Pear and White Chocolate Muffins

These muffins are based on the Pear Muffin recipe in the Friendly food cookbook.

Pear and White Chocolate Muffins

Pear and White Chocolate Muffins (Amines, Low Salicylates, Low Glutamates)

• Canola oil spray for greasing muffin pans
• 1 cup plain self-raising flour
• 1 cup wholemeal self-raising flour
• 1/2 cup lightly packed brown sugar
• 2/3 cup milk
• 1/3 cup sunflower oil
• 2 eggs, lightly beaten
• 2 pears peeled and cored, or 4 pear halves in syrup drained
• 1/4 cup white cooking chocolate, chopped into small pieces

1. Preheat oven to 180 C and grease the muffin trays (makes 12 small or 6 large muffins).
2. Sift the flours and sugar into a large bowl, adding the husks from the wholemeal flour back in.  Add the white chocolate pieces and mix through.
3. In a separate bowl combine the milk, oil and eggs.
4. Mash the pears.
5. Combine the milk mixture, pears and flour mixture and mix until just combined.
6. Spoon the mixture into the muffin trays.
7. Bake for 18 – 20 minutes, allow to cool for 5 minutes than turn onto a wire rack.