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pear-cardamom brown butter muffins

pear-cardamom brown butter muffins

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  • This recipe was entered in the contest for Your Best Recipe with Cardamom
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    glutenfreegirl's Notes: We love the small heat of cardamom, like a tiny roar at the back of the sweetness. Its warmth reminded us of ginger and cinnamon. And we love cardamom with pears -- dripping juice with a bit...

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Makes 12

  1. Preheat the oven to 350°. Grease a muffin pan or line with muffin liners.

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  2. Set a skillet over medium-high heat. Add the butter and let it melt, then bubble, then brown, swirling it around once in awhile. Do not let the butter burn. Turn off the heat.

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  3. Add the grated pear, cardamom, ginger, and cinnamon to the brown butter. Stir them around to incorporate the brown butter into the ingredients. Set aside.

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  4. Combine the almond, buckwheat, and teff flours with the potato starch and arrowroot powder in a large bowl. Whisk to incorporate and aerate the flours together. Add the baking soda, baking powder, kosher salt, and coconut sugar. Whisk again.

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  5. Whisk the eggs, yogurt, and buttermilk together until they are fully combined. Make a well in the center of the dry ingredients and pour in the liquids. Mix with a rubber spatula until the ingredients are mostly combined. Add the pear mixture and crumble the walnuts into the muffin batter. Stir until everything is fully incorporated.

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  6. Fill the muffin tins almost full. Slide the muffins into the oven. Bake until the muffins are browned with a bit of a crunch, the top springs back to the touch, and a knife goes through cleanly, about 25 minutes.

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  7. Allow the muffins to cool in the tins for 5 minutes, then remove to a cooling rack. It's hard, but let the muffins cool for 15 minutes before eating.

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5 Comments on pear-cardamom brown butter muffins

Bowie_with_great_hair Reply

These were scrummy! Thank you. It's lovely to see something gluten free over here, and even nicer to see something done by weight.

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BEST EVER!!!! Easy to put together (after having everything ready to go). Love them and need to figure out how not to eat the entire batch in one sitting. xoxo

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Sounds good but just a question about the recipe--are you measuring the yogurt and buttermilk by weight or volume? It just says ounces but 5 1/4 oz is an odd amount for something that is always measured by volume so I'm wondering if you chose weight measurement for some reason. Thanks.

Shauna_headshot Reply

Karlynne, it is by weight. We actually weigh everything in our house for baking, since we have to weigh the gluten-free flours for accuracy. (They all have radically different weights, so you can't throw in a cup of one and expect it to substitute for the other.) Since the scale is out, we just weigh the liquids too. And it makes for less mess.

Our original recipe is in grams, so the buttermilk and yogurt would each be 150 grams. Since there is no grams option when writing the recipe here, I had change it to ounces! That's why the awkward measurement.

467656_3063519581919_1081358196_2884073_1059107948_o Reply

Wow, Love the pairing of Pears with Cardamom! Lovely Recipe!

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