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Over the past week I've been perfecting these pear muffins and my kiddos have been having them in their lunchbox almost daily. There have been no complaints from the kids though, so thats a sign that this pear muffin recipe is a winner!

Are these muffins healthy?

Because I am predominately a blogger writing about healthy eating for kids and families I always get asked if I would consider my recipes healthy.

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Do I think these are healthy pear muffins? Well they are definitely not a no added sugar muffin. But in my mind that's fine as I don't promote a no sugar lifestyle.

These muffins have one third of a cup of sugar. Which is on the lower side of sugar when it comes to muffin recipes. I use brown sugar in this recipe for no reason other than it being the sugar I found worked most nicely in this recipe.

I also use a 50:50 mix of white flour and wholemeal flour which helps increase the fibre content of the muffins

muffins in a cream muffin tin, chunks of diced pear visible on the top of the muffins — look at the lovely chunks of pears in these muffins

Best Pears to use?

It doesn't matter too much on the variety of pear that you choose. The one thing I would say is it needs to be a soft juicy pear.

If you don't have any fresh ripe pears available then tinned pears work beautifully in this recipe.

A tin of pears next to a measuring cup filled with diced tinned pears — Tinned pears work beautifully in this recipe

Muffin Recipes For Kids

I wouldn't necessarily give these muffins to my youngest kiddo, if you are looking for a no-added sugar muffin for baby-led weaning then I would check out either my baby-led-weaning muffins or my banana blueberry baby muffins both of these are soft muffins and sweetened only with fruit.

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My spinach muffins for toddlers and my carrot muffins are also great recipes that have no added sugar.

For my older school-aged kids, I'm happy to have muffin recipes that have a bit more sugar content in them, a favourite of both my kids and my readers are my kid-approved lunchbox spinach muffins, banana bran muffins and pineapple muffins.

My little secret - Silicone muffin trays

When I make muffins that have a high fruit content like these pear muffins, or muffins with chocolate chips I tend to use a silicone muffin tray. It just makes clean up easy and they pop out so easily with no need for greasing or oil sprays.

11 cooked muffins in a 12 cup red silicone muffin tray, tray held on either side by a woman's hands — They just don't look as pretty in the red muffin tray

a cooked muffin after being popped out of the silicone muffin tray being held up above the tray of remaining muffins — Pops out so easy, doesn't stick

My secret is, that for my photos I swap my muffins out of the silicone muffin trays, for no reason other than the coloured silicone trays I have look terrible in photos lol. So you will see the muffins in a cream muffin tray, but I didn't actually bake the muffins in this tray, it's my "for the photos muffin tin"