Peachy Pear Muffins

🧂 Ingredients

• 3 cups unbleached all-purpose flour

  bleached flour toughens baked goods
• 1 1/2 cups granulated sugar
• 4 1/2 tsp. ground cinnamon
• 1/8 tsp. ground nutmeg
• 3 tsp. baking powder
• 1/2 tsp. baking soda
• 1/2 tsp. sea salt
• 2 large eggs
• 1 1/4 cups half-and-half
• 1 cup salted butter

  melted (2 sticks)
• 1 cup peaches

  peeled, pitted, diced
• 1 cup pears

  peeled, pitted, diced
• 1 cup walnuts

  chopped (measure after chopping

Instructions

• 1 Spray 6 dozen miniature muffin cups with cooking spray; set aside.
• 2 Preheat oven to 400º.
• 3 In a large mixing bowl, combine flour, sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, baking powder,
  salt and baking soda.
• 4 In a separate bowl combine eggs, half and half and melted butter.
• 5 Whisk until ingredients are well combined.
• 6 Add liquid ingredients to dry ingredients in mixing bowl.
• 7 Add peaches, pears and walnuts and gently stir until ingredients are combined
  and the flour is worked in, but do not overmix the batter.
• 8 Spoon muffin mixture into sprayed miniature muffin tins about three-fourths
  full.
• 9 Bake at 400º for about 9-11 minutes for miniature muffins or 18 minutes for
  regular muffin pans, or until a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.
  (See note below).
• 10 Cool muffin pans for 5 minutes before removing muffins from pans to wire cooling
  racks.
• 11 Yield: 6 dozen miniature muffins, or 3 dozen regular-sized muffins.

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