Pear Cinnamon Streusel Muffins

How hard is it to get a picture of a muffin I thought to myself as I looked through what seemed like 100 bad ones.  Let's not get distracted by the fact I took 100 shots of said muffin in the first place.  The muffin just wasn't having any of it.  I advised the muffin, look just sit there looking darn delicious and appealing.  Matter of fact turn your chin down a little bit to the right and you will eliminate the old double muffin chin.

Apparently the muffin didn't want my sage advice; neither did Hot Dog Dude when I told him he should probably review all the invoices before I sent them out for the third time the other day. Apparently my teenage daughter passed up on the advice of her older (yet wiser) mom when she downloaded crap I told her not to on my work computer.

It's okay, I had no plans for this morning besides backing up the computer before having it repaired and having to start all over again on the invoices that were stored on it that need correcting again.  It's flippin okay because I have my Siamese twins helping me at work in the office today and I have a whole container of muffins and no one is here to stop me from eating them all.  Also the boss isn't here to catch me wasting company time blogging instead of working.  Bwahahaha.

Pay back is sweet I tell you.

Pear and Cinnamon Streusel Muffins 

Muffin batter:

2 cups all-purpose flour

2/3 cup granulated sugar

2 teaspoons baking powder

1/2 teaspoon baking soda

Pinch salt

6 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted

2 ounces cream cheese, room temperature

2/3 cup milk

2 large eggs

1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract

1 teaspoon ground cinnamon

1 cup peeled and diced pears, 1/4-inch sized

Streusel: 

1/3 cup light brown sugar

1/3 cup all-purpose flour

3 tablespoons unsalted butter, room temperature

1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon

Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.

Combine in bowl flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, salt, butter, cream cheese, milk, eggs, vanilla, and cinnamon and stir to combine. Fold pears in gently.

Divide batter between 12 muffin cups lined with paper or foil liners.

In a small bowl combine light brown sugar, flour, butter, and cinnamon and crumble together with your fingers or a fork until the mixture starts to clump a bit.

Divide the streusel evenly over the 12 muffins.

Bake for 17-19 minutes.

p.s. Whenever I make anything with cinnamon it reminds of Becky - Baking and Cooking a Tale of Two Loves because she keeps her house stocked with a Costco sized container of cinnamon that she bakes up all sorts of treat with, besides the fact she is extra sweet herself.

Hope you all enjoy the rest of your day, I've decide today is a waste so why not polish off the rest of the muffins.

Gina