Pear Chocolate Chip Muffins

I feel like this recipe is part of the family now. I've made double recipes at least four times. We've shared them with friends, some are in the freezer, but most of them didn't last that long.

Mmmmmm.

I didn't know pear tasted so delicious with chocolate.

They are fabulous straight out of the oven, chocolate warm and gooey.

And also delicious cold, stolen from a fridge around midnight. ;p

I have about 15 pears all ripe at the same time. I think I'll have to make another double recipe. Or two.

Want to join me?

Pear Chocolate Chip Muffins
thanks to Jo Cooks for the recipe {I didn't mess with perfection}
1 1/2 cups all purpose flour
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
3 pears peeled and diced
3/4 cup sugar
1 large egg
1/3 cup unsalted butter, melted
1 cup chocolate chips

Preheat oven to 450 F degrees. In a large bowl, mix the flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt together. In a separate bowl, mix the melted butter, egg, and sugar together. Add the pears and mix.

Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and mix everything but do not over mix. Add the chocolate chips and mix until the chocolate chips are well incorporated in the batter.

If you’re not using muffin liners, butter the muffin pan and then add about two tablespoons of the batter to each muffin cup. To make these muffins bigger, fill the muffin cups almost to the top.

Place the muffin pan in the oven and reduce the heat to 375 F degrees. {Jo Cooks talks about this trick in her blog post -- how to make taller muffins.} Bake for about 20 to 25 minutes.