Pear Puffins

I've noticed lots of recipes for "puffins" on the Internet lately, and I don't mean the bird you find in more northern areas.  Puffins are pancakes but made in muffin tins.  I decided to try it this morning because I royally slept in and am not going to go running now that it is 75% humidity.  No thanks!

Pear Puffins

Preheat your oven to 350 degrees.

Prepare your favorite pancake batter as you normally would.  I also wanted to use up what little I had of my pancake mix this morning.  I added a touch of vanilla and cinnamon to my batter.

I didn't want to clean a bowl so tupperware it was.

I diced up a pear to be plopped in.  According to recipes I've looked at, you can add blueberries or strawberries or even cooked sausage.  Get creative!

I poured the batter into the heavily greased muffin tin so it was two-thirds full.

Just enough batter for six puffins!

Then, I put the pears into the batter.

Now they're pear puffins.

I slid the tin into the oven to bake for about 18 minutes.

They look like my peach muffins...

I let them cool for a minute or so before taking them out for consumption.  I tried several different condiments and decided that syrup (or seeer-up as Long Islanders say) was the best.

And topped with each condiment!