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Pears baked in pastry

Gabriela Lupu

pear baked in pastry

Yesterday, I tested one of the recipes I want to do for Christmas. Easy to make,  this cozy dessert has plenty of “wow” factor and it looks like a beehive.

This is an elegant dessert and is fancy enough for a dinner party and also can be made ahead.

pear baked in pastry

Ingredients:

  • 4 small pears
  • 4 cups water
  • 2 cups sugar
  • 1 cup honey
  • 50 ml cognac (optional)
  • 1 small lemon, halved
  • 3 cinnamon sticks (3 inches)
  • 1 teaspoon nutmeg
  • 6 to 8 whole cloves
  • 1 vanilla bean
  • 1 sheet frozen puff pastry, thawed
  • 1 egg

pear baked in pastry

Directions:

Peel pears and core pears from bottom, leaving stems intact. 

In a large saucepan, combine the water, sugar, honey, lemon halves, cinnamon, nutmeg, cognac and cloves. Split vanilla bean and scrape seeds; add bean and seeds to sugar mixture. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat; place pears on their sides in saucepan and poach, uncovered, for 18-22 minutes or until pears are almost tender, basting occasionally with poaching liquid.

Remove pears with a slotted spoon and cool slightly. Cook the liquid until is thick and syrupy, about 10-15 minutes.

Unfold puff pastry on a lightly floured surface. Cut into 2 cm – wide strips. Starting at the bottom of a pear, wrap a pastry strip around pear, adding additional strips until pear is completely wrapped in pastry. Repeat with remaining pears and puff pastry.

Transfer into a baking pan line with parchment paper.  Beat the egg and brush the pastry with it. Bake at 220 degrees Celsius for 20-25 minutes or until golden brown.  Place pears on dessert plates and drizzle with syrup. Serve warm.

pear baked in pastry

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Published by Gabriela Lupu

Hi. My name is Gabi and I am a professional photographer, a new mom and a wife. I wanna learn to cook healthy food for my little one, so I made this blog to share my cooking experiments with everyone. It's gone be a long and a bumpy ride but a funny one, so stay tune for news and enjoy my ride.

206 thoughts on “Pears baked in pastry”

  2. I can’t wait to try these. I will make them for Christmas when my entire family is here. They are absolutely beautiful! Your new camera lens must have been fun to experiment with while photographing this dessert.

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  9. Omg! this looks so amazing! and it looks so beautiful… beautiful and detailed recipe.. amazing blog post.. defo have to try out this recipe 😀

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  19. They really do look awesomely delicious. I think I will have to keep an eye on what you have to offer on this blog. Thanks for your visit to mine 🙂

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  40. They certainly do have wow factor. I hope it doesn’t sound to rude to say the first thing I thought when I saw them was that we could pull the pin out the top and then lob the rest at enemy trenches. I’ll bet they are delicious and always go with a bang. 🙂

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