled, cored and cut into 1/2inch slices
• 1⁄2 cup brown sugar, packed
• 1⁄4 cup raisins
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• 2 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted

directions

1. grease nonstick muffin cups. line bottoms with parchment or waxed paper and set aside.
2. Topping:.
3. peel, core, and cut pears into 1/2 dice, place in a bowl. add sugar, raisins, and cinnamon, stir to mix.
4. in skillet melt butter over medium heat, cook pear mixture, stirring, until pears are tender, about 5 minutes. divide amoug muffin cups and set aside.
5. in bowl, whisk together flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. in separate bowl whisk buttermilk, butter, egg, and vanilla. add to dry ingredients and stir just until moistened. spoon over each muffin cup that has the pear mixture in.
6. bake in centre of 375*F oven until toothpick inserted in centre comes out clean, about 20 minutes.
7. let cool on rack for 10 minutes. invert onto baking sheet.
8. serve topping side up.

Reviews

[joanna_giselle]

These were lovely but I did find them a bit time-consuming, maybe because I tried to arrange the pear slices in an attractive fashion. I found a quick way to cut the circles of baking paper though. I folded a piece of baking paper several times into a long strip, circled the bottom of a muffin hole with pencil and then cut it out. I then used one of these papers as a stencil for the rest of the baking paper. In this way, I cut 12 circles in two minutes.