Topped with oats, brown sugar, and cinnamon, these baked pears make the perfect low-calorie cobbler-like treat! Serve them with a side of ice surf for a succulent dessert, or eat them in the morning with some yogurt for a perfectly sweet start to your day.
Fall is one of my favorite seasons for baking! The house has finally cooled off unbearable to enjoy turning on the oven, and there are so many fresh fruits that taste plane largest baked. This baked pear dessert is similar to a cobbler, which just happens to be one of my fall favorites! If you want a really unconfined fall cobbler recipe, try this Old Fashioned Apple Cobbler, or these succulent Mini Peach Cobblers. I can’t forget a new favorite of mine, this Strawberry Cobbler!
Baked Pears Recipe
I’ve had so many baked apples in my lifetime, I can’t believe it took me until now to try a baked pear. If you are a fan of simple and quick fruity desserts, this is the recipe for you! This baked pear packs all the flavors of a cobbler with half the work. I love how easy these were to whip up and how they veritably blew yonder my guests. This recipe calls for 3 pears, which will make unbearable for 6 servings, but you can hands double this recipe to feed a crowd!
One of my favorite ways to enjoy ripe fruit in the fall is to torch them! Sultry pears brings out all of their natural sweetness and goes so well with fall spices, like this Homemade Pumpkin Pie Spice. These pears are unconfined warm or cold, so they make an wondrous holiday breakfast snack. I love how versatile the ingredients are, and had a wonderful time serving these to my guests. I will definitely be making them then soon!
Baked Pear Ingredients
This recipe has 6 simple ingredients, but they really are all you need to create a wonderful fall dessert! Switch up the ingredients to create all kinds of wonderful savor profiles that your family will love.
- Pears: I used D’Anjou pears for this recipe, but your favorite pear will work great! Just make sure they aren’t overripe, or they will get mushy when you torch them.
- Brown Sugar: This adds that perfect sweetness to the crumble on top, you don’t want to skip this ingredient!
- Flour: I used all-purpose for this recipe. It helps to alimony the topping together without it’s baked.
- Rolled Oats: You can use old-fashioned or instant since they will soften in the oven either way.
- Cinnamon: This adds the perfect warm fall savor to the dish!
- Salt: Just a little salt brings out the flavors in all of the ingredients!
- Butter: Considering you are once subtracting salt, use unsalted butter. If you only have salted butter on hand, cut when on the salt in this recipe.
Baked Pear Instructions
These baked pears take well-nigh 10 minutes to prep and are so trappy when baked, you’ll come when to this recipe time and time again! I personally loved having one for breakfast the next day.
- Prep: Preheat the oven to 375° Fahrenheit, and spray a 13×9 sultry dish with non-stick cooking spray.
- Slice: Wash and dry the pears, then slice vertically lanugo the part-way of each pear.
- Hollow: Use a melon baller or a spoon to spoon out the seeds and create a small section to fill with the topping. I moreover like to cut off a small section in the when of each pear to help them lay unappetizing in the sultry dish.
- Set in Dish: Place the pears in the prepared sultry dish.
- Whisk: In a medium bowl, whisk together the brown sugar, flour, oats, cinnamon, and salt.
- Cut Butter: Toss the pieces of butter in with the ingredients and use a pastry blender, two knives, your fingers, or anything else to cut the butter in until the mixture is crumbly.
- Top Pears: Sprinkle the topping evenly over the pears in the prepared sultry dish.
- Bake: Bake in preheated oven for 35-40 minutes until pears are fork tender.
- Serve: Serve with ice surf on top and/or a drizzle of honey for uneaten sweetness!
Other Topping Ideas
The weightier thing well-nigh this recipe is it is so easy to switch it up and make it your own! Here are a few ideas of other yummy toppings you could use to take this baked pear to the next level.
- Nuts: Walnuts, pecans, or slivered almonds add uneaten savor and nutrients!
- Honey: Instead of brown sugar, use honey! This natural sugar is sweet, and you can use less of it to get the same unconfined flavor.
- Vanilla Frozen Yogurt: If you are looking to alimony this recipe lower calorie but don’t want to miss out on a linty side, vanilla frozen yogurt is the perfect pair (see what I did there?).
- Maple Syrup: Another substitution for brown sugar, maple syrup goes perfectly with the savor of the pear and cinnamon!
- Apple Pie Spice: If you alimony this spice tousle on hand as I do, use it! The cinnamon, nutmeg, cardamom and ginger take this baked pear recipe to the next level!
What Kinds Of Pears To Use:
Feel self-ruling to use any type of pear for this recipe, your favorite pear is the weightier pear! I LOVE to use D’Anjou pears, but any pear works great. I unchangingly use Asian pears virtually the holidays when I want to impress my guests with a fancier presentation. It helps for the pears to be ripe but still slightly firm. If the pears are over-ripe they will get too soft when you torch them. If the pears are under-ripe they will take longer to bake, so be sure to retread the time equal to the ripeness of your pears.
How to Store your Leftovers
These baked pears make perfect leftovers considering they can be enjoyed warm or cold!
- In the Fridge: Store in an airtight container for 3-5 days in the fridge, but I doubt they will last that long surpassing stuff eaten!
- To Reheat: These are hands reheated in the microwave or in the oven, and taste just as good! They can moreover be eaten unprepossessed with yogurt for a nice breakfast.
Other Fall Desserts to Try
Baked Pears
Ingredients
- 3 pears
- 1/4 cup brown sugar
- 1/4 cup flour
- 1/4 cup rolled oats
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- dash salt
- 1/4 cup butter, cut into pieces
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 375° Fahrenheit, and spray a 13×9 sultry dish with non-stick cooking spray.
- Wash and dry the pears, then slice vertically lanugo the part-way of each pear.
- Use a melon baller or a spoon to spoon out the seeds and create a small section to fill with the topping. I moreover like to cut off a small section in the when of each pear to help them lay unappetizing in the sultry dish.
- Place the pears in the prepared sultry dish.
- In a medium bowl, whisk together the brown sugar, flour, oats, cinnamon, and salt.
- Toss the pieces of butter in with the ingredients and use a pastry blender, two knives, your fingers, or anything else to cut the butter in until the mixture is crumbly.
- Sprinkle the topping evenly over the pears in the prepared sultry dish.
- Bake in preheated oven for 35-40 minutes until pears are fork tender.
- Serve with ice surf on top and/or a drizzle of honey for uneaten sweetness!
