Irresistible when paired with chocolate, they are also delicious with walnuts or hazelnuts. But how many sweets with pears can you do?
We offered them to you in a savory version, now it's time to taste them as sweet. With the pastry, with the pastry, in the oven or simply browned in butter, pears are an ingredient with which to prepare delicious desserts, especially if accompanied by chocolate or dried fruit. Here are our tips to lick your hands.
Pears and chocolate soft cake
A perfect cake for breakfast. Whip three eggs with 180 g of sugar until a frothy mixture is obtained. Add 250 g of whole yoghurt, 75 g of melted butter, 180 g of flour with baking powder and two tablespoons of milk. Mix well. Chop up 150 g of dark chocolate and add it to the dough. Then cut two abbot pears and cut them into slices. Pour the mixture into a cake pan, place the pears on top, bake at 180 ° for 30 minutes and enjoy.
Pear muffins
A perfect sweet to serve with tea at five o'clock or after lunch. Mix 100 g of flour, 100 of sugar, yeast and two tablespoons of bitter cocoa. In another bowl put the pear cut into small pieces, a tablespoon of sugar, a pinch of ginger and a tablespoon of lemon juice. Add to the pears 1 egg, 125 g of whole yogurt and two tablespoons of olive oil. Mix and fill the muffin molds for 2/3, bake at 170 degrees for 15 minutes and serve hot.
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Bella Elena tart
A pastry classic, this tart is a dessert that you can no longer do without after tasting it. Prepare a tart with 300 g of flour, 120 of sugar, 170 of butter, a pinch of salt, the grated peel of a lemon possibly untreated, an egg yolk and a whole egg. Place the dough in the refrigerator for half an hour; in the meantime prepare a custard cream to which you will add 300 g of dark chocolate. Spread the dough in a buttered and floured cake pan, cover it with abbot pears cut into slices and cover everything with the chocolate cream. Bake at 180 degrees for 30 minutes, let cool and serve.
Tatin with pears
I find that this version of Tarte Tatin is much tastier than the classic one with apples. Prepare it by browning the sliced pears in a little butter and a tablespoon of brown sugar. When they are caramelized, pour them in a buttered size, add chopped walnuts and cover with a roll of puff pastry. Bake and cook for 20 minutes. Turn the Tarte Tatin upside down and serve with a scoop of cream ice cream.
Pear and cinnamon crumble
A very tasty and fast sweet meal to prepare. Mix the chopped pears with two tablespoons of cinnamon, 2 tablespoons of cornstarch and place them in small buttered cocotte. Mix 2 tablespoons of brown sugar with the dry biscuits and two tablespoons of butter. Pour the biscuits over the pears and bake at 180 degrees for 20 minutes. Remove from the oven and serve.
Baked Pears
The addition of ricotta enriches this recipe: to prepare them you have to cut the pears a little above half, you have to empty them with a teaspoon of the core and the pulp and cut it into cubes. Fry it with a knob of butter, add the ricotta, the peel of an orange and refill the pears with this mixture. Re-close them with the part you had cut, place them in a baking dish, cover them with the orange juice and bake at 250 ° for 20 minutes. When they are ready, serve them with their sauce and with a sprinkling of icing sugar.
Vol au vent of pears
For these sweets you can use ready-made volu vent or you can prepare them with puff pastry. Wash and peel 4 pears, cut them and cut them into slices. Let them stew in a pan with a little butter, the grated rind of a lemon and a dash of wine and when they are cooked, mash them with a fork until they are reduced to a puree. Slice another pear and brown it in a pan with a knob of butter, add some sugar and let it caramelize. Fill the vol au vent with the pear puree, complete with the slices of caramelized pear and chopped walnuts. Serve immediately.
Pears in cream with hazelnuts
Prepare these little glasses by cutting the pears into slices and browning them in a knob of butter. Add the crumbled hazelnuts and aside prepare a pastry cream to which you will add some dark chocolate flakes. Place the cream on the bottom of the glass, add the pears with the hazelnuts and sprinkle with cinnamon.
Pear pudding
An easy to prepare dessert that will give you a lot of satisfaction. First, cook the pears in a knob of butter, mash them and add them to the slices of pan carré to which you have removed the crust. Add 200 g of liquid cream, 4 eggs, 120 g of sugar, a tablespoon of flour to the pears and mix until the mixture is uniform. Pour it into buttered molds and sprinkle with brown sugar, bake at 180 ° for 30 minutes and when ready, turn them on a serving dish. Garnish the puddings with a cream made with a little dark chocolate melted in a drop of milk.
Puff pastry bundles
These little bundles are very quick to prepare and are perfect to serve at the end of a lunch with friends. Brown the pears in a knob of butter with a tablespoon of brown sugar. When they are soft, add chopped walnuts, roll out the puff pastry and cut into small disks. Stuff each disk with a tablespoon of pear puree, brush the edge of the pastry with a beaten egg, seal well and brush the outside of the bundles with the egg. Bake at 180 degrees for 20 minutes, take them out of the oven and serve warm.
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