Gastronomy612′s Weblog

Despite the cold weather, I truly love living in the North.  I love the change of the seasons, bundling up in bed (sans sweaters folks, it’s not really like Fargo), watching movies inside my warm apartment on cold days, and the sweet smells of cold weather foods, particularly cinnamon.  In an effort to get a jump start on Fall, I made these cinnamon apple muffins.  I also added pears because the pears I saw at the Lunds were just gorgeous, and fit into my fall theme.

David and I were invited up Nord for the weekend, thus necessitating this morning breakfast muffin made with not only APF, but wheat as well.  There were going to be six of us, and wanting to accommodate any flubs in baking or the possibility of wanting seconds, I doubled the recipe.  However, I did not use two pears and two apples, but one pear and to apples.

I used two golden delicious apples, and a Bartlett pear, which both hold up very well in any baking process, rather than turning them into apple/pear sauce.

Of course I used my apple peeler/corer not only on my apples, but on the pear too.  That puppy is a time and life saver.  I digress…I cored and peeled both fruits, then chopped them up real small.  Then coated them in the dry ingredient mixture. After mixing the wet ingredients together, In went the apple/pear mixture.  Fear not, it is SUPPOSED to be that lumpy.

After filling up large muffin cups with muffin mix, I went ahead and made some sugary-buttery-floury-cinnamony streudel to spoon on top. It seems like a lot of dry ingredients to mix together with not enough wet to incorporate them all, but it actually mixes well enough to get crumbly and not overly dry.

Into the oven and 25 minutes later, we had beautiful looking and tasty smelling muffins to bring up to the cabin.

Though tasty, I did make a mistake in traveling with them: I put them in an airtight container.  These muffins, because they contain fresh fruit do not need an airtight container.  The apples and pears inside of them keep them quite moist and with the container makes them too moist.  However I am unsure of what I would have used in place…But since you have now learned from me, you don’t have to fear making the same mistake.

huzzah!