Nigella's Pear and Ginger Muffins

Recently got my grubby hands on Nigella Lawson's truly bestselling book, Nigella Express. So i've been testing out some of the recipes especially the baked stuff. Verdict: really nice cookbook for people who are in a rush, AND the food is yummy, too.

Anyway, i found this muffin nice, even tho no one else did.

250g flour
2 tsp baking powder
150g caster sugar
75g light brown sugar, (optional: plus 1/2 tsp per muffin for sprinkling, which if you want can be substituted with demerera sugar for more crunch)
1 tsp ground ginger
142ml sour cream (about 1 pot)
125ml vegetable oil
15ml/1 Tbs honey
2 eggs
1 large pear (the dark green type, firm) to be up to the weight of 300gm, peeled, cored and diced to 5mm pieces

Steps

1. Heat the oven to 200 degrees C, and line a 12 muffin pan with papers.
2. Measure all the dry ingredients into a bowl (flour, baking powder, sugar, brown sugar and ginger)
3. Whisk the wet ingredients in a jug/food processor. (sour cream, eggs, oil and honey), then fold in the dry mixture.
4. Finally, add in the pear pieces and spoon into the muffin cases.
5. Sprinkle the sugar and bake for 20 mins or until the skewer comes out clean.
6. Eat warm.

(Nigella recommends that you bake this really early in the morning. You can mix the wet and dry stuff at night, keep them separate with the wet mix and pear in the fridge and then combine in the morning. Sounds like a great idea!)