Pear & Ginger Cupcakes with Honey & Lemon frosting

I am so delighted to be baking this today.  My very good friend have recently become a mother to the most adorable little girl and her birthday was also this weekend. So not too sure what to get her, that i decided i let my creative fingers in the kitchen and make some sweet treat.
So i went for a Pear and Ginger cupcakes with honey and lemon cream cheese frosting.

Recipe for the cake is taken from BBC Goodfood, and the frosting is from Myrecipes.com.

Ingredients

Pear & Ginger Cupcakes

75g Butter
75g Light Muscovado Sugar
2 Eggs
2 medium ripe Pears, peeled, cored, (i used my blender and give it a slight blitz)
2.5cm piece stem ginger, finely chopped
1 Lemon zest, finely grated
4 Tbspn Semi-skimmed Milk
175g Natural Yogurt
175g Self-raising flour
1Tbspn Gound Ginger

Honey-Lemon Frosting

4oz Philadephia light cream cheese
1/4cup unsalted Butter, softened
2tspns Vanilla extract
2tspn grated lemon zest
1cup Icing Sugar
2Tbspn Honey

Method

1)Heat the oven to 200C/fan 180C.
2)Place the butter and sugar in a bowl, then beat until light and fluffy. Gradually beat in the eggs, then stir in the pears, stem ginger and lemon zest
3)Mix the milk into the yogurt. Mix the flour with the ginger. Stir a little of the milk mixture into the butter mixture, then stir a little of the flour into the mixture. Repeat until all the ingredients are used up, and being careful not to over-mix.
4) Divide the mixture between the muffin/cupcake tins. Bake for 35-40mins until golden. If you not adding the frosting can serve it warm with a nice cuppa

5)For the frosting - beat cream cheese, butter, lemon zest, and vanilla extract at a medium speed with a electric mixer until creamy.
6)Gradually add the icing sugar, beating at a low speed until blended.
7) Beat at a high speed until smooth. Add honey, beating just until blended.
8)Cool in the fridge for 20mins... then spread on the cupcakes. Scatter/sprinkle with chocolate sprinkles to finish. Ready to serve.

Tip: Although, i think overall the combo went well, but it can get a bit sticky.

Happy Baking!